Directors' Notes

January 13, 2003

A Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors was held at the Resource Center on Monday, January 13, 2003. Present were Messrs Bovaird, Buoy, Cohen, Gallichotte, Keane, Ostergren, Powers, Preston, Scheef and Setaro. Also present was Don Pearson. President Jim Scheef presided and Secretary Larry Buoy kept the record. Minutes of the last meeting held December 16, 2002 were approved. Treasurer Charlie Bovaird presented a Balance Sheet showing combined bank and postal accounts of $18,103.36, plus postage on hand of $110.69, a total of $18,214.05. Also shown was liability for prepaid dues of $7,410.00, leaving net cash assets of $10,804.05. Charlie also reported that current membership stood at 458; of those, 72 were Electronic Only members; and 349 members had provided email addresses. Following a short discussion of the effectiveness of the few posters announcing the January General Meeting, it was agreed that, posters announcing the February General Meeting again be placed and at additional locations before any assessment of effectiveness could be made. Programs for future General Meetings were reviewed, with announcement that Richard Ten Dyke would be asked to make his presentation on Digital Photography in the March slot, replacing a presentation on genealogy by Ancestry.com that had been moved to June. Presently, both April and May remain unfilled slots. Frank Powers will approach Turtle Beach as a possible presentation. Faculty members of the Danbury branch of the Naugatuck Valley Higher Education Center also were mentioned as a possible source of programs. The subject of free "Business Card" ads in the newsletter brought forth the consensus that same be continued with better information regarding placement of such ads given the general membership. President Scheef also announced that there appeared to be interest in the establishment of permanent email addresses for any member desiring same, using the DACS server to forward or receive any messages via that member’s current ISP. Again, this would involve the successful installation of Sendmail on the server at the RC. Jim Scheef next advised that management of Ives Center had changed. Possible ramifications thereof were discussed, digressing to parking restrictions at the Center, for benefit of new directors. Considered next was the need for a liability disclaimer on the DACS Web Site and statements as to copyright status of any material therein, which would include any articles or other material included in the newsletter which are posted on or linked to the Web Site. Also considered was revision of the policy statement in the newsletter, regarding reprinting of any article by any other user group and inclusion of a copyright notice for each article. Larry Buoy

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