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Old Business-National Director

It was noted with some embarrassment that we haven't held a formal Executive meeting since February.  Despite that things are still in reasonably good working order.

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New Business-National Director

Long-time member Gary Barling stepped up to the plate and took on the vacant Chapter Liaison portfolio.  Gary's been very busy making and re-establishing contact with the troops.

The ND asked that Gary vet all incoming Chapter publications for possible RT material.  He will liaise directly with the Editor on this.

Jamie is sending out cheques to cover our sponsorship obligations that we've taken on recently.

Back in the summer of 2003, it appears that one John Tate of Albuquerque, NM, was overlooked by the organizers but had apparently won the Best Canadian Subject Award (for a Malta Spitfire V).  Jamie will be arranging for a traditional tankard, hopefully  for delivery to John at the US Nats in Kansas City, MO in August 2006.  John will be asked to contact IPMS/USA directly to try and arrange for the plaque award delivery.

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RT Editor

Sid has received enough material to do up the next RT, Vol 30/1.

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Treasurer

Just arrived back from a holiday in France, so no report. France, hmm?.....

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Membership/Circulation

Of 152 renewals sent out, we received, and I quote, "a whole whack of 'em back".

John has not found any viable options for reducing the postal costs using Canada Post.

We need a new type of postage meter to meet Canada Post's new rules.

Some ideas that were tossed around to deal with the postage and mailing costs were:

• could we go back to just using stamps? (no need for a postage meter)

• could we buy custom postage stickers in the denominations we need for each RT mailing? (no need for a postage meter)

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Marketing

Before we try to grow the membership, we need to get a solid handle on membership costs vs. the annual dues we charge.  Especially on foreign members, we are effectively losing money on each membership.

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Archivist

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Chapter Liaison (via e-mail)

Gary would like to get the chapter charters and other associated documents as soon as possible. 

We still have the new Hamilton, Ontario group to get chartered (to be known as the Canadian Warplane Heritage Modellers), and Gary would like to do that soon. Anything that can get those documents up here will be appreciated.

Gary will be attending the IPMS UK nationals in November, no doubt holding meetings of import with modelling diplomats the mother country. He will also be attending a meeting of IPMS Farnborough, which is now 'twinned' with IPMS Ottawa (Gary's local chapter).

Stuff we talked about while Gary wasn't there

The ND would like Gary to solicit intel from the Charter Chapters regarding which shops in their areas are 'IPMS Canada friendly'.  This is info we want to start putting on the webpage for our travelling members, and also to have a possible locations for IPMS Canada advertising.

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Webmaster

Nothing to report this month

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Secretary

Nothing to report this month.

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Back Issues

Absent this evening

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Special Projects

There was a discussion about what we were going to do about those new members who joined up after RT 29/4 was published, but who will now be receiving a free 441 Sqn Mustang decal sheet with no instructions.  It was decided that we would load up a PDF file (created by article author Dennis Weber) and make it available on the website for downloading to those members who need it, and for any other modellers who want to buy a copy of the few surplus decal sheets we are going to have left. We are not planning on printing up hard copies of either the original article or PDF file for distribution. 

With the distribution of the 441 Sqn decal sheet, Sid will be putting a note into RT 30/1 explaining what we've done and where members can get a copy of the article on the website.

We are going to proceed with a test of scanning an extinct RT volume year, to see if this is a viable means of making these issues available for sale to members and non-members.  Bob Mig and/or Jamie will scan up the volume and we'll proceed from there.  We will be consulting with member Dennis Weber as he has been a big proponent of this initiative and his experiences with creating high-quality PDF files will be valuable assets on this project.

To help spread the scanning workload around, we may approach interested and techno-savvy members to get involved with the scanning end of the project, as a way to help spread the workload around.  After we do some tests we'll be setting out the scanning parameters we'd want people to work with and see how that goes.  Of course this also means that the volunteers would have to have in their libraries complete volume years of the old RTs we are going after.

John will be checking into security and copyright protection issues that may be employed to protect our investment.

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