Washington Area Commodore User Group Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting 18 July 1998 Board Meeting Attendance - Jorn Dakin, Geof Goodrum, Bob Mason, Kathryn Perrin, Lu Spriggs, and Mike ten Kate. Minutes - Minutes from the June board meetings were distributed and read. Correction made to change "Geof Goodale" to "Geof Goodrum" and the Cursor article deadline was changed from "July 6" to "July 25." The Minutes were then approved as amended. Comments on General Meeting - Good demonstration of digital cameras. Sony's Mavica ruled the day in terms of numbers and quality (maybe). Attendance at General Meeting - 18 Club Membership - Current club membership remains unchanged at around 50. Treasurer's Report - Jorn Dakin distributed and discussed the club's July financial report which showed a year-to-date income of $1030.00, year-to-date expenses of $1,645.75 and a current checking balance of $1,785.67. The Treasurer's report was accepted without amendment. Disk Sales - Total sales were $47.00 broken down as follows: eleven PC disk sets ($33.00), six VB library sets ($12.00), and one 8-bit disk ($2.00). General Discussion - Geof Goodrum noted that the APCUG logo has been added to the club's website. He added that the phone line is now working in the Government Center and thus we should not have problems connecting to the Internet when conducting demos in the future. Bob Mason noted that all the major office suites are now installed on the club's laptop. Kathyrn Perrin asked whether we should conduct a members survey to determine what types of topics we might want to cover at future meetings. It was agreed that this idea is worth following up on and Geof said he would look into raising this in The Cursor. Kathryn noted she had ran into significantly difficulties getting an electronic copy of The Cursor to Geof for publishing because of the size of the file and other complicating factors. Ultimately, the file had to be hand delivered to Geof. Kathryn noted that an Adobe representative had been in touch with her and that an evaluation copy of Adobe's PageMaker is on the way. PageMaker will be used to produce future editions of The Cursor. Kathryn noted we should keep our eyes open for her assessment of PageMaker in a future edition of The Cursor. Plans for Future Meetings - Plans for the August meeting are set. Mike ten Kate will give an updated demo on the final release of Windows 98 and Geof will give a demo of the latest version of the Linux OS offered by Red Hat. Given the potential high interest in these two topics, Geof said he would make sure to get the word out early regarding the topics we plan to cover at the August meeting. Mike pointed out that Microsoft is sending two copies of Windows 98. One copy will be used by Mike to prep are a review for The Cursor. The other copy will be loaded on the club's computer. It was agreed that part of the Windows 98 demo will include the installation process itself and selections from a taped presentation prepared by Microsoft. Future meeting possibilities included a demo of Front Page 98 by Lance Cutlar's brother and a demo of Microsoft Publisher by Lance's wife. It was suggested that Kathryn might want to team up with Lance's wife and present a demo of Adobe's Pagemaker. The theme for this meeting would of course be desktop publishing. We also discussed the possibility of having an "audio" theme meeting where we could cover such topics as advances made in computer speakers, downloading CD music samples off the Web, etc. Meeting adjourned.