Tuesday 9th October No. 346, October 2012 Upstairs 7:30 AGM Review of ACTApple for the past year and discussion of the club position and plans for the coming year. 8:30 Mac Basics with Trevor You bring the questions, we’ll do the rest. Downstairs 8:30 iCloud A look at iCloud and cloud services, whether you need them, and some of the security considerations with using them. Hughes Baptist Church Hall Groom Street, Hughes Tuesday 16th October 7:30 Committee Meeting Raiders Weston Sports Club iMac, therefore iParticipate, therefore iAm! 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Trevor and Pat Kelly came down to lend a hand and we had some good one-to-one time in addition to presenting several Hi all, topics. In the end we spent 2 hours in the morning with U3A people, participating in a general iPad session which included some really October has come around pretty quickly and we’re interesting chats from their members about how they used their iPads. heading towards wrapping up a pretty eventful year for After lunch we had dedicated ACTApple sessions for around 5 hours. We ACTApple. got some new members from the day, and it was great to see some of the faces I’ve not seen for a while. All-in-all a very successful day and will Membership drive definitely be repeated. Current thinking is 3 times a year. September saw us get to the end of our membership drive with very mixed results. On the one hand we didn’t get a single new member Where to now from our “free membership” offer. Pretty disappointing on the face of The upshot of our efforts for the past few months is it, but the experience has given me a whole load of information and that I’ve got a clearer idea on where we’ll be spending perspective about where the committee will be using its limited energies our time, and why. We’ve not been as successful from this point so I’m certainly upbeat about the lessons in there for us at gathering new members in, so we’ll be seeing and confident in the next direction to take. So a negative and a positive. considerably more effort in keeping the members we The exercise itself was also used as a springboard for two other major have. We’ll be looking at other things we could be initiatives - getting iPads and iPhones onto the club agenda, and getting doing, checking our current approach, and re-visiting past work that has ACTApple back to the coast. So how did we go with those? dropped off or been left behind. I’ve been having a lot of phone chats with members, the committee has some good ideas for change, our current iDevices survey has done much to help with that (see below), and we’re certainly The September presentation night was heavily geared toward iDevices, not scratching our heads wondering what to do. including a well attended iPad session with Trevor. We had around 40 people there for the night with a dozen or so looking at the iPad with a Member numbers lot of interest. I’ve also had quite a lot of positive reaction about iPads So why all the carry-on about memberships? Well, as you’ll hear at the via email and conversation. We need to be confident about how to use the AGM, our current membership is around 165. That’s down about 25% limited resources of a small committee, so when I get clear outcomes like from where we’ve been for some time although I’m confident this is a this they are noted. Expect to see a lot more iDevices in our agenda. reversible trend ie. I don’t see the drop as indicative of the future of the group due to internet help forums etc. If that were the case we’d have Coast visit seen the impact long ago. My own research has shown clearly that it Its been years(!) since I last did a presentation on the coast, although comes down to a lack of resources on the committee ie. a lack of member Cyril Streatfield has been doing regular and well attended sessions at assistance with the to-do list. This has meant that the current committee Page 4 has been run ragged. I’m still amazed at how much I saw in progress I’ve looked at the half-way results of this current survey and I’m much when I stepped back in some months ago. Do I think we can deal with much more interested in what it has to say. As much as anything the this? Definitely. Things go by the wayside and the club looks like it process has reinforced my ongoing confidence in the current committee. doesn’t deliver value. So yes, I think that’s reversible and when we do Garry Brooke did an extremely good job getting the survey together. His then our member numbers will reflect it. egoless approach to peer review and then the ownership shown by all the committee members has without doubt produced a much better survey. The club is taking the hit in 2 main areas - financials and skill sharing. The number of responses tells me as much about the interest level of We have around $1500 less income from that drop and it brings us members for ACTApple’s future. We’ll be presenting the results at the down to around where the operational budget sits, so we’re close to the AGM. line. But our ability to purchase new hardware to ensure we can provide support is a concern. Skill sharing is affected because new members Annual General Meeting bring new skills and sometimes bring a willingness to share those skills.