Washington Area Commodore User Group
Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting
15 April 2000

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

Minutes - Minutes from the February meeting were accepted without amendment.
(Note that a board meeting was not held in March.)

Comments on General Meeting - Good demos of Microsoft's PhotoDraw 2000 by
Lance Cutlar and demos of several open source graphics packages by Geof
Goodrum including Image Magic, Blender, and GIMP.

Attendance at General Meeting/Club Membership - Total attendance came to 24.
March meeting total came to 27. Club membership currently stands at 50.

Treasurer's Report/Other Financial Business - The Treasurer's April report
was distributed and accepted without amendment. Club disk sales came to $21
from the sale of seven PC disk sets and $6.00 from the sale of two Linux
CDs.  March club sales came to $21 from the sale of seven PC disk sets and
$21 from the sale of seven Linux CDs.  Bob noted that we have not yet
received the CD software sampler from the APCUG that we will be offering to
club members at $5.00 a CD.

Cursor Production/Software Reviews/Web Site News - Everyone agreed that both
the March and April Cursors looked very good. It was not clear at the
meeting what the deadline for article submissions is for next month's issue
of the Cursor.

The list of outstanding software reviews is as follows.

Partition Magic 5.0 (Assigned to Bob. Received software at December meeting.
Review was originally due by March Cursor.  Review is now two months
overdue.)

Corel Draw 8 (Assigned to Bob, not time sensitive.)

Microsoft PhotoDraw (Assigned to Lance. Received at January meeting.  Review
was originally due by April Cursor. Review is now one month overdue.)

Mike asked that an article on preparing software reviews in the April APCUG
newsletter be reprinted in the May edition of the Cursor.  Bob said he would
scan and OCR the article for publication in the Cursor.

General Discussion - Bob noted that he will follow-up with COMPUSA regarding
the possibility that club members can receive a discount at COMPUSA under
its corporate discount program.

Bob said he is looking into having the club (as a registered 501(c)(3)
non-profit) receive a donation of software/equipment from Microsoft for the
program he runs for Fairfax County.  Geof noted that he will look for the
letter/certificate which shows that the club is a registered 501(c)(3).

Mike ten Kate raised the possibility of email notification of upcoming
meetings to all current and lapsed club members.  We discussed the option of
adding a line to the club renewal form that would ask that ask applicants to
"opt-out" from receiving such a notification. Geof said he make the
necessary changes to the form.

We discussed the possibility of replacing our ailing club laptop with an IBM
ThinkPad.  Geof said he will research potential options (new and used) and
report back at the next board meeting.

We briefly discussed the proposed charters for each of our SIGs.  Bob noted
that a deadline for submission of the charters will be established at an
upcoming board meeting.

Future Meetings - Mike mentioned that Debra Pfundstein from Microsoft had to
cancel her "Living the Web Lifestyle" presentation scheduled for May.  Mike
will work with Debra to see if her presentation can be rescheduled for July
or August.  As a result, the May 20 meeting will  be devoted exclusively to
web page development.  Bob will check with our scheduled presenter to see
whether he can fill the entire program.  Bob said he will be prepared to
discuss CuteFTP to round out the program if necessary.

Bill Walsh agreed to demo CD-RW technology at the July meeting and using
dual monitors at the August meeting.

Meeting adjourned