Greenbelt Internet Access Cooperative

Monthly Board Meeting – February 10, 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 (arrived 7:45) (Absent: Neil McLeod)

OFFICERS: Peggy Bates

=== PRELIMINARIES ===

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

2. Approval of Agenda [no quorum]

=== GUEST PRESENTATIONS ===

=== MONTHLY REPORTS ===

3. Secretary (Mary Camp)

· Approval of meeting minutes

- January 13 meeting – Will make minor corrections to draft minutes and approve at March meeting

4. Treasurer (Peggy Bates)

· Financial report

- January net income negative due to extra for wireless support at New Deal Café (NDC) and GIAC ad in Greenbelt News Review (GNR).

- Balance Sheet – January 31, 2005

- Profit & Loss – January 31, 2005

· Membership report

- Passed out latest membership list. 47 dial-up accounts and 8 non-connection accounts. Total of 90 members.

- Membership Report – January 31, 2005

· Placed ad about GIAC in GNR, had 3 requests for membership kits from it.

5. Vice President (Mary Camp)

· Planning to have a class in late March on Firefox and Thunderbird.

· Emailed members about volunteering to teach classes and/or send ideas – no response at this time.

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

· Contacted Community Center about GIAC’s city recognition for 2005. Told to check in March/April.

· Sent membership kits to 3 people who requested them.

· Gave Peggy list of 2004 classes and receipts for Mary’s GIAC purchases over the last few years.

· Downloaded new driver that may fix problem the laptop has working with the projector.

6. President [vacant]

7. System Administrator (Peggy Bates)

· No outstanding problems.

· WiFi at NDC is up and running. Gave NDC signs showing that WiFi is sponsored by GIAC - signs have not been posted yet.

8. Webmaster (Neil McLeod) [absent]

9. Director (Ed James)

· New Deal Café replaced their wireless router.

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

· Will write up agenda for March 10 Board meeting.

10. Director (Doug Love)

· Non-profit organization support discussion – not done, will finish by March 1.

11. Audit Committee (Mary Camp) [acting]

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

12. Legal Committee (Neil McLeod) [acting]

· Old action items

· New action items

=== OLD BUSINESS ===

13. None

=== NEW BUSINESS ===

14. Additions to Agenda

· Discussed motion put before the Board in an email by Neil McLeod. No quorum for a vote.

· Ed will take on Doug’s voice/email weeks.

· Discussed creating and posting on GIAC home page the membership forms as PDF files. Mary will make the files for Peggy.

· Discussed updating GIAC webpage layout, tentative meeting date March 12 or 19 at Police station for this.

· Discussed revising GIAC Officer and Director duties to reflect empty positions.

· Discussed creating a list of specific, short-term items that members can volunteer to do. Would put list on GIAC website.

=== CONCLUSION ===

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

Feb 06 – Feb 12 Neil McLeod

Feb 13 - Feb 19 Ed James

Feb 20 - Feb 26 Mary Camp

Feb 27 - Mar 05 Ed James

Mar 06 - Mar 12 Neil McLeod

16. Action Items from Today's Meeting

· Peggy Bates: Send latest contacts PDF to all, accounts database to Neil; make questionnaire on service; see if mailed check to Centerway; email Board when available for webpage update meeting.

· Mary Camp: Finish audit; make PDF files from membership forms; get Firefox user manual for class; check with Neil about WiFi card for the laptop; install new video driver on laptop and see if that will fix laptop/projector problem; and correct January minutes, write draft February minutes, send both to the Board.

· Ed James: Schedule meeting with Neil to work on Perl program; schedule Police Station meeting room for monthly Board meetings for rest of the year; also reserve room for web page update meeting; compile next Board meeting agenda.

· Doug Love: Prepare non-profit organization support material and email to the Board by March 1.

· Neil McLeod: [absent]

17. Scheduled Meetings

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

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

18. Meeting adjourned at 8:22pm.

- 04/17/05 Posted by Mary Camp
- 09/01/05 Edited & reformatted by Neil McLeod