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Regular Meeting of your Board of Directors was held at the Resource
Center on November
10, 2003, at 7:00 p.m. Present were Messrs. Bovaird, Buoy, Cohen,
Gallichotte, Keane, Preston,
Scheef and Setaro. Also present was Howard Berger. Jim Scheef,
President, presided. Larry
Buoy, Secretary, kept the record. Minutes of the last meeting,
held on October 13, 2003, were
presented and approved.
Treasurer Charlie Bovaird reported
current cash assets of $17,867.87, consisting of bank and
postal accounts of $17,777.13 plus postage on hand of $90.74.
Subtracting liabilities of prepaid
dues in the amount of $6,475.00 left a net of $11,392.87. He
also reported current membership of
415.
A review of the schedule of presentations
for upcoming General Meetings was made: December
- John Patrick; January - Jamie Yates and John Gallichotte on
Google and/or easy Hacking and,
for March, Snap Video. Jeff Setaro announced that he had approached
Adobe regarding a
possible presentation for February and that it would probably
be possible to switch Adobe and
Snap Video between February and March to accommodate either program.
The balance of the
year 2004 remains open.
On the possible donation of computers
for rehabilitation by Casey Family Services, Charlie
Bovaird announced that the computers may no longer be available
and that the monitors
definitely were not. Howie Berger stated that he had been offered
space at the Union Carbide
building in which to rebuild computers if such a project materializes.
Charlie Bovaird advised that he
had no further response to the member survey and was
contemplating a more basic survey based on specific interests
via email. Relative thereto, Larry
Buoy suggested an ongoing series of articles in the newsletter
on basic computers skills, such as
file management, or on programs of which ordinary users may be
completely unaware. This was
followed by many suggestions and discussions regarding the formatting
and media for
conducting a successful survey.
Next considered was the subject
of the upcoming election of directors at the December General
Meeting. President Scheef reminded the meeting that Howard Berger
and Anna Collens had
agreed to stand for election and that Allan Ostergren would not
stand for reelection. There was a
short discussion on the advisability of having more nominees
for election as a director than
openings for such office.
Howie Berger broached the subject
of how to increase interest in any of the various SIG groups
and cited examples in his own interests. The available methods
of inciting such interests were
explored.
Jim Scheef announced that Tech Venue,
which had provided an online calendar of computer
oriented events, had evidently deteriorated to the point where
such calendar could no longer be
updated via the Internet, and that he had canceled such service.
In addition, Jim informed the
meeting that the Access SIG was not currently listed with Microsoft's
Mindshare program and
asked Bruce Preston and Jeff Setaro to rectify same.
President Scheef also related his
efforts to solve the problem of what Microsoft products had
been won by which winners of same at the November 4th General
Meeting.
Larry Buoy
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Directors' Notes
