Directors' Notes

 

January 12, 2004

 

A meeting of your Board of Directors was held at the Resource Center on Monday, January 12, 2004. Present were Messrs. Bovaird, Cohen, Gallichotte, Keane, Preston, Scheef and Setaro and Mrs. Collens. Also present were Messrs. Buoy and Ostergren. President Jim Scheef presided, Secretary Larry Buoy kept the record. Minutes of the meeting held December 8, 2003 were approved.

Treasurer Charlie Bovaird reported current cash assets of $18,389.17, consisting of bank and postal accounts $18,228.19 plus postage on hand of $160.98. Subtracting liabilities of prepaid dues in the amount of $5,518.00 left a net of $12,871.17. He also reported current membership of 418.

First discussed was the ongoing concern of presentations for future General Meetings. President Scheef announced that he had no reply from Howard Reis as to his willingness to shift the presentation on Snap Video to February. After much discussion of possible alternative subjects for the February meeting, it was agreed that Bruce Preston and Jeff Setaro jointly present programs on considerations to be addressed when purchasing a computer, how to keep it healthy by detecting spyware or viruses, how to get rid of them, and dealing with cookies.

Jim Scheef next reported, regarding the computers expected to be donated by Casey Family Services, that the shortfall of monitors may be a problem and that, until licenses for installing operating systems are obtained, the project remains in limbo.

Jim also reported that the door prizes from Microsoft’s “Office 2003” presentation in November, 2003 had arrived and would be distributed as soon as possible.

President Scheef again suggested the need for further revision of the Bylaws of the corporation so that they and the current practices of the corporation agree.

A report was made on the status of modifications to the iMac previously donated to the RC to enable it to be upgraded to the OS-X operating system and use by the newly reincarnated Mac SIG. It was also reported that such SIG had recruited approximately eight members. with Richard Corzo as SIG leader. Also discussed were possible methods of recruiting additional members via email or the DACS Web site.

In anticipation of an anniversary celebration of the founding of the original user group that has evolved into DACS through “mergers,” Jim Scheef asked for help in determining the date of organization of such group. Marc Cohen volunteered to search his archives for such information and, after much discussion, it was determined that it was probably 1982 or earlier.

Charlie Bovaird introduced the subject of an upcoming seminar on establishing a new business sponsored by the Danbury Chamber of Commerce. Considering the narrow time element before such seminar, it was suggested that the membership be advised of same via email or the DACS Web site.

—Lawrence Buoy
lbuoy@dacs.org


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