Minutes
August 8, 2005

A regular meeting of your Board of Directors was held at the Resource Center on Monday, August 8, 2005. Present were Messrs. Bovaird, Cohen, Corzo, Gallichotte, Preston, Scheef, Setaro, and Yates. Also present was Lisa Leifels. President Jeff Setaro presided and Secretary Lisa Leifels kept the record. Minutes of the last meeting held on July 11, 2005 were approved.

Treasurer Charles Bovaird reported current cash assets of $14,831.91, consisting of total bank and postal accounts in the amount of $14,724.37 plus postage on hand of $107.54. Subtracting a liability of prepaid dues in the amount of $5,922.00 left a net equity of $8,909.91. He also reported that the current membership is 346.

Jamie Yates commented that he received a lot of compliments from people saying they enjoyed the last General Meeting on Special Interest Groups. A conversation ensued about the passing of the new daylight savings time. John Gallichotte questioned if the BIOS on our computers would need to be updated. Luckily we have until 2007 to address this problem.

There was a discussion about what topics would be included at the next General Meeting on Shareware. Jamie Yates volunteered to speak about Roboform, a password manager program. Bruce Preston said he would talk about Textpad, a programmer’s editor. He also would briefly cover a few other programs including Cool Ruler and Color Dropper. Marc Cohen offered to talk about SunClock, an interesting screen saver. Jim Scheef said he may talk about ISOBuster or xReminder. John Gallichotte said it would help to see the URL where the shareware software could be downloaded. Jamie offered to create a handout with the URL’s for the general meeting.

Jamie Yates thought Mozilla Firefox would be a good topic to talk about at the next General Meeting. He noticed this topic was covered by a few other computer user groups in the area and said he would try and get in touch with them to see if we could get a speaker.

Jeff Setaro said he received a phone call from Kevin Gallagher, who has a program called ‘Time Out with Kevin Gallagher’ on the Comcast Cable Public Access Channel, and who would like someone from DACS to be on the show. Richard Corzo offered to TiVo the show to learn more about it.

Everyone appreciated that Jim Scheef took the time to paint the wall at the Resource Center white. This will help the colors to display clearer on the projector during the SIG meetings.