Washington Area Commodore User Group
Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting
18 September 1999

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

Minutes - Minutes from the August board meeting were read.  Minutes were
amended to remove the reference to Bob Mason's discovery that the club owed
him $8 in overpaid disk sales from the July meeting.  Bob discovered this
after the August board meeting.  Minutes were approved as amended.

Comments on General Meeting - Very good meeting with a presentation on Road
Runner high speed internet access and a demo of Microsoft Publisher by Lance
Cutlar and Kathy Perrin.

Attendance at General Meeting -  A very healthy 35.

Treasurer's Report -  August report accepted without amendment.

Disk Sales/Membership Status - August disk sales came to $41(13 PC disk sets
and one give-away as a door prize).  Bob took deducted the $8 due him and
gave Jorn Dakin $33.  Membership now stands at 63.

General Discussion -  Bob agreed to follow-up with MalekTips (a web-based
computer tips site) which has offered to make its tips available for
publication in our newsletter in return for a link to the site on our web
page.

Geof Goodrum noted that he had just mailed a letter to PatriotNet regarding
sponsoring the club's web and email hosting needs.

Bob noted that he will give Kathy Perrin 100 color inserts for next month's
Cursor which provide details on his Learning Center Partnership (a computer
training class for local area youth) which he is running for the county.

Geof pointed out that Alex Goodale believes the 8-bit and Amiga SIGs may be
on their last legs.  He is simply running out of new material in these
areas.

Future Meetings -  It was agreed that the theme for the October meeting will
be "killer" shareware.  Mike ten Kate agreed to present a number of
shareware programs including the ClipMate program from Thornsoft.  Bob said
he could demo his favorite shareware as well.  We agreed to coordinate by
email on the specifics of the meeting.

Mike noted that he had not yet received a reply from the Hewlett-Packard
representative who indicated she might be able to demo some HP products for
us.  Mike agreed to follow-up with her.  We briefly discussed some options
for later meetings including a presentation on DSL from Bell Atlantic,
encryption software, the StarOffice Suite, and CD-R/RW technology.

Meeting  adjourned