Jan 07 Meeting

[Isotel]

Great turn out for the meeting! we filled the room up and got a good amount accomplished!

We had 1 new member Join, as well as one member interested, I hope to see you guys on a trail ride or another meeting soon, and Welcome to the club

Elections where held!
Vic Is still the President
Andy is still the Vise President
Mark was Elected Treasure
Jeff was Elected TLCA Representative
and i (Trevor) was elected Secretary

We Planned our First Trail Run
February Sat 24th we are going to China Wall (and/or another trail in that area)
More details to follow

Trip Planning - We are going to have a Trip planning meeting for those interested Next Tuesday the 23rd.. Location - Village Inn west of I-25 on Garden of the Gods...
The Plan is to Hash out some ideas on where we want to go this year, put together a tentative trip plan, then next meeting we will finalize everything..

Andy is going to be working on Clothing for our club thru cafepress.com, Mark already has found some stickers!

I am working with Darryl to do some work on the web page, and possible change of our web host! (based on the numbers ive seen in the Secretary's reports it looks like we are paying $13 a month for hosting) We could go thru another company or i could host the site with my host for about $5 a month.. UP to $10 a month if we end up using more bandwidth at a later date!

I am also working on New Cards to hand out to intrested members, or place on trucks.. We will vote on a design next meeting..


Overall great meeting, i am enthused and excited about this year, i think its going to be a good one for our club!

Trevor

[LCPilot]

I didn't say it at the meting but I think that most people that were there have the same feelings.

Thank you to the officers of the club for the service that you have put forth this last year. At times you all have wondered why you have done it and I am sure your families have asked the same. The members of the club do appreciate your efforts.

David Molter

[nensha]

Originally Posted by isotel

Trip Planning - We are going to have a Trip planning meeting for those interested Next Tuesday the 23rd.. (unsure of the location, PM Me if you know and i will update this)..

Village Inn west of I-25 on Garden of the Gods.

Originally Posted by isotel

I am working with Darryl to do some work on the web page, and possible change of our web host! (based on the numbers ive seen in the Secretary's reports it looks like we are paying $13 a month for hosting) We could go thru another company or i could host the site with my host for about $5 a month.. UP to $10 a month if we end up using more bandwidth at a later date!

I strongly suggest against a member (nothing against Trever) host the club's web site. This is just not a good business decision for the club (or any other small or non-profit organization). If there is a problem with hosting the club really doesn't have any recourse and is at the mercy of the person (or company). These days good hosting is pretty easy to find and very cheap. This opinion comes from the been-there-done-that school of hard knocks.

I've been very happy with my company (http://www.site5.com). They are currently offering a package that the club will never out grow (or have to pay for extra band width). For $5 a month you get: 55 GB of disk space, 5 TB (yup that's terabytes) of month band width and can host up to 55 domains (web sites, not that that really matters). Plus, they have the best tech support that I have found. They also guarantee 99.9% up time (that's money back).

[Isotel]

site5 sounds good, Ive been with about 5-6 different hosts in my days of webhosting, I used to go with the $5 a month Deals and found that i could never get the uptime, and customer support that the Extra $ was worth, Ive finaly found a company that treets me good, and at $25 a month i cant complain.. Soooo many of these companys are flyby night setups.. We will figure it out down the road, i guess it could be consiterd a conflict of intrest..

Thx for the Location Jeff!

Trevor