North East Wisconsin Audio Society of Green Bay

Meeting Date:	10/09/2004	Start Time:
Venue(s):	Nate's
Attendees:
Nate Kern		profile / system
Greg Davies		profile / system
Jeff LaFortune		profile / system
Gene Hood		profile / system
Dan Lequia		profile / system
Brian Koehler		profile / system
Paul Fassbender		profile / system
Carl Hruza		profile / system

Minutes From Meeting (Carl Hruza)

Thanks to Nate for getting this off the ground, and thanks to everyone who attended.

The meeting served as a great spring-board for future meetings, and reaffirmed peoples interests in making this a regular event.

Nate opened by outlining his ideas for the meetings and future events, and was met with positive vibes from everyone in the room, all expressing a clear and common interest in making this a success.

The discussion developed into a brainstorming forum where people suggested ways of promoting the group and expanding the member base.

The idea of developing a website was discussed and it was agreed that having an Internet presence would be a good way to attract interest from potential members.

Goals for future meetings were discussed by the group, and it seemed to be a unanimous decision that having involvement from local retailers at future meetings would be a positive move, and also, perhaps further down the line, having involvement from equipment manufacturers.

Carl mentioned that he thought manufacturers might respond positively to any publicity that could be passed their way using the Internet, and it was agreed that using the website could facilitate this.

Several people mentioned and related to the idea of having equipment shoot-outs, and that is definitely something that will be included in future meetings.

Getting the formalities over with, we then enjoyed some very musical sounding tunes courtesy of Nate's wonderful system.

Later in the day some of us moved on to Greg's place and then later to Carl's pad.

On the whole this was a very enjoyable day, with an open and casual format.

Action Points:

Please pass along comments and ideas on the website. I've laid out some basic ideas but we need to develop new ideas and build them into the design. Of course there is a lot of content missing, but I will peck away at it over the coming weeks. Please send any suggestions to me via email at carlh@netnet.net
We touched on putting together a basic flyer that we could pin up at local retailers to promote the NEWAS - we didn't assign this for action, any volunteers?
I think I was assigned the job of talking with Chris VenHaus about a practical workshop on cable assembly. I will talk with him and report back at the next meeting.
We need an 'agenda' for future meetings and we need to formalize things a little more so that someone is assigned to take some brief notes and produce meeting minutes. Perhaps we can discuss this at the next meeting....or maybe we can just pick a volunteer like Greg, for example!
We need to assign someone to be 'liaison officer' or whatever, so we can communicate between the group effectively in between meetings, and keep the forward momentum.
We need to get another meeting date pulled together, so that everyone has sufficient time to get organized. Perhaps Nate can float some dates via email and we can start to see what does and does not work out.
Let's think about the next venue also, I'm happy to host an upcoming event, and I think it was Jeff or Dan that also expressed an interest in holding the meeting. We need to nail that down in the next couple weeks if we can.

That's all I can think of for now. I'm checking into software to empower the website with a message board and maybe a chat room facility. I thought it might be fun to hold an online chat session at some time in the future, and invite a manufacturer to join the chat at a scheduled time/date. We could open that up on AudioGon and probably get a good response.

Take Care

Carl

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