Messages in ICG #boardofdirectors (Slack) <2019-10-16 2019-10-18>
2019-10-17
Vicky
Assarattanakul 4:22 PM
From Yahoo:
As
a guild treasurer, I would like somehow to be reminded by email to submit my
report. I think it would also be nice to get a positive "look at
this" anytime a poll or similar is posted. I don't mind going to a web
site to check things out, but if it's something I need to see, I'd rather have
a notice of it. I don't feel a need to go to Slack for all the in-fighting I
can't even vote on when it gets to that point.
Martha, BRCG
[1 reply Last reply 2019-10-17 4:33 PM]
Jacalyn Boggs 2 years ago
Martha, reminders can be set up in Slack. If all the treasures have their own
channel, they can set it up there. There’s also personal to do’s and
reminders, and more.
Vicky
Assarattanakul 4:23 PM
Several chapters have local only members who want to be part of a chapter but
not the ICG.Let those who do not wish to submit the
required information be considered Local Only and do not get the any of the
benefits available for ICG members. That would include not being a member of a
SIG as that requires an ICG membership first. That is the best way to deal with
this then for going forward. The dues for those people can then be refunded as
they are Local Only but not an ICG member.
Jeanine
[2 replies Last reply 2019-10-17 4:25 PM]
Vicky Assarattanakul 2 years ago
This seems reasonable
Merrily
GCFCG
Vicky Assarattanakul 2 years ago
The Pups have several local members and this works for us.
Byron
Vicky
Assarattanakul 4:35 PM
Here is a brief summary about archiving ICG Yahoo Groups to keep the Board up
to date. A more detailed message is posted on the ICG-TW Yahoo Group.
I
developed technology to capture Yahoo Group posts several years ago, and have captured
the entire ICG-BOD message stream in a presentation format that enables viewing
in a web browser, and in a machine-readable format that could enable us to
import them into another platform eventually.
This
capture technology could be used to capture messages for any of the other ICG
Yahoo Groups. The automation works slowly because Yahoo tries to detect and
prevent doing this. I have asked ICG-TW group members to suggest priorities for
capturing the other ICG Yahoo groups.
Capturing
polls is harder and requires hand work because they are not regularly numbered.
I
have all of them through early 2019, and will set up to capture any since then.
Luckily we do not run polls that often, and the poll results are announced in
messages on ICG-BOD, so we have a backup record.
I
have not found a way to automatically capture ICG BOD working files yet, but
have posted several ideas to ICG-TW for discussion.
I
will let you know if there are any significant developments. For now, the good
news is we have the messages and polls, which are the minutes board
discussions.
-Phil
[5 replies Last reply 2019-10-17 4:36 PM]
Vicky Assarattanakul 2 years ago
That is very good news. Thanks Phil.
Cordially,
Mera Babineaux
Vicky Assarattanakul 2 years ago
Thank you Phil
Merrily
GCFCG
Vicky Assarattanakul 2 years ago
Another brilliant mind at work. I wouldn't even know where to begin trying to
do something like that. Thanks!
---
Elaine Sims
Cattails Bookkeeping Services, LLC
Vicky Assarattanakul 2 years ago
Phil —Thank you. This is useful to know.Byron
Vicky Assarattanakul 2 years ago
Additional information. The archiving method Phil uses can only
archive "public" groups. He was able to get ICG-BOD
because it was a "custom" group that allows non-member reading He
tried archiving a small restricted group which did not work. That means that
this method cannot archive any administrative groups, such as ICG-Finance,
because non-members can't read the posts. We will need to look for a
different solution for those groups. We cannot change a restricted group to an
open one after the fact, and the setting to allow non-member reading is not
available on those groups either.
Kathe (for Phil)
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Betsy
R. Marks 5:48
PM
I am in the process of testing out software called PG Offline (http://www.personalgroupware.com/).
So far, I've downloaded all the messages related to two of my theatre groups,
but not the additional content. The second group is downloading now.
personalgroupware.com
PG Offline - Download
Yahoo Groups, Messages, Files and Photos
PG
Offline downloads Yahoo Groups, Messages, Files and Photos.
Betsy
R. Marks 5:49
PM
If this works, I'm going to download the Run A CC group next. I already grabbed
all the files manually (there weren't that many). I suggest the Tech Committee
look at this tool. It may do what we need for the ICG-D and other related lists
(ICG-A, ICG-G, ICG-PUB, etc.)
[1 reply Last reply 2019-10-18 6:08 AM]
Jacalyn Boggs 2
years ago
Goodness how many yahoo groups does the ICG have? I guess I’m lucky I even knew
about the BOD.
Betsy
R. Marks 6:14
PM
And as I'm a member of the groups above, I'm happy to do the work, as long as I
know where the archive will go once I have it downloaded. At the moment, my
main computer's hard drive is close to maxed out, and it's going with me to
Karen's tomorrow.
Betsy
R. Marks 6:17
PM
On a separate but related topic: Private appears to be the default for adding
channels to Slack when one is not an admin. If that's true, would an admin
please add the following public channel [siw-communications-committee]
and please archive the private channel I created? I don't see any reason to
restrict the conversation to my chapter, especially when the results of said
conversation might prove useful to other chapters in the same boat we are. If
it's possible, I'd love to have that channel created tonight, but if it has to
wait, I'll deal.
[2 replies Last reply 2019-10-21 7:02 PM]
Jeanine Swick 2 years ago
It has been taken care of.
Betsy R. Marks 2 years ago
Thanks, Jeanine! Very much appreciated!
Betsy
R. Marks 6:17
PM
Thank you in advance for your assistance!
Lorien Fletcher 8:05 PM
Lorien Fletcher
10/17/2019
Time Travelers Costume Guild, TTCG (Portland Oregon) often has members who pay
dues on our online square account or at a meeting and then do not fill out our
online google membership form in a timely fashion.FYI
this is what we have devised: NEW Membership Form (change contact info):
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfGnEmDkBNf9AsHIeqp1frAj7GCZs4D1diJXbA4t04ZzMD8Mg/viewform
RENEWALs/PAYMENT: https://squareup.com/store/time-travelers-costume-guild
We do our best to follow up with these people
who do not fill out the form- especially those who have dropped off our roles
and then "renew" and do not fill out a new form...and get their full
information, including street address and…
Lorien Fletcher 8:17 PM
I
send a monthly e-mail newsletter to all of our members that also has a
membership card with their renew date. Here is Oct. 2019 in .pdf form:
[TTCG Costume News Oct
2019.pdf]