NW Mac Pro March 30, 2012 Meeting Minutes
In attendance
Steve Sorbo, Matt Duett, Mike Ross, Scott Neal, Shelley Watson, Chris Dawe, Tim Hannon, Peter Haigh, Stephen Magladry, Noah Patton, John Newhoff, Greg Ashworth, Gordon Davisson, John Nelson, Tim Pritchard
Introductions
Matt Duett – Duett Technologies, IT manager of 200 client networks, 10 years of experience, located in Bellingham
Peter Haigh – residential and SOHO Redmond, started 1981, Linux, Mac, Windows
Noah Patton – President of Universl Mac – 350 Exchange launch. Business and Enterprise, ACN advisory council – can share knowledge and can pass our concerns onto Apple.
Steve Magladry – Bothell, provides residential and small business support. Joined LinkedIn group online.
Mike Ross – Digital Designs – Olympia, Tacoma and south of it. ACN member. Certified FMPro Developer
Greg Ashworth, President of iDigital – focuses on small business, home business and residential customers. video system, video editing, SAN, large format printers, home theatre, home security systems. Couple of employees, store front in Bothell around late June. Hardare sales and support. near wew Bothell Safeway Center and Uncle’s Pizza.
Scott Neil – progammer since Apple II 1978. Speaker, author, consultant. Portland-based, Apple trainer. iOS, OS X, Java, automation, applescripts, webobjects
Shelly Watson – Focuses on small and medium businesses, also some enterprise clients. Lightspeed POS certified.
John Newhoff – 4D and FMPro development, 4 on the team, vertical market product for school district.
John Neison – iOS developer
Tim Pritchard – Seattle-based. Focuses on small office and home office customers.
Gordon Davisson – trainer for Crywolf in Seattle
Primary Discussion
Discuss future priorities and focus for Northwest Mac Pro
Shelley started NW Mac Pro in 2005 – as a networking and support group for consultants, developers, trainers, etc in the northwest region.
It has been focused on relationships between Mac professionals (tech to tech)
It has met monthly or quarterly
Meeting duration has varied from 1 hour to several hours.
Should we add a Mac professional to client focus? If so, what would that look like?
Tim and Steve shared some draft ideas and solicited feedback from the group. New ideas were suggested and discussed.
Planning committee volunteers will review all input and determine next steps.
