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Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
Tuesday, September 5, 2006

Attending: Board Members Tom Auciello, Mike Grueter, Dona McAdam, and Allan Swensson, as well as Members Karen Lindner and Wil Nelson.

The meeting was called to order at 7:16pm.

  1. The June draft minutes were modified to change the adjournment time to to 8:28pm, and note the Board members that made and seconded motions. Tom moved to accept the amended minutes, Dona seconded the motion, and the motion was approved unanimously.
  2. The Treasurer reported that dBug has about $3,150 in the bank which is down from the last report because we had no Main Meeting since June, no MacNews in July, and we spent some money on the picnic. We recommend moving the picnic back to August and having a July Main Meeting next year.
  3. Old Business
    1. Capital Improvement Project - Resource Center Upgrades
      1. Projection Screen Upgrade - no new news.
      2. Evan has the old projector in his possession and is trying to sell it. Mike will contact him and see how it is going.
    2. Exchange Update Project
      1. The ExChange survey is done, authentication via LDAP is being tested, the next step is to pick or build the program that will replace FirstClass.
      2. The donated G4 Sawtooth is running FirstClass more smoothly.
    3. Fundraising
      1. Classes - to be held following the Saturday Cafés (after 12:30pm), weekdays, or Sunday afternoons.
        1. Mac Maintenance - June 17th - 7 attendees, successful
        2. WebObjects Basics - June 24th - 6 attendees, successful
        3. UNIX Basics - July 15th - 5 attendees, successful
        4. Office Setup - August 12th - 4 attendees, successful
        5. FileMaker Pro class with Bruce Robertson - Mike will contact Bruce to see when it will be scheduled.
        6. Quarterly Xcode/Cocoa classes with the Xcoder SIG folks - Mike will contact Joe Heck to see when it will be scheduled.
    4. Web Site
      1. Mike Grueter reported that normal maintenance and article updates were done this month, as well as the addition of the new Genealogy SIG area.
    5. Newsletter
      1. The August issue of MacNews is complete and in the mailing process. The September issue is in progress. dBug needs a new editor and reporters. Mike will post a volunteer request to the web site.
    6. Main Meeting
      1. The picnic in July was excellent and the BoD recommends the same location (Hamlin Park in Shoreline) next year. If we have the picnic in the middle of the day as we did this year, we should move the date back to the traditional August so that we can have a Main Meeting in July.
    7. The new Social Security Disability Membership information has been added to the dBug web site and Kagi.
    8. Volunteer Checklist on dBug Web Page - nothing new yet
    9. The first meeting of the new Genealogy SIG is on for October 5th.
  4. New Business
    1. Upcoming Main Meetings
      1. September - FileMaker Pro 8.5
      2. October - Christmas cards and calendars in iPhoto, holiday photo web pages in iWeb?
      3. November Meeting - Omni? or Delicious?
      4. December - Holiday Party
    2. Board Elections - we need an elections committee (Nancy?, Karen, Bill?, Dick?). Voting in October, November ballot counting, January new Board.
    3. The new projector has two problems: 1 the color has degraded, it is washed out and muddy, 2 the vertical adjustability is maybe an inch at most. Karen will get the receipt to Mike and Mike will attempt to return it for a replacement.
    4. Mike will start planning an iWeb class on building and hosting simple web sites (.Mac, Comcast, Verizon?) Possibly show a quick preview at an upcoming Main Meeting. Schedule the class for late October.
    5. Karen is leaving and dBug needs a new Treasurer. BoD Members will ask other dBug Members if they can take over this critical volunteer position.
    6. In order to simplify the MacNews editor's job, the Board proposes that we schedule 12 Members to write 1 article each per year. The articles should be planned to print around the time of a class or main meeting related to the topic. The writers should sign-up for a specific month and have their article in at least a week prior to print time. Suggested writers are Wil, Mike, John, Bruce, Lon, Chris, Dan. Mike will contact them and see if they are interested.
    7. Wil proposed a new Membership type called the "Classic Mac Membership". New Members would pay $100 for their first year of dBug Membership and also get a used Mac.
    8. Will will host another Mac Maintenance class on November 4th.

The meeting was adjourned at 9:07pm.

- Mike Grueter, Scribe