Directors' Notes

October 11, 1999

A Regular Meeting of the DACS Board was held at the Resource Center on October 11, 1999. Present were Messrs. Bovaird, Buoy, Cohen, David, Gingras, Ostergren, Preston and Setaro. Chairman Wally David presided and Secretary Larry Buoy kept the records of the meeting. Minutes of the September 13 were approved. Finance Treasurer Charles Bovaird informed the Board that a $5,000 Certificate of Deposit had been purchased which when added to checking and postal accounts gives us a total cash position of $16,445.37. Adding outstanding receivables of $500 for advertising and postage on hand of $60.56 gives us a total of $17,005.93. Of this, $9,862 represents an obligation of dues paid in advance. Membership Current membership is 546. Application forms from new members indicated that the majority had heard of DACS by word-of-mouth, followed by our Web Home Page and newspapers, etc. Jeff Setaro added that the Home Page had had 3,900 "hits" during September. Recycling day volunteers President Ostergren stated that the general membership's response to the plea of the HRRA for volunteers to help with the recycling or disposal of used computers during the "America Recycles" day (October 20) had been less than overwhelming. He circulated a sign-up sheet among the Directors for those who could assist in this program. Y2K videotape In the absence of Ed Here, President Ostergren advised that the videotape of the Y2K Conference held in May will be scheduled for viewing at area Senior centers and within the Danbury School System. Microsoft 2000 event Jeff Setaro reported on preparations for the special presentation by Microsoft of its Windows 2000 Customer Satisfaction Tour to be held at the Southbury Hilton Hotel on October 20. The DACS projector is to be set up at the Hilton, and the giveaways are to be shipped to him. He also would appreciate help packaging the giveaways (at 5:00 p.m.), with registration to begin at 6:30 p.m. followed by the presentation beginning at 7:00 p.m. (Postcards to the general membership regarding this presentation were labeled and stamped prior to the start of this meeting.) Elections With respect to the upcoming election of directors at the December general meeting, Chairman Wally David and Dick Gingras agreed to act as a nominating committee to seek nominees for reelection or replacement of those directors whose terms will expire. Indexing dacs electric Larry Buoy suggested that the on-line version of dacs.doc might be more useful if it contained an index to the subjects covered in the archives. Jeff Setaro advised that in addition to its being a considerable task, establishing links to individual articles and to the Random Access feature would easily exceed our allotted space on the Danbury Library's server. Further consideration of the project, perhaps simplified to an indexed list of the online issues online that can be manually accessed, was tabled. UGN solicitation President Ostergren distributed copies of a solicitation for membership in a "User Group Network" which had been e-mailed to him. A cursory examination by the directors present resulted in comments that this "Network" appeared to have possible ulterior motives and that no action encouraging membership should be taken pending investigation. A true record. ATTEST: Lawrence Buoy Secretary

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