The meeting was called to order at 7:13pm by the DACS President, Dave Green.
In attendance were board members Richard Corzo, Bert Goff (Secretary & Treasurer), and Dave Green (President). Dick Gingras, Jim Scheef, and Andy Woodruff were not present. The minutes were taken by Richard Teasdale.
(Names in italics denote responsibilities for actions.)
- The Minutes of the 11/2/2016 Board Meeting were accepted.
Reports
- The Treasurer’s report for November was discussed. Bert reported that dues receipts have rebounded sharply from October’s number, and that several payments for December have already come in. Expenses continue to be less than last year.
- Membership committee: Jim sent a report showing 85 paid-up members (including 1 new), and 14 in-grace, for a total of 99.
- Press Coverage:
- Dave reported that press releases for the December general meeting were sent out and that press releases for the January meeting will be sent on or about December 22.
- Website:
- Richard reported that an unused plug-in was reported as being compromised and was uninstalled. Also, the DACS website is being blocked by WCSU’s campus network.
Old Business
- Programs:
- Jay Ferron will speak at the January general meeting about Hololens. Jim will write the Preview, and Angel Cortez will write the Review.
- It was agreed that Wearable Devices would be a good topic for a general meeting, if a speaker can be found. Dave will speak to the manager of Best Buy about this.
- Renovation of the Resource Center (RC): deferred.
- Slack: Richard summarized experience to-date with Slack, and possibilities for further rollout were discussed. Richard agreed to contact Dave Mawdesley to discuss extending Slack to the Linux workshop’s members.
- Richard Teasdale will in January continue Jim’s work on a survey of the membership to determine the level of interest in a NAS workshop, using the SurveyMonkey account created by Jim.
- Bucky Milam plaque: Allan Ostergren will publish a photo of the plaque in the January newsletter.
New Business
- Snacks for general meetings:
- Dave (drinks) and Bert (snacks) will make the arrangements in January.
- Printing of January newsletter: The board decided that since the printer will be closed during the week between Christmas and New Year’s, the best course of action will be to delay publication of the newsletter. Bert will ask Jim to notify the DACS membership of the delay, near the end of the month. Richard Teasdale will coordinate with Allan Ostergren.
- Bert will clarify with Jim his continued membership on the board of directors.
- Since membership of the board is now an even number (6), possible additions to the board were discussed.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:13pm.