Board of Directors
Minutes
January 9, 2006

A regular meeting of your Board of Directors was held at the Resource Center on Monday, January 9, 2006. Present were Messrs. Bovaird, Corzo, Gallichotte, Henderson, Leifels, Preston, Setaro and Yates. President Jeff Setaro presided and Secretary Lisa Leifels kept the record. Minutes of the last meeting held on December 12, 2005 were approved.

Treasurer Charles Bovaird reported current cash assets of $13,438.38, consisting of total bank and postal accounts in the amount of $13,323.79, plus postage on hand of $114.59. Subtracting a liability of prepaid dues in the amount of $4,693.00 left a net equity of $8,745.38. He also reported that the current membership is 338. Jeff asked if it was possible to tell how many members have signed up for a three-year membership. Charlie said he could find out what percentage of members have signed up for one and three-year memberships.

Jim Scheef’s Open Office presentation originally scheduled for the January General Meeting, that was cancelled because of the weather, has been rescheduled for February. Jeff Setaro mentioned that Mike Kaltschnee has offered to do another presentation on Blogging. Jim Scheef wasn’t at the meeting, but emailed the idea of presenting Mozilla’s Firefox as a future topic.

Richard Corzo offered the topic of High Definition TV. Jeff Setaro suggested discussing what you can do today with an ipod.
A new 15 minute “What’s New” section will be added to the General Meeting format. This will take place after the Random Access question and answer session. The new section will include either interesting hardware or software announcements of what’s currently happening in the computer industry or a brief presentation on a new technology. The Board Members will send their ideas to Jamie Yates, who will narrow down the list. Jamie has volunteered to be the initial person to introduce the selected “What’s New” topic at the February General Meeting.

Richard Corzo brought up the calendar discrepancy problem between the website and the newsletter. Jeff Setaro stated that when there are SIG meeting changes, an email needs to be sent to both Allan Ostergren and Scott Preston. Allan updates the information in the DACS newsletter and Scott updates the information on the DACS website. Jeff said he was going to ask Jim to set up a SIG leader mailing list, so he can easily communicate important information to the SIG leaders.

Jeff Setaro brought up the subject of the election of DACS officers. The election of officers would take place in March and the officer term would take effect in April. Jeff said he would like to find someone to be the VP of Marketing and Public Relations.

A brief discussion on how last months meeting cancellation process went. Scott was able to add the meeting cancellation very quickly to the DACS website. John Gallichotte said it would be helpful to tell the members that the meeting cancellations will be announced both on the website and also which radio stations.

—Lisa Leifels