Location
Holiday Inn Denver Lakewood
7390 W Hampden Ave, Lakewood, CO 80227
Denny's
3580 S Wadsworth Blvd, Lakewood, CO 80235
In Attendance
Chad
Khalis
Andrew
Mike S.
Cindy
Derek
Accounting - Chad has info from Adam and it will be posted separately. Briefly discussed available funds for Reef Ed
Science fair - $500 allotted to it.
Reef Ed
Sat april 12th
Chad will be there all day
Derek will be there all day
Need confirmation on who else will be in attendance
Discussion of For sale threads when poster might be a business.
Need to not be so hasty when making decisions about closing for sell threads.Whats is a business? Need new definition.
Have a business license
Shipping out of state
Frag tankPossible to come up with a list of items and if someone meets a certain number of items on the list they will be considered a business.
Summer BBQ - Further discussion on if we do a DBTC meeting at this event as well.
Future planned meetings.
April - reef ed
May - dbtc
June - great white
July - aquamart
Aug - No planned MASC meeting (due to MACNA which will not count as a MASC meeting)
Sept - bbq - book park now
Oct - aquatic art
Nov - frag swap - need to book in May/June
Dec - dinner/tbd
VBulletin5 upgrade
Need to createa full dev environment to do the upgrade than we would leave it to test with. There have been significant difficulties in trying to create a test environment in the past.
Derek believes he has a way to set up the test environment, but this would involve duplicating the existing forums prior to upgrading. Previously Derek was trying to upgrade and make a test environment at the same time which does not appear to work.
Discussion on promoting articles to improve the quality of information on the forum for everyone.
Create a new group of Article contributers
New title
New forum
Contributers could post new threads. Bod would move it articles to the new forumOnly the original poster will be able to edit the article, but everyone would be able to post and comment to discuss the article
Need to create classifications. Scientifically proven, personal exp, etc. for the different types of articles.
Masc member card discounts - We need to post which sponsor's give discounts to MASC members.
This will be posted in the Sponsor list and under the Sponsor's forum description.
Check what was decided on sponsor donations. Is there a limit on the amount of gift cards they can donate or hard goods?
Check what was decided on sponsorship levels. Do some levels that are not used very frequently need to be removed to make sponsorship simpler to understand?
*** unable to find information except for May 2013 and Oct 2013 BOD meeting minutes where it states the BOD needs future discussion on sponsorship levels.
Discussion of requiring a post limit before a user can create a thread in the For Sale forum. Many options were discussed. The board decided that a user must have been registered on the forum for 14 days and have at least 25 posts before they will be able to make a for sale thread.
Check character limit settings for post requirements. Thought to be 3 characters at the time. May discuss increasing it to prevent posts that simply say "Cool" or "Pics Brah".
*** Currently set to no requirement, however there is a VBulletin requirement that users must always enter at least 1 character.
Discussion of changing the icon for Members to read "Supporter" instead of "Member". This would have no effect on the requirements to become a member or change anything at all except the graphic. At this time the BOD decided to leave the graphic as is.Discussion on more ways to become a member.
750 posts in a calendar year.
Club comunity service. Donate time to run booth at meetings, etc.
Check forums settings and availability auto promote based on time and posts count. Confirmed we can auto promote to the membership level based on total number of posts, but unsure if we can include a time range as well. This presents significant difficulties in auditing of members.
***Current ways to auto promote are based on Total post count, # of days registered, and Reputation level or any combination of the 3.
Decided all forum users that have 750 posts already will be promoted to member rank till Jan 1, 2015.
Discussion of Banned users
Mike has resigned as a current member of the BOD effective immediately.
Cindy has resigned as a current member of the BOD effective immediately.
Holiday Inn Denver Lakewood
7390 W Hampden Ave, Lakewood, CO 80227
Denny's
3580 S Wadsworth Blvd, Lakewood, CO 80235
In Attendance
Chad
Khalis
Andrew
Mike S.
Cindy
Derek
Accounting - Chad has info from Adam and it will be posted separately. Briefly discussed available funds for Reef Ed
Science fair - $500 allotted to it.
Reef Ed
Sat april 12th
Chad will be there all day
Derek will be there all day
Need confirmation on who else will be in attendance
Discussion of For sale threads when poster might be a business.
Need to not be so hasty when making decisions about closing for sell threads.Whats is a business? Need new definition.
Have a business license
Shipping out of state
Frag tankPossible to come up with a list of items and if someone meets a certain number of items on the list they will be considered a business.
Summer BBQ - Further discussion on if we do a DBTC meeting at this event as well.
Future planned meetings.
April - reef ed
May - dbtc
June - great white
July - aquamart
Aug - No planned MASC meeting (due to MACNA which will not count as a MASC meeting)
Sept - bbq - book park now
Oct - aquatic art
Nov - frag swap - need to book in May/June
Dec - dinner/tbd
VBulletin5 upgrade
Need to createa full dev environment to do the upgrade than we would leave it to test with. There have been significant difficulties in trying to create a test environment in the past.
Derek believes he has a way to set up the test environment, but this would involve duplicating the existing forums prior to upgrading. Previously Derek was trying to upgrade and make a test environment at the same time which does not appear to work.
Discussion on promoting articles to improve the quality of information on the forum for everyone.
Create a new group of Article contributers
New title
New forum
Contributers could post new threads. Bod would move it articles to the new forumOnly the original poster will be able to edit the article, but everyone would be able to post and comment to discuss the article
Need to create classifications. Scientifically proven, personal exp, etc. for the different types of articles.
Masc member card discounts - We need to post which sponsor's give discounts to MASC members.
This will be posted in the Sponsor list and under the Sponsor's forum description.
Check what was decided on sponsor donations. Is there a limit on the amount of gift cards they can donate or hard goods?
Check what was decided on sponsorship levels. Do some levels that are not used very frequently need to be removed to make sponsorship simpler to understand?
*** unable to find information except for May 2013 and Oct 2013 BOD meeting minutes where it states the BOD needs future discussion on sponsorship levels.
Discussion of requiring a post limit before a user can create a thread in the For Sale forum. Many options were discussed. The board decided that a user must have been registered on the forum for 14 days and have at least 25 posts before they will be able to make a for sale thread.
Check character limit settings for post requirements. Thought to be 3 characters at the time. May discuss increasing it to prevent posts that simply say "Cool" or "Pics Brah".
*** Currently set to no requirement, however there is a VBulletin requirement that users must always enter at least 1 character.
Discussion of changing the icon for Members to read "Supporter" instead of "Member". This would have no effect on the requirements to become a member or change anything at all except the graphic. At this time the BOD decided to leave the graphic as is.Discussion on more ways to become a member.
750 posts in a calendar year.
Club comunity service. Donate time to run booth at meetings, etc.
Check forums settings and availability auto promote based on time and posts count. Confirmed we can auto promote to the membership level based on total number of posts, but unsure if we can include a time range as well. This presents significant difficulties in auditing of members.
***Current ways to auto promote are based on Total post count, # of days registered, and Reputation level or any combination of the 3.
Decided all forum users that have 750 posts already will be promoted to member rank till Jan 1, 2015.
Discussion of Banned users
Mike has resigned as a current member of the BOD effective immediately.
Cindy has resigned as a current member of the BOD effective immediately.