Board of Directors A regular meeting of the DACS Board of Directors was held at the Resource Center on Monday, February 13, 2006. Present were Messrs. Bovaird, Corzo, Henderson, Keane, Leifels, Scheef, Setaro and Yates. President Jeff Setaro presided and Secretary Lisa Leifels kept the record. Minutes of the last meeting held on January 9, 2006 were approved. Treasurer Charles Bovaird reported current cash assets of $12,779.97, consisting of total bank and postal accounts in the amount of $12,680.59, plus postage on hand of $99.38. Subtracting a liability of prepaid dues in the amount of $6,348.00 left a net equity of $6,431.97. He also reported that the current membership is 336. Jamie Yates announced the upcoming General Meeting topics for the next three months: On March 7th, A CAD presentation will be given by Jamie’s son Scott Yates; on April 4th, PC Maintenance by Jamie Yates; on May 2nd, there will be a SmartHome presentation. Richard Corzo has a contact for an Apple presentation. Jim Scheef is in touch with someone who can do a Microsoft presentation. Another idea is HDTV, given by one of the local retail outlets such as Tweeter or Circuit City. Jamie Yates passed around a summary of the survey results from the January General Meeting. He received responses from 75% of the people attending the meeting. Ninety percent said they were interested in the topic being presented. The summary included over 40 different topics for future meetings, some of the ideas included Windows Live, DVD Authoring, Photoshop, Linux, Homeplug, non IE browsers, and how the registry works. Richard Corzo proposed that the DACS Web site feature, This Month’s Meeting, should profile the upcoming program instead of the previous one. Jeff said he would communicate this to Scott. Jamie asked if we knew how many people look at the DACS website. Jeff said that there were good statistics available from Mags.net. Sean suggested that we review the website statistics at the next Board Meeting. Sean Henderson went over his proposal of changes to improve DACS and increase the membership. He recommended adding local hot spots and photos of the SIG leaders to the website; increasing the number of SIGS, doing a Resource Center makeover and having the general meetings catered. Bill Keane announced that he will be moving from the area, and we should start looking for a replacement for him on the board, and also for a new leader for the Advanced OS SIG. Jim Scheef suggested that we should get a new router for the Resource Center. The current router is no longer supported by new firmware.
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