Washington Area Commodore User Group
Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting
23 January 1999

Board Meeting Attendance - Alex Goodale, Geof Goodrum, Kathy Perrin, Bob
Mason, Lu Spriggs, Bill Walsh, and Mike ten Kate

Minutes - Minutes from the December board meeting were distributed and
read.  Minutes were amended to read "Article 4" instead of "proposed
officers shall be nominated by the President."  Minutes were approved as
amended.

Comments on General Meeting - Elections went well and four members were
elected to the Board (Jorn Dakin, Geof Goodrum, Lu Spriggs, and Mike ten
Kate).  Elections and general club business were followed by a good
presentation by Jason Velasco from OnTrack who covered a wide number of
data recovery issues.  Jason's presentation was followed by a lively
question and answer period.  The "getting ready for the new year" theme
continued with demos by Alex Goodale of Partition Magic and Nuts & Bolts.  
Geof wrapped things up with a discussion and demo of Norton's SystemWorks.

Attendance at General Meeting - A very healthy 35.

Treasurer's Report - The Treasurer's report was not presented since the
Treasurer was out sick.

Disk Sales/Membership renewals - Total disk sales came to $92.00 for
eighteen PC disk sets, four game sets, one midi set, and six 8-bit disks.  
A total of five free PC disk sets and one 8-bit disk set were given out as
new member bonuses or as a door prize.  A total of 10 members paid their
club dues at the meeting (4 new members and 6 renewals). The list of
non-renewing members list was divided up amongst several board members who
agreed to make follow-up calls.

General Discussion - The newly elected board members agreed on officer
positions:  Geof agreed to serve as Club President, Lu will be
Vice-President, Jorn will be Treasurer, and Mike will serve as club
Secretary.  Bob Mason and Kathy Perrin volunteered to serve as non-titled
board members.

Geof agreed to send Jason Velasco a note of thanks for presenting at the
meeting.  Kathy agreed to contact Adobe and explain that she will prepare
a review of PageMaker and that the customary 90-day review period had to
be extended due to extenuating circumstances.

It was agreed that we do not have sufficient volunteer interest to meet
the computer training needs of the Community for Living Alternatives group
(CLA).  However, it was agreed that several club members would be
available to give CLA staff a two to three hour seminar on computer
basics.

Future Meetings - The February meeting will focus on personal finance and
tax preparation software.  Alex noted that an evaluation copy of Microsoft
Money has arrived and that a copy of Turbo Tax is on its way as well.  
Mike agreed to follow-up with the TaxCut folks to see whether we will
receive an evaluation copy of their software or not.  Jorn will demo
Quicken 99.

Possible topics for March were discussed and it was generally agreed that
a "console/computer/on-line games" theme might work well.  We discussed
setting up demos of Nintendo, Sony's PlayStation, and Internet games.  We
also discussed the possibility of demonstrating the set-up of a 3-D card
and showing the impact it has on the gaming experience.

Meeting adjourned