GIAC 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

Present: Mary Camp (Acting Chair), Peggy Bates, Ed James, Doug Love (arrived at 
7:45) 

=== Preliminaries ===

The meeting was called to order at 7:10 PM (no quorum).

=== Visitor Presentations ===

=== Monthly Reports ===

Secretary (Mary Camp, Acting)
    * January 13 meeting minutes minor corrections will be made and approved at 
March meeting. 

Treasurer (Peggy Bates )
    * financial report   January net income negative due to extra for wireless 
      support at New Deal Cafe (NDC) and GIAC ad in Greenbelt NewsReview (GNR). 
    * passed out latest membership list.
    * put ad about GIAC in GRN, had 3 requests for memebership kits from it. 
    * membership   47 dial-up accounts and 8 non-connection accounts. Total of 
      90 members.

Vice President's Report (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 Mar/Apr. 
    * 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 projector has working with 
      the laptop.   

President's Report (none)

System Administrator's Report (Peggy Bates)
    * no outstanding problems.
    * checked on Wi-Fi at NDC, it is up and running. Gave NDC signs that Wi-Fi 
      is sponsored by GIAC, have not been posted yet.

Webmaster's Report (Neil McLeod  - absent)

Director's Report (Ed James)
    * New Deal Caf‚ replaced their WAP. 
    * waiting for Neil to finish with News Review before able to meet on disk 
      usage script.
    * will write up agenda for Thursday March 10th board meeting.

Director's Report (Doug Love)
    * non-profit organization support discussion   not done, will finish by 
      March 1st.

=== Old Business ===

Audit committee (Mary Camp, Acting)
    * all but last item done for 2003 audit and then have the report to write.

=== New Business ===

    * 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 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 web site.

=== Conclusion ===

Voice and Email Roster: Don't forget to check GIAC@greenbelt.com
    * Feb 13    Feb 19    Ed James
    * Feb 20     Feb 26   Mary Camp
    * Feb 27    Mar 05    Ed James
    * Mar 06    Mar 12   Neil McLeod
    * Mar 13    Mar 19   Ed James 

Next Meeting
    * 7:00 p.m. on Thursday March 10th at the Greenbelt police station.

Action Items
    * 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 mtg. 
    * Mary Camp   finish audit; make PDF files from membership forms; get 
      Firefox user manual for class; check with Neil about Wi-Fi card for the 
      laptop; install new video driver on laptop and see if that will fix laptop/
      projector problem; find Norton Anti-virus 03 bill for Peggy; 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

The meeting adjourned at 8:22 PM


Respectfully submitted,
Mary Camp
April 17, 2005

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