DACS Board of Directors - Wednesday, June 8, 2011

By Bruce Preston

Called to Order at: 7:15PM

Attending: Andrew Woodruff, Bruce Preston (Secretary), David Green (Treasurer), Jeff Setaro, Jim Scheef, Patrick Libert, Richard Corzo (President)

Minutes of Previous Meeting - accepted.

Treasurer’s Report
Balance on hand 5/1/11: $6,387.86
Income: Dues: $313.83, Interest: $0.57, Total: $314.40
Expenses: Printing Apr+May: $170, RC Security: $79.34, Total: $249.34
Balance on hand 5/31/2011: $6,452.92

Membership Report
Months: APR / MAY / JUN
Paying Members: 152 / 154 / 154
E-Mail Addresses: 149 / 150 / 151
New Members: 0 / 2 / 0

DACS.DOC
Printed: 100 / 100 / 100
Mailed: 75 / 76 / 76
to members: 54/ 56 / 56
to other: 6 / 6 / 6
mailed-free library: 14 / 14 / 14

Meeting Attendance
APR (John Patrick - State of Internet)
MAY (Jeff Setaro - Virus etc.)
JUN (Kunst & Milmerstadt - Banking/eCommerce Security)
Seat count: 54 / 48 / 35
Members signed in: 42 / 44 / 31
Visitors signed in: 11 / 4 / 4

Old Business

1, General meetings
June 7: Frank Kunst & Chris Milmerstadt of Fairfield County Bank—Safe Internet Commerce, Preview: Rich DiFranco, Review: Bruce Preston
July 5: Converting Analog Recordings to Digital, Preview: Joseph Tobin, Review: Andy Woodruff
August 2: Norbert (Bob) Gostischa - Protecting Yourself and Your Identity Online (Avast! Security Seminar), Preview: Dave Green, Review: TBD
September 6: Dan O'Connor - Investment Tools, Preview: TBD, Review: TBD
           
Possible future topics:
a) Walt Mosberg or associate - technology
b) Tech Gifts in time for the holidays
c) Advanced Music editing - multi-track, mixing, live recording, etc.
d) Building Watson - contact IBM via John Patrick

2. Open positions
a) The membership chairperson position is still open.
b) Richard DiFranco is leaving the area and the board in July. David Green was nominated and voted in as Board Member to fill  in the remainder of Rich’s term.
c) Patrick Libert has picked up the responsibility for press releases.

3. DACS communications infrastructure update: The problem with dropped sessions has been resolved by replacing the DSL modem with one donated by Jim Scheef.  In addition, the Resource Center is once again behind the Netgear security router.

4 Our Google Voice number (203) 744-9198 is in operation. The website is updated with the new number, but the newsletter boilerplate still needs work. In the last issue it listed our Google Voice number as the Resource Center number.  The RC number is still (203) 748-4330. 

5. We’ll be putting together a display on DACS at the Danbury Library for September. Various people have contributed ideas; the Marketing & Public Relations forum in the DACS forum will be the place to collect material. Jim, Andy, Charlie are on board, Drew has expressed interest as well, needs confirmation.

6. The dacs.org domain registration is temporarily on Jim Scheef’s DynDNS.com account.  This needs to be moved.

7. The DACS Forum software has been updated to use MyBB and is now located at forum.dacs.org on Bluehost. The templates have been updated to reflect the new URL. There is a copy of the DACS site on Bluehost, but it needs to have the calendar moved from ASP to PHP. The feedback form also needs to be updated. The registration mechanism has blocked 20 spambot registrations in the few weeks that it has been running. The remaining piece to be converted is the feedback form.

8. 2010 income report and 2011 budget - Dave received samples from Andy, it is in Excel.  Jim suggests using Quicken since the data is already there.  However Qucken’s budget vs. actual module seems to be oriented for annual whereas we are looking for monthly recording, thus Excel will be used.

New Business

1 David Green will see if he can get online access to bank account at no cost.  Current bank has $5.00/month fee.

2 David Green has changed AT&T bill (RC phone/DSL circuit) to be direct withdrawal rather than mailed to RC and subsequently manually passed to him.
3 Patrick will look into keeping the website page that lists discounts for products to user group members updated with current offers. 
4 New or renewing members should get an e-mail welcoming or thanking them for signing up.

Meeting adjourned at 9:08PM