General Membership Meeting Minutes May 16, 2020 – Virtual Meeting

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May 19, 2020 at 2:57 pm #2065
Russell Albright
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Meeting held online with video conferencing, called to order at 10:03am with board members Ron Kearns, Russell Albright ll, Dennis Gorley, Dennis Simpson, Mark DeMonbrun and Jerry Galland in attendance.
A total of 24 people attending.

Ron Kearns called the meeting to order at 10:00am
We opened the meeting with Trever Waltos leading us in the Santa Claus Oath.
Ron Kearns updated everyone on the progress being made for the annual conference in October. We are still planning for it and will know more after the lodge opens back up in a few weeks.

Russell Albright put up some interactive polls.

Poll Questions:
1. Knowing what you know now, will you be attending the conference?
  1. Yes (13) – 65%
  2. No (7) – 35%
2. When should we have the next meeting?
  1. In 2 weeks (12) – 57%
  2. In 3 weeks (1) – 5%
  3. In 4 weeks (8) – 38%
3. What time should we do the next meeting?
  1. Earlier 9am (1) – 5%
  2. Same time 10am (11) – 52%
  3. Later 11am (5) – 24%
  4. Later noon (4) – 19%
4. How are you getting the notifications (multiple choice)
  1. Emails (17) – 94%
  2. Facebook (6) – 39%
  3. Message Board (5) – 33%
  4. Website (3) – 17%
  5. Not (1) – 6%
Jerry Galland and Russell presented a demonstration of how to add virtual backdrops to your Zoom meetings.

Shown were searching the internet for royalty free-to-use photos or videos, selecting and saving it in a folder and how to use the Video Settings feature in Zoom to add those graphics to the available library.

Also shown were the backdrops that Russell and Jerry G have set up behind them in their offices. Green screen and blue screen are good options for Chroma key blanking out of real background.

Russell showed his fabric backdrop and how it is used instead of a virtual backdrop.

Several members offered great advice and shared how they have used virtual meetings for Santa visits.

Jim Beidle talked about an option to Zoom, he is using Open Broadcast Software. This is another free app that has many more features.

Next general meeting scheduled for June

We took a group photo.

Group Chat:

From Jim Beidle to Everyone: 10:17 AM
- I have a text file that lists several royalty-free websites. I’ll share that once I figure out where I stashed it.
From Dan AKA Mr Kringle to Everyone: 10:25 AM
- Does it with a green, blue screen
From Jerry Galland to Everyone: 10:27 AM
From Dan AKA Mr Kringle to Everyone: 10:27 AM
- Our place is very small I just hung a pipe
From Jim Beidle to Everyone: 10:33 AM
- I will have to reconstruct that file, y’all. I was supposed to be handy on my desktop, lol!
From Dan AKA Mr Kringle to Everyone: 10:34 AM
- Very clever backdrop
From Jerry Nebel to Everyone: 10:45 AM
- I’m using a $45.00 green screen and logiteck camera with microphone. My experience from years that I Skyped with kids in Ireland in most cases just being able to see and hear you is what carry’s thru. After all you at the North Pole really on the edge of internet reception.
From Gene Sanders to Everyone: 11:08 AM
- backdropsandfloors.com 52% off right now
From Jim Beidle to Everyone: 11:10 AM
- Can you throw up a quick poll for that? reception. e of internet reception.
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