Wednesday, January 8, 2003
Present: Don Arbow, Jim Damico, Mike Grueter, Karen Lindner, Dick Carter, Allan Swensson and Nancy Siburg.
The first order of business was to select a board member to replace Jack Alton. Karen nominated Allan Swensson to fill the vacancy on the board. Don Arbow seconded the nomination and Allan was unanimously approved.
Karen then nominated Don Arbow for president. Mike seconded and Don was unanimously approved.
Don appointed Karen Lindner to serve as Treasurer, which she accepted.
Don reported that Dana Klein is looking into recovering the dbug.com domain name which lapsed on April 2002. Karen will get a credit card to aid in applying for the automatic domain name renewal. Mike Grueter and Karen Lindner will be signers on the cc. Don will also ask Dana to change the admin contact for our domain names to Don.
Don will switch dBug's domain name registrar from Verisign to another registrar like Dotster or Tucows.
Jim moved we purchase a fireproof cabinet for $370.00 from Office Depot unless a cheaper one is found within a week. Karen seconded the motion and it was unanimously approved. Mike offered to pick it up and deliver it to the Resource Center.
Mike has finished a new membership CD. He will get in touch with Kelly McDonnell and/or Kurt Ofsthus for duplication and packaging.
The Main Meeting schedule was discussed and tentatively is:
Feb. 12 with Glenn Fleishman
May - dBug Expo/swap meet
August - Mac/UNIX "love fest"
August - picnic
October - Mac Business Expo
November - New Apple store in Bellevue
December - Holiday party
Mike asked about having an official Main Meeting committee to handle all of the Main Meetings. No decision was reached after discussion.
Karen asked for input for the upcoming calendar/newsletter, which is almost ready for publishing. Mike will ask Dan Neal to write up a review of Macworld Expo in San Francisco.
The Resource Center relocation was discussed. The building north of the RC is one possibility but other options are going to be investigated.
Don and Mike will meet with Jay and/or Dana to learn what is involved in maintaining the Exchange, the phone lines and DSL services. Also, they will look into including more members to learn and be responsible for Exchange-related tasks.
The next board meeting will be at the RC on February 5th.
The meeting was adjourned at approximately 9:30 PM.
Nancy Siburg, Scribe
