GIAC Monthly Board Meeting - March 10, 2005
Conference Room, Greenbelt Police Station

M E E T I N G   M I N U T E S

Present: Peggy Bates, Mary Camp, Ed James, Neil McLeod 

=== Preliminaries ===

The meeting was called to order at 7:03 PM (EJ moved, NM seconded).
The agenda approved unanimously. (EJ moved, MC seconded).

=== Visitor Presentations ===

Steve Kane - visitor to observe GIAC board. Has overall computer background. 
Interested in ways to reach out to community, particularly getting older people 
on computers.

=== Monthly Reports ===

Secretary (Mary Camp, Acting)
    * January 13, 2005 final meeting minutes approved unanimously (EJ moved, MC 
      seconded).
    * February 10, 2005 draft meeting minutes accepted. Email any changes.

Treasurer (Peggy Bates )
    * financial report   negative $221 for February.  Approximately negative 
      $330 year to date.
    * membership   46 dial-up accounts, 8 non-connection accounts. Lost 1 
      member. Total of 89 members.

Vice President's Report (Mary Camp)
    * plan to have a class on Firefox and Thunderbird in mid-April, as manual 
      not available till March 23.  
    * Discussed handling GIAC voice mail. If pickup message then put an email in 
      GIAC subdirectory

President's Report (none)

System Administrator's Report (Peggy Bates and Neil McLeod)
    * subscriber access to control panel (CP)   Neil started testing options to 
      decide which to offer. 
    * need to create a new all_principals address to reflect change in Board 
      members. Old one is ok to use.

Webmaster's Report (Neil McLeod)
    * Greenbelt News Review (GNR) network status   have Linksys wireless and DSL 
      now.
    * agreement in concept to access and review all photos submitted to GNR and 
      to contact about putting on Greenbelt gallery.
    * website format is 800x600 and to add Java script. 

Director's Report (Ed James)
    * New Deal Cafe WiFi is stable. 
    * Perl script   Neil setup CP. Neil and Ed need to schedule meeting to work 
      together on its use. 
    * will write up agenda for Thursday April 14th board meeting.

=== Old Business ===

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

=== New Business ===

    * discussion of February 10th meeting.
    * non-profit organization support discussion. Doug Love gave Ed folders. Ed 
      will be on legal committee. Neil will pick up folders from Ed. 
    * need to find new resident agent for GIAC to replace Doug Love.
    * Neil to try to get form from Bank of America for new signatures list.
    * discussed accelerated dial-up.
    * discussed Greenbelt.com domain hosting setup fee. Will not charge to non-
      profits.
    * Neil will prepare amendment to bylaws for annual meeting vote. Will change 
      number of members on a committee from three to one.
    * PB, EJ and NM will meet at Community Center to test GNR WiFi's signal 
      range and strength.
    * meeting March 19th, 1:00 pm, at the Greenbelt police station to design new 
      GIAC webpage layout.

=== Conclusion ===

Voice and Email Roster: Don't forget to check GIAC@greenbelt.com
    Mar 06 - Mar 12   Neil McLeod
    Mar 13 - Mar 19   Ed James 
    Mar 20 - Mar 26   Mary Camp
    Mar 27 - Apr 02   Ed James 
    Apr 03 - Apr 09   Neil McLeod
    Apr 10 - Apr 16   Ed James 
 
Next Meeting
    * 7:00 p.m. on Thursday April 14th 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.
    * Mary Camp   finish audit; make PDF files from membership forms; install 
      new video driver on laptop; find Norton Anti-virus 2003 bill for Peggy; 
      correct February minutes, write draft March minutes, send both to the 
      Board.
    * Ed James   schedule meeting with Neil to work on Perl program; compile 
      next Board meeting agenda. 
    * Neil McLeod   amend committee bylaw; continue work on GNR network; meet 
      with Ed.

The meeting adjourned at 9:45 pm (EJ moved, NM seconded).


Respectfully submitted,
Mary Camp
April 17, 2005

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