From communications at marinbees.org Sun Aug 3 17:50:18 2025 From: communications at marinbees.org (Jim Lawson) Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2025 16:50:18 -0700 Subject: [board] draft version of July/August newsletter Message-ID: Please find attached a draft of the July/August version of the newsletter. Comments and suggestions welcome. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 2025.07.31_Newsletter.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 3217284 bytes Desc: not available URL: From communications at marinbees.org Mon Aug 4 17:57:57 2025 From: communications at marinbees.org (Jim Lawson) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2025 16:57:57 -0700 Subject: [board] draft version of July/August newsletter (v 2) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <6B682CD1-8B05-4B8A-9809-804C79FA32B7@marinbees.org> I've updated the draft version to: - add David's equipment notice, - add Malcolm's financial summary, - reformatted the financials so they fit on a page. 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Name: 2025.07.31_Newsletter.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 3601313 bytes Desc: not available URL: From communications at marinbees.org Tue Aug 5 09:52:01 2025 From: communications at marinbees.org (Jim Lawson) Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2025 08:52:01 -0700 Subject: [board] board email held for moderation Message-ID: Please excuse the late email distribution containing draft versions of the next newsletter. These were held for moderation due to size and although I should have received notification that such was the case, for some unexplained reason, I didn't. From communications at marinbees.org Tue Aug 5 15:46:20 2025 From: communications at marinbees.org (Jim Lawson) Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2025 14:46:20 -0700 Subject: [board] newsletter final (?) draft - v 4 Message-ID: <7776FE59-EA7A-4773-BEB4-2F628EF04E09@marinbees.org> Please find attached v 4 of the July/August newsletter. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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I'll bring wine and appetizers. I'd like to put the following items on the agenda: - web-site updates ("minor" swarm list changes), - move mailing lists from emwd/Affinity to BlueHost (save $300/yr), - upgrade hosting from current shared server to private server (possibly move to new provider), - major web-site changes (clean up "users" and allow members to maintain authentication credentials on the web-site) - maintain membership database on web-site (could be part of CRM integration) - support for equipment requests/management - support for new swarm list protocol > On Aug 26, 2025, at 11:27 AM, Jennifer Berry wrote: > > Hi Folks, > We have our board meeting this week. Please let me know if you will plan to be in person (at my house) or need to Zoom in. 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URL: From jrobinberry at gmail.com Wed Aug 27 10:27:34 2025 From: jrobinberry at gmail.com (Jennifer Robin Berry) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2025 09:27:34 -0700 Subject: [board] Board meeting this Thursday at 7 In-Reply-To: <2340A048-9635-4964-88DC-2C9435A0F386@marinbees.org> References: <2340A048-9635-4964-88DC-2C9435A0F386@marinbees.org> Message-ID: Great, Jim! And Malcolm is in person too. How about the rest of you who haven't chimed in yet- Jed will you make it in person? Robert? Mia? Jennifer Berry 1 (415) 205-7440 On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 1:01?PM Jim Lawson wrote: > I'm planning on attending in person. I'll bring wine and appetizers. > > I'd like to put the following items on the agenda: > - web-site updates ("minor" swarm list changes), > - move mailing lists from emwd/Affinity to BlueHost (save $300/yr), > - upgrade hosting from current shared server to private server (possibly > move to new provider), > - major web-site changes (clean up "users" and allow members to maintain > authentication credentials on the web-site) > - maintain membership database on web-site (could be part of CRM > integration) > - support for equipment requests/management > - support for new swarm list protocol > > On Aug 26, 2025, at 11:27 AM, Jennifer Berry > wrote: > > Hi Folks, > We have our board meeting this week. Please let me know if you will plan > to be in person (at my house) or need to Zoom in. 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How about the rest of you who haven't chimed in yet- Jed will you make it in person? Robert? Mia?? Jennifer Berry 1 (415) 205-7440 On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 1:01?PM Jim Lawson wrote: I'm planning on attending in person. I'll bring wine and appetizers. I'd like to put the following items on the agenda:?- web-site updates ("minor" swarm list changes),?- move mailing lists from emwd/Affinity to BlueHost (save $300/yr),?- upgrade hosting from current shared server to private server (possibly move to new provider),?- major web-site changes (clean up "users" and allow members to maintain authentication credentials on the web-site)? ?- maintain membership database on web-site (could be part of CRM integration)? ?- support for equipment requests/management? ?- support for new swarm list protocol On Aug 26, 2025, at 11:27 AM, Jennifer Berry wrote: Hi Folks,?We have our board meeting this week. Please let me know if you will plan to be in person (at my house) or need to Zoom in. And send your agenda items by Wednesday evening, please.?Thanks -- Jennifer BerryMBCA Presidenthttps://marinbeekeepers.org/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "board" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to board+unsubscribe at marinbees.org. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/a/marinbees.org/d/msgid/board/CALeMkpNnMgbYMrnxCcjzwhAc9mwO3SEpGqUAAQrBq97EjYxkvw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/a/marinbees.org/d/optout. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From president at marinbees.org Thu Aug 28 20:49:19 2025 From: president at marinbees.org (Jennifer Berry) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 19:49:19 -0700 Subject: [board] Questions about website and swarm report system Message-ID: Hi there, am I reaching Carol? We at the Marin county board are working on updating how we manage our swarm response for the public. We have a number of questions we'd like to ask your club. Would you be up for chatting with us some time in the next few weeks? We have our regular meetings on the last Thursday of the month at 7:30 but we could be flexible and do a call other times. -- Jennifer Berry MBCA President https://marinbeekeepers.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jrobinberry at gmail.com Thu Aug 28 21:59:19 2025 From: jrobinberry at gmail.com (Jennifer Robin Berry) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 20:59:19 -0700 Subject: [board] Wifi connection for the Log Cabin Message-ID: Hi Sue, We're considering having a few meetings where our speakers join us via Zoom. How is the connectiving for wifi there? Is there a password for us to join? Thanks Jennifer Berry 1 (415) 205-7440 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From president at sonomabees.org Thu Aug 28 22:09:44 2025 From: president at sonomabees.org (President SCBA) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 21:09:44 -0700 Subject: [board] Questions about website and swarm report system Message-ID: ?Hi Jennifer. I am Cheryl, the new SCBA President this year. Thank you for reaching out to us. I would be happy to talk with you about our swarm program and I emailed our Swarm Coordinator. who is much more experienced with our program.. I should hear something in a day or two and will get back to you. Thank you, Cheryl Koeller President sonomabees.org Sent from my iPhone On Aug 28, 2025, at 7:49?PM, Jennifer Berry wrote: ? Hi there, am I reaching Carol? We at the Marin county board are working on updating how we manage our swarm response for the public. We have a number of questions we'd like to ask your club. Would you be up for chatting with us some time in the next few weeks? 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