SMUG - INTRODUCING NEW OFFICERS

SMUG - INTRODUCING NEW OFFICERS



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Date: October November, 1992

Keywords: bureaucracy

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Jim Householder:  
President and Contributing Editor
Just a note... 
The SMUG mailing list currently contains about 80 names of whom about
20 are paid members.  Our cost per mailing is around $28.00.  All this
puts us on a slippery slope and impels us to remind our members to pay
their dues.  Some folks on our SMUG mailing list may have moved on to
other interests; we would appreciate  your call (Jim Householder
839-0551) asking to be dropped from the list if you are one of them.

Joe Duroux: 
Board member and Contributing Editor
My job is to collect material for the newsletter from outside sources,
transcribe or assemble it in electronic form, and get it to Casey
Meaden who will do the final assembly and publication. In this issue, I
have copied four reviews and one related article from recent issues of
the Macintosh Users of Delaware Newsletter. In the future, we hope to
be writing our own reviews and other articles. If you know of anything
that you think would be of interest to the members, please write it up
and get it to me or Steve Kayner or Casey, preferably on  floppy disc,
in ''text only'' form.

Stephen Kayner: 
News from the Secretary/Treasurer:
The October 13 meeting of the Se-quoia Macintosh Users' Group was
preceded by a brief meeting of some of the SMUG Officers. Jim
Householder (President), Joe Duroux (Con-tributing Editor), and myself
(Steve Kayner) were present to discuss the forward direction of the
User Group. All of the Officers are now current with their dues, and we
are working to make SMUG worth joining. Our initial focus will be to
expand the Newsletter by using articles selected from other Macintosh
User Groups around the country. If you know of a MUG (Macintosh User
Group) you would like us to exchange with, please bring contact
information to the next meeting, or phone it in to me at 445-3454.
Another way we intend to expand the newsletter is to get software from
publishers who would like their products reviewed in the SMUG
newsletter. If you know of some interesting products that you would
like to review in the newsletter, please bring the address or phone
number of the publisher to the next SMUG meeting, or call me with that
info at the above phone number. Only paid members will be eligible for
writing these reviews, and receipt of the free software. We hope that
our efforts will bring in enough products that we can fill our
newsletter with ''homegrown'' articles and reviews, rather than
material gleaned from other MUG newsletters.
We also encourage members to submit articles of any length on any
Macintosh subject for publishing in our newsletter. If you've longed to
be a published author, now is your chance. Write about how you use your
Mac, interesting hardware or software you have used, or tell us what
you would like to see in future operating systems or computers. Tell us
why you think the Mac is better than those ''other'' computers, or tell
us what you would like us to write about. Together, we are the ones who
make the User Group a worthwhile experience.
A visitor at our last meeting asked if he could attend the meeting
without paying dues. The answer: Heck yes! We're glad to have you! We
do hope that some of you will want to contribute to our efforts to make
the User Group a vital resource for the Macintosh community, and to
expand the services we can provide to our membership.
We understand that students may not feel that the regular $20.00
membership contribution is fair for someone who may only be in town for
part of the year, so we are reducing student membership to $10.00 per
calendar year.
On another track, Safeway is continuing their ''Apples for Students''
program. Cash register receipts can be exchanged for hardware and
software from Apple. It takes a lot of receipts to get these products,
so if you shop at Safeway, and would otherwise discard your receipts,
bring them to me at the User Group meetings, and I will collect them.
The receipts will be presented to a school chosen by members of SMUG,
when the deadline (March 6, 1993) nears.
According to records I've inherited as SMUG treasurer, the Sequoia
Macintosh Users' Group has been in existance since 1985. That's over 49
years (in dog time)! The Officers of the User Group feel a
responsibilty to continue this tradition of providing a local Macintosh
resource. If anyone within the sound of these words knows the location
of the SMUG Charter or Bylaws, I would like to get a copy of them, so I
know what we can do, and what we are supposed to do. Please bring info
regarding these documents to the next meeting, or call me at the above
phone number.
Let us know what you are willing to do to serve the User Group, and let
us know what we can do to better serve you and the community. And
thanks for being members.
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