Are YOU wanting to be an Officer for the BGAMUG Computer Club?

Hi, all!

You can be a super-hero!

Because.... WE HAVE OFFICER OPENINGS!

We have two openings right now for Officer for the BGAMUG Computer Club.

One opening is Secretary, the other is Newsletter Editor.

Betsy can do both of these for awhile.... and let the other officers who have served a LONG time have a break.

If you are interested in either of these positions, let Betsy or C.G. know.

Thanks!

lizann447@yahoo.com (Elizabeth Sheppard), and
cgoilwell@aol.com (C.G. Haley)

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See you at our Regular Meeting Tonight, Aug. 23 2016. It should be fun!

Our regular monthly Member Meeting is tonight.

We will learn about Windows 10! 

This presentation is by Jeri Steele.

We meet (as usual) at Hillview Heights Church on 31-W, just a little ways from Lost River Cave, heading out of town. We meet in the back.

I may get a Windows 10 computer someday. There are some programs I like that are not available on a Mac.


--> Here is the posting from our Blogger blog:

"Excited - - our BGAMUG meeting is tonight, Tuesday, August 23rd. 6:30, Hillview Heights Church. 
Topic: Windows 10 by Jeri Steele. 

Some of you already received invitations to this meeting. 

You may get another invitation, OR a phone call from me today. We hope to see you there!

Check out our website here: http://www.bgamug.org/

And our blog here: http://bgamugbg.blogspot.com/

And Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/238044399188/"

I got this from our website - I like it!

-Betsy 

PS See you there!

Board Meeting at Jerry's Restaurant is tonight, 6:30 p.m. Interested Members can attend. More about it...

Dear my fellow BGAMUG Members,

As you probably know, the motion to DISBAND the BGAMUG Computer Club lost by only 2 votes two meetings ago.

I and C.G. Haley are calling the BGAMUG membership to find out who can step up to be Officers for the coming year. We have some neat ideas for the Club, and would like to see it continue.

We already have some Members stepping up to be Officers. We need more, plus people who can be on other Committees later on.

The Board Meeting for BGAMUG is tonight at Jerry's Restaurant near the Corvette Museum. Those who want to eat dinner there will meet at 6 there, and others will join us for the Board Meeting at 6:30.

All Members of BGAMUG are invited. In fact, you may want to attend if you want the Club to continue. Why? Because some of the Board members may be discussing others ways of disbanding the Club. Jerry Gillette sent out a memo with four kinds of decisions we could make about the BGAMUG Club.

One is keeping the club, and going on. There are 3 other choices listed. To be clear, C.G. and I want to continue the club. Everyone except one person we have called this and last week ALSO wants BGAMUG to continue.

If you can make this meeting tonight, I think it would be helpful. Please let C.G. and I know your thoughts and if you can attend. Or leave a comment! :-)
 
- E. Sheppard (Betsy)
Fellow BGAMUG Member
BGAMUG Nomination Committee for 2016-2017

PS I will be posting this at the BGAMUG Facebook Page today too. It is here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/238044399188/. Come join us! :-)

Hi again! Just checking in. Another meeting of the Nomination Committee is tonight.

Hi BGAMUG'ers!

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A REMINDER
Our next BGAMUG Meeting is TUESDAY, JULY 26th
at Hillview Heights Church

Be there or be square.

Bring a friend too if you like.

! :-)
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We have another Committee Meeting tonight. We hope to discuss our ideas with our President, Jeri S. C.G. and I will be there too.

I can't wait to share our ideas.

If you are interested in serving as an Officer, we need you! Come help this year and get the club back on track.

I'd hate for it to have to close down. I have too many friends here to just say goodbye to them. Ack.

So, hope is there. We think if everyone helps, we can start adding members again and starting to plan events, more speakers, etc. and giving the present Officers a BREAK.

Leave a comment with your thoughts. And join the blog.

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Hope things are going well for you!

Remember, We CAN do it!

Betsy Sheppard
Nomination Committee
BGAMUG Computer Club

First Meeting and Phone Calls Coming Soon! An update on our Save BGAMUG Journey...

Hi, all! Just checking in again.

I just wanted to bring you up to date on the "Save Our BGAMUG Computer Club" journey.

It's been about two weeks since I found out some of our members wanted to close down the BGAMUG Computer Club - - and since I volunteered to help call people to help by volunteering to be an Officer for next year.

Reasons for shutting the club down (disbanding) included these:

Officers are tired of being officers and sometimes doing more than one job at one time,
Not as many Members are coming to meetings, and
Not as many Members as some Officers would like.

I am not sure about what other reasons there could be.

I volunteered to help - - so am writing this blog today again. I WAS helping with the website and blogging here in the past, so am doing it again.

If you are interested in being on this Save Our Club committee (also known as the Nomination Committee) just let me know by calling me or emailing me at lizann447 at yahoo.com.

And remind me if I do NOT get back with you the same day or the next day. Because I get a LOT of emails right now. I tend to sign up for everything that interests me, and I get some other kinds of emails too.

Well, that's about it. I will find a photo or two to share here next. I think it's the right thing to do to try to save this fun club.

I have not been active in the club always, but it's nice to know this fun group is here. It's a worthy group, and worth supporting. They have done many great things in the community too. I loved the fun get-togethers and events best. They were fun!

- Betsy S.

PS: this is me. It's a kind of older photo, but still...

Hi from Betsy - - I and another member are meeting this week or next to see who to phone - - Officers are needed.

Hi, all! I saw that a bunch of people went to this blog today!

I have not posted here for a long time. I am no longer the Webmaster or an Officer, but plan to help next year. I also just volunteered to be on the Nomination Committee for the Club.

BUT I can tell you the members who attended last week's meeting voted to try to KEEP the BGAMUG group going last week. They will have another vote in a month or two about that. C.J. and I are meeting in the next couple of weeks and coming up with a plan to get more members and officers for the club.

The current officers would like to take a break. Some have been doing "double duty" for a long time. If you are interested in serving as an Officer for a year or even for an emergency basis until we find somebody else, let us know.

You can contact me at 270-779-4152 (cell phone) or by email at lizann447@yahoo.com.

I have C.J.s contact info. at home, (I'm downtown today) and will let him know right away when people contact me.

Here is a list of the officers we need:
President
VP of Membership
VP of Technology
Secretary
Program Director
Treasurer
Webmaster
Officer at Large (2)
Sergeant-at-Arms

I will be hunting down the Job Descriptions for these soon too. :-) I think I have a copy of the Constitution and ByLaws on my other computer.

Here is a link to the Newsletter and Meeting news from June. http://www.bgamug.org/june-2016-meeting-newsletter/.

If you do not hear from us a day or two after you send a message, then please phone me.

I hope you had a GREAT 4th of July!

And look for a possible call from one or both of us soon.

BGAMUG-ly Yours,
Betsy Sheppard
BGAMUG Nomination Committee Member
270-779-4152
lizann447@yahoo.com

January Meeting

At 6:30 PM on our January 27th meeting will be at Hillvue Heights Church, 3219 Nashville Road, Bowling Green, KY 42101. Our member Joe Easterling will give an introduction to Windows 10.

Our latest newsletter is at: January Newsletter

APCUG has announced that the 2015 APCUG Digital Technology Conference will be held on Sept 25-27, 2015 at the Palace Station Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, NV. See details at 2015 APCUG Digital Technology Conference