Greenbelt Internet Access Cooperative

Monthly Board Meeting – January 13, 2005

Conference Room, Greenbelt Police Station

 

M E E T I N G   M I N U T E S

 

DIRECTORS:   Mary Camp, Ed James, Doug Love, Neil McLeod

OFFICERS:     Peggy Bates

GUESTS:       Kyla Hanington, Stefan Ivarsson

 

=== PRELIMINARIES ===

 

1.      Meeting called to order at 7:10pm. (Mary Camp)

 

2.      Approval of Agenda (DL moved, EJ seconded, unanimous approval)

 

=== GUEST PRESENTATIONS ===

 

3.      Kyla Hanington and Stefan Ivarsson explained their proposal to establish a Greenbelt International Family Network (GRIFN) website and gave a demo of several pages.  Ms. Hanington will join GIAC to acquire mailbox and webspace while working on the site.  When the City recognizes GRIFN as a non-profit, GIAC will donate the mailbox and webspace.

 

=== MONTHLY REPORTS ===

 

4.      Secretary (Mary Camp) [acting]

·         Approval of meeting minutes

-         December 9 meeting – Minor corrections to produce final minutes. (DL moved, EJ seconded, unanimous approval)

-         Minutes of the Monthly Board Meeting – December 9, 2004

 

5.      Treasurer (Peggy Bates)

·         Financial report

-         Being updated.  Expect profit for 2004 to be negative.

-         Balance Sheet – December 31, 2004

-         Profit & Loss – December 31, 2004

-         Balance Sheet Summary – January-December, 2004

-         Profit & Loss Summary – January-December, 2004

·         Membership report

-         47 dial-up accounts and 8 non-connection accounts.  Total of 90 members.

-         Membership Report – December 31, 2004

 

6.      Vice President (Mary Camp)

·         Planning to have a class in February.

·         Email members about Adobe Reader 7.0 and Thunderbird email program updates available, put in link to download sites.

·         Check with city to see if GIAC is registered for this year.

 

7.      President (Doug Love) [acting]

·         Non-profit organization support.  Not done, will work on this weekend.

·         New Deal Cafe WiFi status.  Has not checked.  Thanked by Board for letter in Greenbelt News Review about WiFi.

·         Still need sign at cafe that WiFi is GIAC sponsored.

 

8.      System Administrator (Peggy Bates / Neil McLeod)

·         Discussion of subscriber access to mailing lists - sophisticated with many options. Discussed method and price to create, add moderator and users to list.

·         No outstanding problems.

 

9.      Webmaster (Neil McLeod)

·         Behind on updating GIAC web pages.

·         Verified list in People directory.

·         Still working on upgrading News Review 's network speed and adding DSL connection.  News Review will drop Greenbelt.com dial up when DSL is working.

·         Has new digital camera, plans for more photos to web pages.

 

10.  Director (Ed James)

·         New Deal Cafe WiFi is up and down.  Has checked with Dorian Winterfeld about how it is working.

·         Waiting for Neil to finish with News Review before able to meet on disk usage script.

·         Will write up agenda for February 10 Board meeting.

 

11.  Audit Committee (Mary Camp) [acting]

·         All but last item done for 2003 audit and then have the report to write.

·         No volunteers for 2004 audit committee.  Mary will do all of 2004 audit, but someone will need to audit her account.

 

=== OLD BUSINESS ===

 

12.  None

 

=== NEW BUSINESS ===

 

13.  None

 

=== CONCLUSION ===

 

14.  Voice/Email Roster         Don't forget to check GIAC@greenbelt.com

Jan 09 - Jan 15   Neil McLeod

Jan 16 - Jan 22   Ed James

Jan 23 - Jan 29   Mary Camp

Jan 30 - Feb 05   Doug Love

Feb 06 - Feb 12   Neil McLeod

 

15.  Action Items

·         Peggy Bates:  Send latest contacts PDF to all, accounts database to Neil; classified ad for News Review about @greenbelt.com address and New Deal hot spot; make questionnaire on service; mail check to Centerway.

·         Mary Camp:  Finish audit; give receipts to Peggy; summary of classes for year to Peggy; send email to members about updated programs and date for all corrections to members' 2004 journal, check GIAC's status with city; correct December minutes, write draft January minutes, send both to the Board.

·         Ed James:  Schedule meeting with Neil to work on Perl program; compile next Board meeting agenda.

·         Doug Love:  Prepare non-profit organization support material.

·         Neil McLeod:  Continue work with News Review on networking their DSL connection; finish testing mailing lists and post approved rates; set up Control Panel test account edjames.com.

 

16.  Scheduled Meetings

·         Monthly Meeting:  7:00pm, Thursday, February 10, at Greenbelt Police Station

-         Minutes of the Monthly Board Meeting – February 10, 2005

 

17.  Meeting adjourned at 9:00pm.

 

 

- 03/07/05 Posted by Mary Camp
- 09/01/05 Edited & reformatted by Neil McLeod