Washington Area Commodore User Group
Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting
11 December 1999

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

Minutes - Minutes from the November board meeting were read and approved
without amendment.

Comments on General Meeting - Good meeting with particularly high interest
in the clinic portion of the program.

Attendance at General Meeting - About 20 to 25 people attended.

Treasurer's Report/Other Financial Business - The December report was
distributed and accepted without amendment.  Geof Goodrum gave Jorn Dakin
$286.00 in club dues from renewing members.  Disk sales came to $35.

Cursor Production/Software Reviews - Geof noted that we need to get the
Cursor out early next month since the January meeting will not be held on
January 15th as originally planned.  Due to room scheduling conflicts at the
government center, the meeting date has been moved to January 29th.  As a
result, the deadline for getting articles to Kathy Perrin is December 18.
Geof also noted that we still have a "run over" problem on the newsletter
masthead.  We also briefly discussed the use of egroups.com which is an
internet-based document vault service.  This service might play some role in
posting articles for inclusion in the Cursor.  Kathy said she would look
into this.

Geof gave Kathy an evaluation copy of Print Office from Corel. Mike ten Kate
agreed that in the future he will handle mailing copies of the Cursor and a
cover letter to vendors who are due a product review.

General Discussion - We reviewed the web hosting comparison sheet Geof put
together and voted to go with the APCUG service.  Geof said he would contact
APCUG to set up our account.

Geof asked about the status of the Virginia Corporation Report which Mike
ten Kate has.  Mike said he would check the due date on the form and make
sure it gets filed before the deadline.

The board agreed to indicate a willingness to purchase 25 shareware disks
(this is the minimum order) being offered by the APCUG for $1.44 apiece.
Geof said he would contact APCUG regarding the planned purchase. If these
disks sell well, we can always order more later.

Future Meetings - Bob noted that the room schedule for next year's meetings
has been finalized and he promised to send each board member a copy of the
schedule.  The January meeting will be set aside for club elections,
beginner's day, a demonstration of dual monitors by Bill Walsh, and a short
demonstration by Lance Cutlar on cable modems.  The February meeting will
involve our annual review of personal finance and tax software.  Bob Mason
will demo Turbo Tax.  Mike will demo Tax Cut.  Mike will also check with
Microsoft's local representative to see whether she can present some of
Microsoft's personal finance software such as Money 2000.  The March meeting
will feature "computer graphics" as the theme and we expect a representative
from BladePro to demonstrate a plug-in product for Adobe products. We also
plan to demo CorelDraw and other graphics packages such as the open-source
GIMP product. Mike will check with the BladePro representative to see how
much time he will need for his demo.

Meeting  adjourned