Washington Area Commodore User Group Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting 9 May 1998 Board Meeting Attendance - Jorn Dakin, Alex Goodale, Geof Goodrum, Bob Mason, Kenley Mays, Kathryn Perrin, Lu Spriggs, Mike ten Kate. Minutes - Minutes from the January and April meetings were distributed and read. January minutes were amended to show the titles of elected officers and to note that volunteer members of the board were voted in. Spelling change made from "Mike Ten-Kate " to "Mike ten Kate". April minutes were amended to change "WACC to "WAC" and Kenley Mays e-mail address was corrected to read "grayfeather@inmind.com." The January and April minutes were approved as amended. General Meeting - The meeting consisted of an excellent demo of the personal contact manager Goldmine 4.0 by Bruce Kanner who gave a nicely paced and complete overview of Goldmine's features. The balance of the meeting was to include live demos of sev eral Internet browsers including Netscape 4.0, NeoPlanet, and Opera. Due to a technical glitch, an Internet connection could not be established. Bob Mason and Lu Spriggs gamely went on and presented demos which were still informative and helpful. Alex Goodale said he would call followup with the Government Center to see why a phone connection could not be established. Geof Goodrum also ran a Help SIG event and installed the Linux operating system on Kenley's PC. Club turn out was very respectable at 27 participants. Treasurer's Report - Jorn Dakin distributed and discussed the club's May financial report which showed a year-to-date income of $834.00, year-to-date expenses of $544.35, and a current checking balance of $2691.07. Jorn noted that he reimbursed Geof Good rum for $49.00 in club related postage and printing expenses. In addition, he noted these figures do not include the new laptop Bob Mason just purchased for the club. The Treasurer's report was accepted. Disk Sales - Total sales were $49.00 broken down as follows: 13 MS-DOS disk sets ($39.00), 4 8-Bit Disks ($8.00), and 1 VB Runtime Library Set ($2.00). Membership - Current club membership stands at 50. Board Business - We discussed the upcoming June swap meet. Geof Goodrum agreed to handle the WAC sales and membership table. He also noted that he had placed an event announcement with Computer User newspaper and included the swap meet announcement on the club's website. Alex Goodale noted he would followup to make sure the swap meet is included in the Washington Post's Fast Forward insert. Bob Mason and Alex Goodale agreed to work together to prepare the signs for the swap meeting which will be post ed on the day of the event at key locations near the Government Center. Alex Goodale discussed the possibility of running some entertainment software such as Tomb Raider or Quake at the meet. He agreed to bring in some software to the meet. Kathryn Perrin suggested that we might want to invite members of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors to the meet so they could become more familiar with the club and its members. We decided to hold off inviting them to the swap meet, but agreed that it might be useful to invite them to a regular club meeting. Geof Goodrum noted that he sent TIAC some snail mail regarding the disputed charge for forwarding the club's e-mail to Mike ten Kate. He said he had not heard anything back from TIAC. Mike ten Kate collected background information on the club in order to complete the APCUG (Association of Personal Computer User Groups) application which the Board approved at a prior meeting. Mike indicated he would write a check for $75.00 to cover th e initiation fee and first years due and receive reimbursement from the club at the next Board of Directors meeting. Kathryn Perrin asked whether the club could get a copy of PageMaker from Adobe to produce The Cursor. Mike ten Kate said he would into whether Adobe would supply us with a copy of the software in return for an honorable mention or review in the newslette r. Future Meetings - We discussed a scanner and camera session for July followed in August by a FrontPage 97/98 demo by Lance Cutler and Mike ten Kate. The possibility of a 3D graphic card installation and demo was reviewed again. Meeting adjourned.