Board of Directors Minutes
October 2007

by Lisa Leifels

A regular meeting of your Board of Directors was held on Monday, October 8, 2007. Present were John Lansdale, Lisa Leifels, Patrick Libert, Rob Limbaugh, Christine Novell, Jim Scheef, Jeff Setaro and Jamie Yates. President Rob Limbaugh presided and secretary Lisa Leifels kept the record. Minutes of the last meeting held September 10, 2007 were approved.

Not having Treasurer Charles Bovaird, President Rob Limbaugh reported current cash assets of $9,056.82, consisting of total bank and postal accounts in the amount of $9,013.07 plus postage on hand of $43.75. Subtracting a liability of prepaid dues in the amount of $5,798.00 left a net equity of $3,258.82. He also reported that the current membership increased to 261, 77 of which are electronic.

Christine said that the November general meeting will be a presentation by some of the SIG leaders describing what their group is about and what usually takes place at their meetings. Rob’s fiancé Flo has offered to do a talk on how nonprofit companies versus corporations approach IT Management. Jeff Setaro suggested we try to get NewTech to come back and do another presentation on their 3D LightWave software for the Mac.

On Friday, November 2, Sean Henderson will do a PC-based music production workshop at the DACS resource center. Sean reported by email that he is advertising DACS events on Craigslist.org, AmericanTowns.com and MySpace.com. He has emphasized that the upcoming John Patrick meeting in December should be the primary marketing focus.

Howie Berger reported by email that progress is being made with the nonprofit project. DACS will be invited to participate on a new initiative to help bring technology resources to the nonprofit community. Howie communicated that he had a successful meeting with Mission Research, a company which specializes in nonprofit fund raising and volunteer software.

Rob mentioned that the resource center beautification project will take place on two consecutive Saturdays, October 20 and October 27.

Rob recommended that we create a new Special Project SIG to be held on the second Wednesday of the month. He also thought we should add a Windows SIG to be held on the fourth Wednesday of the month, which Rob offered to run for the first few months. Both of the new SIGs were approved by the board.

The meeting ended with a few members of the board commenting on what a great job Anna Collens and Richard Corzo are doing in keeping the data on the DACS website up to date.