Washington Area Commodore User Group Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting 21 November 1998 Board Meeting Attendance - Jorn Dakin, Alex Goodale, Geof Goodrum, Bob Mason, Kenley Mays, Kathy Perrin, Lu Spriggs, and Mike ten Kate Minutes - Minutes from the October board meeting were distributed and read. Minutes were approved as read. Comments on General Meeting - Geof briefed on his exciting exploits at Comdex and noted that his participation in APCUG sponsored events yielded specific insights which will help guide the club in the future. (It should be repeated that we appreciate Geof's willingness to spend his time and money to attend an event which benefited the entire club). The demonstration portion of the meeting went well and included presentations by Lance Cutler's brother-in-law who gave a demo of Microsoft's FrontPage98, Mike ten Kate who used a multimedia approach to illustrate some computer basics, and Alex Goodale and Geof Goodrum who presented a hands on demonstration of how to perform a memory upgrade. Everyone in the room got a good view of this thanks to the video camera Geof brought to the meeting. Attendance at General Meeting - A very respectable 26. Treasurer's Report - Jorn Dakin did not distribute a financial report since so little business was done at the October meeting. He did note that the club's current checking balance is $1,736.19 not including the renewals and disk sales from the November meeting. The Treasurer's oral report was accepted as presented. The board also discussed the possibility of putting the club's financials on the web site. Disk Sales/Membership renewals - Total disk sales came to $89.00 for twenty-four PC-disks and six 8-bit disks. Two free PC- disk sets were given out as a door prize and a new member welcome gift. Twelve membership renewals were received at the meeting. General Discussion - Discussion focused on the December help clinic/swap meet and the January meeting. Alex and Bob Mason agreed to handle the preparation and distribution of signs for the December meeting. Geof agreed to handle normal press release announcements for the December meeting. He also said he would prepare draft language for clinic/swap meet participants on what to expect at the December meeting. Annual elections will be held at the club meeting in January. Kathy Perrin is close to completing her work as nominating committee chairperson. The January meeting will be based on a "New Years Resolution" theme that will include discussions on how to prepare your computer for the upcoming year. The idea was raised that perhaps we should include Partition Magic 4.0 in the January discussion. Also, we may be able to arrange to have OnTrack Data International provide a demo of its data management and recovery products at the meeting. Mike will contact OnTrack to see if this can be arranged. Alex mentioned that we also need to begin thinking about the annual "personal finances/tax preparation" theme meeting which we would most likely hold in February. Required demo software packages include Microsoft Money99, Turbo Tax by Intuit, and Tax Cut by H&R Block. Mike said he would look into getting evaluation copies of these software packages. Regarding evaluation software packages, Geof noted that he learned at Comdex that vendors are very serious about receiving written evaluations of their products and they will not hesitate to cut off an entire club from future software offerings if a promised review is not provided. Meeting adjourned