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Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
Tuesday, June 7, 2005

The meeting was called to order at 7:15pm.

Present were Board Members Cathy Doser, Mike Grueter, Karen Lindner, Caryn Roberts, and Allan Swensson, as well as members Richard Harrell and Wil Nelson.

  1. The May minutes were approved with a minor typo correction.
  2. Treasurer's Report - Karen reported that our checking account contains $1,686.33, and our savings account contains $2,621.55, for a total of $4,307.88 as of 5/31/05.
  3. Old Business
    1. Capital Improvement (Resource Center Upgrades) - Cathy will mail the letter to our current membership and will rework the letter for the web.
    2. Exchange Update Project
      1. Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) Server was purchased.
    3. Fundraising
      1. Karen and Wil are talking about possibly running a MacBasics class
      2. Mike and Baiss are looking into running a Beginning WebObjects class.
      3. Bill Campbell is still on tap for a UNIX class.
    4. The Website has been updated regularly with new content. No major structural changes have taken place.
    5. Newsletter - Dick has the MacNews schedule through the rest of the year. He will work with Caryn and Dona as well as content providers to ensure a smooth process. All content should be delivered to Dick no later than 2 weeks prior to each Main Meeting, and the finalized PDF (short version) should be complete no later than 1 week prior to each Main Meeting.
    6. InfoLine - All technical requests that come into the InfoLine (voice or e-mail) will be forwarded to the dBug Mentors conference by the InfoLine Manager(s). All dBug Mentors will then have equal access to help requests and potential paid work.
    7. dbug.com Domain - Cathy will send Mike info about ICANN domain name retrieval so we can get our dbug.com domain back.
    8. Incoming fax capabilities - Mike will contact AccessLine to see how this works.
    9. Incoming Resource Center phone calls - Mike will contact AccessLine to increase the number of rings before forwarding to voice mail from 1 to 4.
  4. New Business
    1. Special Interest Groups
      1. We would like to revitalize our SIGs.
      2. Karen Lindner suggested we ask Michelle to look for a Publicity Manager.
      3. Mike will hold a SIG Leader meeting to cover publicity and building attendance.
    2. Karen will organize a cleanup party for the back room in the Resource Center.
    3. Online Payments
      1. Kagi charges us 10% for our online credit card payments.
      2. Jack Connick reported that PayPal allows credit card payments without making the end-user setting up an account, and that they would only charge 4%.
      3. Karen noted that we have not been able to modify our PayPal account our Treasurer volunteer changed.
      4. Mike will try to configure and use our PayPal account.
    4. Unscheduled Resource Center Use
      1. Resource Center Key-holders (SIG Leaders, Event Coordinators, SysOps, etc.) are allowed access to the RC at unscheduled times.
      2. Key-holders may schedule open RC time (on the online calendar) to ensure no interruptions, or drop-in with no expectation of exclusivity.
      3. If a key-holder is hosting the RC for personal profit, a rental fee of $25 per hour is required.
    5. Upcoming Monthly Events
      1. June - Tiger Overview
      2. July - Bohonus QTVR and another presenter
      3. August - Picnic: 6pm at Meridian Park
      4. September - Adobe
      5. October - ?
      6. November - ?
      7. December - Holiday Party
    6. Communications - Letter from Kathryn Whitacre
  5. The Good of dBug

The meeting was adjourned at 9:40pm.

- Mike Grueter, Scribe