Directors' Notes
Directors' Notes
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A meeting of the DACS Board of Directors was held at the Resource Center on Monday, November 11, 2002, at 7:00 p.m. Present were Messrs Bovaird, Buoy, Keane, Ostergren, Pearson, Preston, Scheef and Setaro and Mrs Gaberel. Jim Scheef, President, presided and Larry Buoy, Secretary, kept the record of the meeting. Minutes of the last meeting, held October 7, 2002, were approved with two corrections. Treasurer Charlie Bovaird reported combined bank and postal accounts of $17,192.97, plus postage on hand of $129.76, a total of $17,321.97, less prepaid dues of $7,360.00, for a net of $9,961.97. He also reported current membership of 456. During a discussion of prospective programs for General Meetings, it was stated that the meeting for January, 2003, would be a presentation by Frank Powers on transferring vinyl and tape media material to CDs. Other possible presentations by DACS "Old Timers," home networking (with probable restrictions or prohibition by the Hospital using the "WiFi" technique,) DSL Internet access availability by a representative of mags.net and/or wideband access by a DACS member and on digital photography (as opposed to digital manipulation). After advice by Jim Scheef that an additional page of membership benefits would be added to the DACS Web Site, further discussion ensued on the subject of making the database of DACS membership email addresses available to DACS members, with no acceptable method of doing so being suggested. Next discussed were the donations of furniture (computer stations, desks, bookcases, chairs, etc.), potential uses thereof and disposal of the less desirable furniture it may replace, as well as additional computers installed at the RC. After a brief discussion, the Secretary
was instructed to send a letter to Matt Greger, expressing the
regret of the Board at his resignation as a Director. On request, Allan Ostergren offered the names of Charlie Bovaird, Marlene Gaberel, Bill Keane, Don Neary and Don Pearson as the directors who would be candidates for re-election at the December Annual Meeting of the Membership. Don Pearson thereupon announced that he would soon be moving from the area and, consequently, felt that his election for another term as a director would be unrealistic and declined to stand for election. Possible candidates to replace Don were explored. Further exploration of the subject of better utilization of space intended for "Business Card" ads in the newsletter led to the determination that such space be available for such ads free of charge to any current member of DACS, in the order of receipt of copy and subject to available space, to priority for paid advertisements and to restrictions of the United States Postal Service on advertising within pieces mailed under a non-profit bulk mailing permit. It was suggested by Jim Scheef that the email list be moved to the Sendmail category of the server of the Linux machine. It was recognized that doing so is not a trivial task and that volunteers should be recruited to assist. Charlie Bovaird then advised the meeting that under current and expected increases in the fees charged by credit card issuers, the automatic renewal of memberships may soon be a losing proposition. Bruce Preston suggested that the "PayPal" program be investigated as an alternative clearing house for credit card dues payment. Allan Ostergren mentioned the lack of any action to date on notification to APCUG that the officers of DACS had changed. He also informed the meeting that the Danbury Chamber of Commerce would be sponsoring its annual Business Showcase on Thursday, November 14, in which DACS may or may not wish to participate. Following discussion, it was the consensus that DACS not participate. —Larry Buoy |
