Board of Directors' Minutes
October 2010

By Bruce Preston

Meeting called to order at 7:10PM by Richard Corzo, President

Attending: Richard Corzo, Patrick Libert, Charlie Bovaird, Jim Scheef, Andy Woodruff, Bruce Preston, Drew Kwashnak

The minutes of the last meeting were presented and approved

Treasurer’s Report

Old Business

1. General meetings
            October: E-book Readers - Bruce Preston, Review: Richard Corzo
            November: New Trends in Digital Cameras - Gary Spring of Ritz Camera.
Preview: Chris Furey, Review: Andy Woodruff
We Need to get something to Rich DiFranco for the press release as soon as possible.
            December: DIY 3D Printing and Rapid Prototyping - CT Hackerspace.
Preview: Rob Limbaugh (un-confirmed), Jim Scheef (backup), Review: Jim or Patrick depending on who writes the Preview.
January: tentative - Music Workshop - composition/editing/mixing – possible presenters: Andy Woodruff /Sean Henderson? Andy will contact Sean.
February: State of the Internet - John Patrick (remote from Florida) Preview: Andy, Review: OPEN
Other topic(s): Virtualization: Chris Furey had suggested that this might be an interesting topic for a general meeting. We will follow up with him

General Meeting dates for 2010: 11/2, 12/7
General Meeting dates for 2011: TBD (Danbury Hospital books the schedule for the meeting rooms in December)

2.         Open positions - Charlie has provided descriptions for the first two as follows:
Need backup/replacement for Treasurer – Charlie says: "Not a heavy requirement – we primarily need a person who uses Quicken" – we should try to solicit someone for the position during the GM break.
           
Membership Chairperson - primarily lobby greeter, sign-in, maintain list - but not a recruiter.
            Managing Editor DACS.DOC as of Jan. 1, 2011 (replacing Patrick Libert)
           
3.         December Board Elections - half of the Director positions are up for renewal.  Richard will contact the current Directors whose terms are ending to see if they are running, but we will probably have at least one open position needing to be filled.

4.         Using Drupal for the DACS Web site - no change of status reported

5.         Scholarship committee - no change of status reported

6.         Membership info required when member joins using PayPal - resolved, tested, working.

7.         TechFest report - Dave Mawdsley, Charlie Bovaird, Drew Kwashnak, and Jim Scheef attended – The DACS booth was well received with a good turnout and lots of interest.  Family membership feature of DACS was a draw.

New Business

            We have two issues - receiving e-mail addressed to <somebody>@dacs.org, and sending out e-mails as a FROM: <somebody>@dacs.org.   The receiving can be done trivially as it only requires a forwarding capability; this is often a no-cost option, as it doesn't require any server space.  The services we are currently using at Mags.Net will shortly become unavailable as they are on a server that is being replaced, and the e-mail server software will not support the old configuration.  Our requirements include handling multiple aliases (one externally visible e-mail address expands to multiple delivery addresses.)  Rob has suggested ZoneEdit, Jim will need to investigate.

Andy proposed building a wood tabletop frame to run the length of the RC conference table, which would organize the AC power and Cat-5 cabling.  He asked for collective design suggestions.

The meeting adjourned at 9:10 PM