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Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Attending: Board Members Tom Auciello, Cathy Doser, Mike Grueter, John Livingston, and Dona McAdam, as well as members Kent Kammerer, Richard Knights (Treasurer), Wil Nelson, and Caryn Roberts, and Bruce Robertson.

The meeting was called to order at 7:12pm.

  1. Member Kent Kammerer asked if another organization he is a member of (Seattle Neighborhood Coalition) could have their web site hosted on dBug's server. The web site is static in nature and would serve their group of 400+ members. They do not require e-mail services. They would maintain and update their own site via SFTP access. They would link to our site from theirs. The BoD decided that charging members $50 per year for services like this would be good. Mike will let Kent know.
  2. John moved to accept the February minutes as written, Tom seconded the motion, and the motion was approved unanimously.
  3. Treasurer's report - $2,379 in our bank account after expenses.
  4. Old Business
    1. Capital Improvement Project - Resource Center Upgrades
      1. Sale of Old Projector - Evan Kentop and dBug will enter into a seal bid to purchase the projector. Evan and Mike will meet to complete this business.
    2. Exchange Update Project
      1. No new news.
    3. Fundraising Ideas
      1. Classes - to be held following the Saturday Cafés (after 12:30pm), weekdays, or Sunday afternoons.
        1. A Motion Training Seminar by Kevin Monahan and the Digital Video SIG was held on February 25th. Twenty people attended and dBug made $400.
        2. Beginning UNIX by Bill Campbell will be held on March 10th.
        3. Mac Maintenance by Wil Nelson will be held on March 31st.
        4. FileMaker Pro class by Bruce Robertson is targeting April.
        5. iWeb class by Mike Grueter will repeat in April.
        6. Xcode/Cocoa class is targeting May.
        7. Office with John Livingston - May 20th
        8. WebObjects Basics?
        9. Leopard Upgrade?
        10. iCal?
        11. Genealogy?
        12. Migrating to Mac from Windows? + Parallels
      2. Member Bill Campbell knows Tim Mayer, who runs classes on UNIX/Linux, Perl, Shell, etc. at about 3 or 4 per month. Cathy will work with Bill to connect with Tim to see if he is interested in using our RC instead of hotels for his classes.
    4. Web Site
      1. Mike Grueter reported that normal maintenance and article updates were done this month.
    5. Newsletter - Dona and Karen finished the March mailer and it was mailed on February 3rd. The full web PDF will be finished and online soon.
    6. Bylaws Revision - Tom will e-mail the revisions to the rest of the BoD and we'll meet separately to discuss them.
    7. Corporate Sponsors - Mike and Joe Heck have been trading ideas via e-mail.
    8. Dropped membership exit interviews - Bruce sent Tom a list of members who have not renewed in the last six months. Tom will start e-mailing people to find out why they have not renewed. Bruce will also send Cathy a full list of all ex-members since the start of dBug.
    9. Cathy will ask Gordon for his list of SIG attendees.
    10. Discussion and suggestions for our "dBug/Leopard" postcard.
    11. 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.
    12. 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. Wil Nelson will as Henry and/or Stacy if they can do the job. Cathy suggested that we forgo paper sign-in sheets in favor of a web application. She will create a specification document for Mike.
    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. Contact ex-members (Tom). Focus on increasing the awareness of the value of being a member. Visit and speak at SIGs that have attendees who aren't members, and ask SIG Leaders to prompt for new members every month.
    14. When ExChange validation requests come in, Mike will verify with Richard Knights if the person has current membership status, and relay that info to the validation conference which is checked by Cherie Nickel.
  5. New Business
    1. Epiphany School in Seattle
    2. Upcoming Main Meetings
      1. March - Parallels at least one copy of Parallels
      2. April - maintenance tools
      3. Future ideas - King County's hazardous waste or electronics recycling (John) or www.interconnect.org, Real Change, Leopard (after release)
      4. Canon cameras
      5. Backup solutions
    3. Cathy and Dona have each created a postcard sized, Leopard-focussed, dBug advertisement. We'll look at both and pick the best features to use. We hope to have a version ready to print by the end of March, though we'll wait to print it until days before Leopard's release incase anything changes.

The meeting was adjourned at 9:09pm.

- Mike Grueter, Scribe