Board of Directors' Minutes
July, 2010

By Bruce Preston

A regular meeting of the Board of Directors was held July 14, 2010 at 7:00 PM at the DACS Resource Center. Directors present were:

Richard Corzo, Drew Kwashnak, Patrick Libert, Bruce Preston, Jim Scheef, Jeff Setaro, Joseph Tobin, Annette van Ommeren

President Corzo presided, Secretary Preston took the minutes.

As there was no formal meeting in June, the Minutes for the May meeting were accepted as published.

Treasurer’s Report:
Members 171, Members with mailed newsletters 65, Free mailed newsletters 22, Members with valid email addresses 166, Cash & checking accounts $5,877.56, postage stamp inventory $31.49, Total Assets $5,909.05, Prepaid dues ($325.00), Net Worth $5,504.85

Old Business

  1. General meetings
    a) Reviews – August: Marc Cohen?/Rich DiFranco?
    September: Patrick or someone from Mac SIG
    October: open
    b) Previews – August: Drew
    September: Someone from Mac SIG or Patrick
    October: open
    c) 2010 meeting topics
    Aug: Microsoft Office 2010—Jay Ferron—reconfirmed today, will send info tomorrow.
    Sep: Apple Mac OS X—Dave Marra
    Oct: E-book Readers—Bruce Preston
    Nov: possible topics: gaming consoles, Digital Camera/Video Survey – Gary Spring from Ritz Camera, netbooks
    Dec: John Patrick – State of the Internet – John needs to be contacted
    General Meeting dates for 2010: 1/4, 2/2, 3/2, 4/6, 5/4, 6/1, 7/6, 8/3, 9/7, 10/5, 11/2, 12/7
    The 10/5 meeting will be in the Conference Center across the hall from the auditorium.
  2. Open positions
    a) Need backup/replacement for Treasurer
    b) Need membership chairman
    Discussion – will talk it up at the next General Meeting, try recruit at meeting, Patrick will put something in next DACS.DOC – position responsibilities, estimate of time commitment, etc.
  3. Using Drupal for the DACS Web site—update
    Annette – making progress on front-end design, test site not yet ready for prime time, but available for review. She will provide the board with a URL that will provide access.
    Jim – CiviCRM – will load membership database into MySQL as test backend data for evaluation. Jim and Jeff to work out existing details on e-mail interface.
  4. Scholarship committee—any update?
    Jim recruited Mary Tobin to join the committee. Jim Scheef and Mary Tobin to contact several high schools to determine what info needs to be provided such that we can offer a scholarship.

New Business

  1. Due to a new job, Andrew McGinitie will be unable to restart the Robotics SIG
  2. Andy Woodruff has agreed to join the board in September, this will fill our board vacancy.
  3. Jim has requested that we obtain Windows Server 2008 R2 – need to determine whether 32-bit or 64-bit. Question has been submitted to Chris as to what hosting platform he would provide.
  4. Discussion as to DACS Community service – possible service to Danbury Senior Center, LVA, Voice for Joanie.

Motion to adjourn made and approved 8:20 PM


 


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