Directors' Notes
Directors' Notes
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A Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors was held at the RC on Monday, November 12, 2001. Present were Messrs. Buoy, Bovaird, Cohen, Neary, Ostergren, Pearson, Preston, Setaro and Mrs. Gaberel. Also present was Mr. James Scheef. President Allan Ostergren presided and Secretary Larry Buoy kept the record of the meeting. The minutes of the last meeting held October 8, 2001 were approved as presented. Treasurer Bovaird reported a total cash position of $21,864.95 consisting of CDs, checking and postal accounts and postage on hand, less liability of $8,358.00 in prepaid dues, for a net of $13,506.95. He also reported current membership of 473, of which 51 (11%) are electronic only memberships. Discussed were observations and statistics regarding attendance at the General Meeting held November 6 and the effectiveness of the initial advertising schedule attempted under the authorization adopted by this Board on October 8. It was the consensus that such advertising had merit and continuation of same was authorized publicizing the January General Meeting featuring a presentation on the Linux operating system by a representative of IBM. Relative thereto, Don Pearson will consider a special presentation on the practical aspects of installing, setting up and using the Linux system. Don Neary, acting as a Nominating Committee, reported on his efforts to recruit nominees for election or re-election as Directors at the upcoming December General Meeting. With respect to the December General Meeting, it was announced that Jim Scheef had offered to host the Random Access session due to a conflict in Bruce Preston’s schedule. Charlie Bovaird suggested that the on-line format of the dacs.doc newsletter should be, as nearly as possible, an exact copy of the printed version, thus supporting our electronic membership and our advertisers. Included should be the equivalent of the insert for the printed version regarding advertising rates, membership application and interest categories as well as the business card ads and map locating the Danbury Hospital meeting site. It was also suggested that graphics be improved and that links to particular articles be included in the index as well as to the web sites of advertisers. Jim Scheef then presented a detailed proposal for upgrading the computer elements at the RC. Principal element of such change would be the conversion of the workstation PC at the RC to a Windows 2000 Server, preserving the ability to produce the newsletter with a specific user account for the newsletter committee. The foregoing would necessitate removal of the Linux installation from the workstation PC, to be replaced by installation on a second machine, thus expanding services to the membership. Also, the DACS web site could be moved to mags.net, allowing mags.net to manage the DACS domain and allow DACS to escape the restrictions placed upon our site by the Danbury Public Library and significant expansion of services to the members, viz.: allowing members to update mailing and email addresses, make newsletter back issues searchable, etc. The older and mostly unused PCs at the RC could then be utilized as networked workstations.
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