Washington Area Commodore User Group
Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting
20 March 1999

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

Minutes - Minutes from the February meeting were distributed and read.  
Minutes were amended to read "versions" instead of "verions." The minutes
were then approved as amended.

Comments on General Meeting - Kirt Senser from Starland gave an informed
presentation on various console games and gave us all an advance peek of
Dreamcast from Sega.  Kirt also pitched in and helped demonstate "Need for
Speed" on the PC. We'll keep Kirt in mind for future club meetings dealing
with PC/console entertainment.

Bob Mason's MP3 presentation and discussion also drew a great deal of
interest. Creating compressed audio files hit a nerve with the audience
and the fifteen MP3 starter sets he brought with him sold out fast.

Attendance at General Meeting - Another good turnout at 30.

Treasurer's Report - Jorn Dakin provided both an amended financial report
for January and a statement for February. Both reports were approved as
presented.

Disk Sales/Membership Status - Total disk sales came to $76.00 for
twenty-three PC disk sets and three 8-bit sets.

Kathy Perrin's presentation at the Women's Leadership Conference went very
well and she signed up three new members. Kathy agreed to contact three
individuals on the non-renewal list to complete the series of "reminder"
calls to non-renewing members made over the past several weeks. Geof
Goodrum noted that total membership now stands at around 50.

General Discussion - Reviews for the April edition of the Cursor were
discussed.  Alex Goodale will prepare a review of Money99. Geof will
prepare a review of Adobe's PageMaker.  Mike ten Kate will submit his
review of the BeOS.  Geof noted that he would like to have the Cursor
ready for submission on Wednesdays to give Curry printers enough time to
prepare the Cursor for distribution.

The major topic of discussion was finding a replacement for TIAC as the
club's host ISP.  Geof noted that we can count on TIAC in the near-term to
continue hosting the club's web page. Bob Mason agreed to contact Erol's
to discuss the possibility of hosting the club's web page and providing
email services for club correspondence.  It was agreed that the three
incentives we have to offer are (1)  an appropriate sized ad in each
edition of the Cursor, (2) promotion efforts at club clinic/swap meetings,
and (3) a splash acknowledgement of support on the club's web site.

It was agreed that Bob will ask for the home/small business plus package
which includes domain name services.  Bob will also clarify the domain
name set-up charge and who will pay for this.

Future Meetings - The schedule for the next three meetings is set.  In
April, we will cover alternate operating systems.  Mike will demo the
BeOS, Geof will review Mandrake Linux, and Alex Goodale (along with Dave
Arnold) will demo OpenDOS.  The May meeting will be devoted to a demo by
Bob of Microsoft's Office 2000.  June is reserved for the club's
semi-annual clinic/swap meet.

Meeting adjourned