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Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
Tuesday, January 2, 2007

Attending: Board Members Tom Auciello, Cathy Doser, Mike Grueter, John Livingston, and Dona McAdam.

The meeting was called to order at 7:20pm.

  1. The minutes for October, November, and December minutes were approved by the 2006 Board via e-mail.
  2. 2007 Board Members Tom Auciello, Cathy Doser, Mike Grueter, John Livingston, and Dona McAdam were officially sworn in.
  3. Cathy Doser was unanimously elected as 2007 President of dBug.
  4. Richard Knights was chosen by Cathy Doser as 2007 dBug Treasurer and unanimously approved by the rest of the BoD.
  5. Treasurer's report - dBug has $3,840.36 in the bank.
  6. Old Business
    1. Capital Improvement Project - Resource Center Upgrades
      1. Projection Screen Upgrade - no new news.
      2. Sale of Old Projector - Evan Kentop has been contacted via e-mail. No response yet. Caryn Roberts offered $200 for the projector, but Cathy thought it would be good to rent it out for $25 per weekend for members. Mike will offer Evan $100 for the projector. We also discussed purchasing a new internal dual-layer SuperDrive to put in our existing external CD burner. Caryn and Cathy will pick one up from Fry's.
    2. Exchange Update Project
      1. Curtis sent a summary of E-Plan activity which is available on the Board Room conference on the ExChange. Caryn and Cathy noted that Apple offers our MUG 2 unlimited licenses of Apple Remote Desktop 3. They will forward the info on to Curtis. We need new PRAM batteries for the ExChange and web servers.
    3. Fundraising
      1. Classes - to be held following the Saturday Cafés (after 12:30pm), weekdays, or Sunday afternoons.
        1. Mike Grueter will lead a class on iWeb on January 27th.
        2. Beginning UNIX could be held again in February. Bill will get back to Mike with a date.
        3. Mac Maintenance could be held again in March. Wil has been contacted via e-mail. No response yet.
        4. FileMaker Pro class with Bruce Robertson - Mike will contact Bruce to see when it will be scheduled. We recommend Basics - find a simple book to teach to.
        5. Quarterly Xcode/Cocoa classes with the Xcoder SIG folks - Mike will contact Joe Heck to see when it will be scheduled.
        6. Office?
        7. WebObjects Basics?
        8. Genealogy?
        9. Migrating to Mac from Windows? + Paralells
    4. Web Site
      1. Mike Grueter reported that normal maintenance and article updates were done this month. The older iMac that was used as dBug's web server has been reformatted with a clean install of Panther and all updates. It is now in the main room at the RC available for member use.
      2. Cathy suggested that we replace the "Support dBug" text with two "web badge" links: 1 for dBug Recommends and 1 for Amazon direct.
    5. Newsletter - Dona and Karen finished the January issue and will have it online by January 3rd.
    6. Bylaws Revision - the December meeting did not happen due to power outages and illnesses. The committee will likely meet later this month to continue the process.
    7. Corporate Sponsors - Mike replied to Joe Heck that the BoD is interested and would like to follow up with the two developers that expressed interest.
    8. Dropped membership exit interviews - Tom will start e-mailing people with recently lapsed memberships.
    9. There was additional discussion about the benefits of being a dBug Member. Some ideas include: renting equipment to members, making some classes cheaper for members, 1 free raffle ticket at each main meeting, note that parking is free at the Resource Center, create a nicer updated online community.
    10. Someone needs to pickup the sign-in sheets at the RC, transcribe them to digital form, and send the e-mail addresses to Sandro once per month. Henry and/or Stacy were suggested. Dona will ask them at the next Cafe. Cathy suggested that we forgo paper sign-in sheets in favor of a web application. She will create a specification document for Mike.
    11. Mike will ask Richard to put MacNews mailing labels and stamps into his regular routine.
    12. In order to simplify the MacNews editor's job, Mike Grueter, John Livingston, Chris Matzen, Wil Nelson, Caryn Roberts, and Bruce Robertson have agreed to write articles for MacNews on a yearly schedule. We currently have at least 1 article per month scheduled, with the goal of 3 or 4 scheduled articles per month with more writers on board. All writers have been alerted to their schedules and dues dates, and have been asked to submit their articles to Dona McAdam and Karen Lindner. Cathy will find other MUGs with article content we can repurpose as well.
    13. How can we grow our membership? Cathy is planning a small focus group with some mid-twenties Mac users to see what they want in a MUG. UW does not currently have a MUG. Cathy will call UW bookstore and Ed from Digital Video SIG to see if we can get some promotional materials on campus. Leopard campaign - canvas the Apple Stores and hand out promotional material to people waiting in line to buy Leopard. Dona will work on postcard. Send ideas to her.
  7. New Business
    1. Upcoming Main Meetings
      1. January - Macworld recap on 3rd Wednesday
      2. February - VOIP with Tom Auciello and Fred Taub
      3. March - Parallels?
    2. Who is validating ExChange logins? The auto-registration notices need to be seen and OKed/rejected by the Treasurer, then Cherie Nickel needs to be notified so she can validate the new user. Mike will ask Richard about this.
    3. We should use the "Board of Directors" and "Board Room" conferences to communicate and get stuff done each month between Board meetings. Some Board members don't have access. Curtis has been notified and will make sure everyone can view and post messages.

The meeting was adjourned at 9:32pm.

- Mike Grueter, Scribe