SDAC Chicagoland

As is tradition, the first three meetings of the year will take place at Papa’s. Looking forward to freezing our tails off in the parking lot as always (though if this weather holds, maybe we’ll have a picnic instead).

Happy New Year from SDAC Chicago and congrats to JT, Dave, and Marybeth for their appointment as the new SDAC National directors. They have their work cut out for them so let’s all wish them luck! I think I speak on their behalf that if you feel like helping out more with the local chapter, feel free to let any of us know.

Just a reminder that our December meeting will be on the second Saturday of the month (the 10th) at Tuffy’s in Glendale Heights. See you there!

Ron and Keith will be hosting our 2nd annual Chili Cook-off at Tuffy’s in Glendale Heights on October 15th! Please RSVP if you are planning to bring your dish so that we know how many Crock Pots will need a plug.

As is tradition, the August meeting will be at JT’s house in Des Plaines.

My ISP didn’t like all of the outgoing email traffic, so the club list has moved to a Google Group. You should have received an invitation if you are a member in good standing. The current list will probably be shut down in a few weeks. If you suddenly stop getting club email, make sure you have accepted the invitation. If you didn’t receive one, contact myself or Dave T.

The club mailing list is back in service now. If you are a current member of the club, you should have received the notice. If not, send me an email.

The photo gallery is now restored.

Back from the dead….

The club has switched hosting providers, so we had some interruptions in service after the DNS records finally updated.  The club site is now sharing space on my hosting provider, Godaddy, along side minimopar.net and a couple of others.  The transition has not been a smooth one, but I’m making progress.  The gallery is going to be down for a while until I can work around some bugs in that software.

The mail list is another matter, as the club cannot really afford the necessary dedicated server to host a real mail list like before.  We may have to look into other options, but in the short term I am trying to get it going on the server in my basement.

Ian is closing down his hosting server, so a big thanks to him for hosting us all those years!

Note that we are having our June meeting on the second Saturday (the 11th) at John Beeman’s house.