ICGS Meeting Summary
Date: March 19, 2003
Place: Red Room Bar and Restaurant, Dodgeville, WI
Present: Mark Perry, Peggy Perry, Cheryl Schmidt, Dawn Phelan, Kathy Stoltz
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Mail was passed around the table to the appropriate recipient
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Secretary’s report was given.
Motion by Kathy, 2nd by Dawn to approve
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Treasurer’s report: nothing to report this month. The new program is not working out as hoped.
Will be looking at converting the data into an Excel spreadsheet vs.
using an actual financial computer program.
- Upcoming Meetings:
o April 2003 – Dawn’s home
o May 2003 – Pleasant Ridge store
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June 2003 – Mark and Peggy’s home
- Projects and their status
o Library – nothing new
o Moscow book – Dawn’s computer crashed and she lost all the scanning that she had accomplished. On the plus side, she has a new and better computer now and has the scanning process down so it shouldn’t take her long to recreate and finish the scanning
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Probate – Kathy and Cheryl turned in more files that
they completed the indexing on
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ICGS has a new website address! We now have our own domain address hosted by friendsnfamily.net.
Our new address is: http://www.wiiowagensoc.org
This all came about because friendsnfamily.net discontinued allowing search
engines for individual sites. They
were having problems with speed and bandwidth and found that the search engine
spiders were the cause. After some
pleading on our part, they saw our dilema and put our site onto a different
server where we could still have our own search engine.
Our own domain name came to be because our site address had to be different
on the different server. It’s free
and it works – that works for us!
- Membership numbers were again discussed tonight. Kathy’s email helped tremendously to boost our numbers – but we’re still quite a bit shy of last year. Peggy sent out a note just yesterday (again) via email and snail mail to the non-internet members from last year and hopes to generate even more responses. Without these renewals, we would not have had enough money to cover the basic newsletter expenses if we were still printing and snail mailing them!