Washington Area Commodore User Group Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting 15 August 1998 Board Meeting Attendance - Jorn Dakin, Geof Goodrum, Alex Goodale, Bob Mason, Kenley Mays, Kathryn Perrin, Lu Spriggs, and Mike ten Kate. Minutes - Minutes from the July board meetings were distributed and read. Correction made to change "Mavika" to "Mavica." The minutes were then approved as amended. Comments on General Meeting - Great turn out for a meeting which featured Windows 98 and Red Hat Linux. Good turnout can, in part, be traced to Geof Goodrum placing a notice in the Fairfax Journal which allowed a wider audience to become aware of a meeting that dealt with topics of broad appeal. Attendance at General Meeting - 30+ Club Membership - Current club membership has risen to 58 with the addition of eight members who signed up at the meeting. Treasurer's Report - Jorn Dakin distributed and discussed the club's August financial report which showed a year-to-date income of $1077.00, year-to-date expenses of $1,701.45 and a current checking balance of $1,776.97. The Treasurer's report was accepted without amendment. Disk Sales - Total sales were $41.00 broken down as follows: twelve PC disk sets ($36.00), one non-member sale ($1.00), and two 8-bit disks ($4.00). A total of six PC disk sets were given to new members. General Discussion - Geof mentioned he still plans to attend the APCUG Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, November 14-15. He noted that several of the APCUG sessions look potentially useful for the club. Kathryn Perrin suggested that the club consider printing up some business cards which could be distributed to local businesses as a means of free advertising. Bob Mason said he would look into designing a card for the club. It as agreed that we didn't need printed business cards but could produce our own using a business card software kit. The article deadline submission for the September Cursor is August 29. Kathryn noted she would appreciate receiving all submissions by noon on that date. She added she will look into AOL's ability to transfer FTP files and will continue working with Geof on this issue which involves transmitting the completed version of the Cursor to Geof each month for final processing. Geof noted that the Cursor masthead has been updated per discussions with Lu Spriggs to reflect an officer title change. Plans for Future Meetings - After some discussion, we agreed on a tentative agenda for the September meeting which will feature demos by Lance Cutler's brother-in-law on FrontPage 98 and Lois Brant on LiveArt98. It not certain at this point whether Lois is ready to give a demo and we need to confirm with Lance that his brother-in-law will be available for the meeting. Alex Goodale said he would contact Lois and Lance to confirm arrangements. As a backup, we agreed that Bob Mason could do a comparative review of the Microsoft, Lotus, and Corel office suites at the September meeting if necessary and that we could add a Y2K segment as well. The plan for the October meeting is to feature either the FrontPage98/LiveArt98 demos or the office suites demo depending on what happens in September. We agreed on a tentative schedule for November which would feature desktop publishing as a theme. Kathryn will demo Adobe PageMaker and we hope Lance's wife can give a demo of Microsoft Publisher. Jorn suggested we might want to introduce some discussion of the Apple Mac at the November meeting given the Mac's prominence in that arena. Again, participation by Lance's wife will need to be confirmed. Meeting adjourned.