Jennifer began the meeting at 7 pm
Participants:
Nancy
Marie
Dave
Jennifer
Lucas
Ryan
Jamilah
Small edit: add Lucas and Marie to list of participants from May minutes.
Marie motion to accept minutes with minor edit, Nancy seconded, minutes approved.
Treasurer Update:
$100 donation for walkathon
$2191.90 current account balance
Total Walkathon donations: $525
Walkathon continues through the end of the convention.
No presenter this month.
General discussion:
If you have an echo plus, it will not play ACB media.
Here is the text of the email with more information:
Change to Alexa that May Affect How You Listen to ACB Media
Dear ACB Media Listeners:
We want to let you know about a new change to Alexa that may affect how you listen to ACB Media.
Amazon is rolling out a new AI version of Alexa called Alexa Plus. Some people are being invited to try it early. While we were told that only Echo Show users would get it, we now know that people using other devices — like the Echo Studio — are also getting it.
If you accept the invitation to turn on Alexa Plus, all of your Alexa devices will be updated. It’s not possible to have some devices with Alexa Plus and others still using the old Alexa on the same account.
Here’s the problem:
The ACB Media skill does not work with Alexa Plus right now.
If you try to say something like “Alexa, ask ACB Media to play 2,” after you activated Alexa Plus, Alexa will say the skill is not supported. When asked why, Alexa explains that the skill needs to be updated for the new Alexa Plus software.
We are already in touch with the developer of the ACB Media skill, and we are working to get it updated to work with Alexa Plus. But until that happens, here’s what you can do:
What to do:
- If you are invited to try Alexa Plus, we recommend saying “No”for now if you often listen to ACB Media using your Alexa devices.
- If you already turned on Alexa Plus and the ACB Media skill stopped working, you can go back to the old Alexa by saying: “Alexa, disable Alexa Plus.”
Once Alexa Plus is disabled, your ACB Media skill should work again. You are able to reactivate Alexa Plus once you disable it.
With our ACB Conference and Convention starting on June 23, we want to make sure you don’t lose access to ACB Media when you need it most.
We’ll send another update once the skill has been made compatible with Alexa Plus. Please note that to get Alexa Plus, you must be invited by Amazon to participate in the Alexa Plus Early Access Program. Do not be alarmed if you have not yet been invited into the program.
Thank you for your understanding and continued support!
Sincerely,
The ACB Media Team
Virtually participating in the convention
Today (June 17) is the last day to register.
Here’s a link with all of the needed information: https://acbconvention.org/
When does the convention start?
June 23, virtually
July 4 in-person
Palmetto Council made a donation for the summer auction
A candidate page on the ACB website.
BITS – technology group from ACB has a lot of training going on this summer. Here’s the link to their website.
Here is a page about ACB’s various publications and media:
If there is more information that you wish to know about regarding ACB, let us know!
Topics or ideas for upcoming meetings:
If you have ideas of topics or discussion ideas for our meetings over the next year, reach out to Jennifer.
Some things we have discussed in the past include: tips and tricks you find helpful in the kitchen, discussion about AI.
We’re going to start including birthdays for the current month in our meetings minutes, June is the month we’re beginning this.
June Birthday:
22nd, Malaya
Upcoming meeting dates:
July 22
Aug 19