GIAC

Monthly Board Meeting

May 13, 2004. Police Station

MINUTES

Present: Douglas Love (Chair), Peggy Bates, Mary Camp, Ed James & Neil McLeod

=== PRELIMINARIES ===

The meeting was called to order at 7:15 PM

The agenda was approved unanimously.

The minutes of the April (8th) meeting were approved unanimously.

=== Monthly Reports ===

Secretary (Mary Camp)

* corrected March 11th minutes sent to all. Doug did not receive, will be resent to him.

Treasurer (Peggy Bates)

* no change in membership - 52 subscribers.

* projected year-to-date is $626.85.

Vice President’s Report (Mary Camp)

* 3 people attended ‘How to Can Spam’ on 5/05 (Wed) by Neil McLeod.

* future class topics may include free alternatives to MicroSoft Office, ‘How to Buy a Computer’,

buying a digital camera, spyware, firewalls, viruses.

* need list of email addresses to inform users of classes.

President’s Report (Doug Love)

* Leonie Penney has resigned as Secretary effective with the end of her term.

Alexander Barnes emailed his resignation to the board - it was accepted.

* discussed to-do items for Annual Meeting on June 1st: Dining Rm #2 reserved, Elizabeth Hubley

will provide refreshments. Will request at annual meeting help with 501C3 tax-empt papers from

Maryland.

* meet at Peggy’s 7:00pm on Friday May 21st to prepare for annual meeting.

* Mary will buy Avery postcards for annual meeting notice. To be sent to membership on May 22nd

* bought dial-up service and signed contract with IKANO.

System Administrator’s Report (Peggy Bates and Neil McLeod)

* dial-up activated May 7^th in preparation for ISP transfer.

* documentation being prepared for users to transfer. Users will be emailed about transfer and mailed

instructions on May 15.

* ISP transfer to take place on Thursday May 20^th. Mail on Delmarva will be available until May 31st.

* websites have been transferred to new ISP and will updated at domain transfer.

* user who’s computer was hijacked for spamming has been cleaned and greenbelt.com domain has

been removed from Spam Cop’s blacklist.

* will investigate virus and spam filtering with new ISP and possibility of buying Spam Soap

Webmster’s Report (Neil McLeod)

* items reported in Sysman report.

Director’s Report (Ed James)

* will write up agenda for next Board Meeting on Wednesday June 9^th.

* will look into WiFi and who has it.

=== OLD BUSINESS ===

Legal Committee (Doug Love)

* No committee report (see President’s report above).

Audit committee

* Mary Camp reported she and Gil Lee met. Have not finished, so far no discrepancies outside of

account number on work order.

Next Meeting

* 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday June 9 th at the Greenbelt police station.

Voice and Email Roster: Don’t forget to check GIAC@greenbelt.com

* May 09 – May 15 Leonie Penney

* May 16 – May 22 Mary Camp

* May 23 – May 29 Doug Love

* May 30 – Jun 05 Neil McLeod

* Jun 06 – Jun 12 Ed James

Action Items

* Peggy Bates – make postcards, annual meeting preparation

* Mary Camp – schedule audit committee meeting, write and send draft May minutes, final April to

board, and resend final March to Doug. Buy postcards for Peggy.

* Ed James – compile next Board meeting agenda.

* Doug Love – prepare for annual meeting.

* Neil McLeod – work on preparing to move GIAC from Boonet.

The meeting adjourned at 8:40 PM

Respectfully submitted,

Mary Camp