The meeting was called to order at 7:15 pm by the DACS President, Dave Green.
In attendance were board members Richard Corzo, Bert Goff (Secretary & Treasurer), Dave Green (President), Dick Gingras, Jim Scheef (via phone), and Andy Woodruff. Cathy Quaranta, and Tom Zarecki were not present. The minutes were taken by Richard Corzo (notes) and Bert Goff (formatting and some updates).
(Names in bold italics denote responsibilities for actions.)
The Minutes of the 10/5/2016 Board Meeting were accepted.
Reports
- Treasurer’s Report for October was presented. Bert reported that dues continue to lag and are now $725. behind last year’s rate. No problem on the expense side.
- Membership Committee Report (Jim) – will be distributed 11/3. Cathy, via e-mail, reported 28 in attendance at the Nov 1st General meeting.
- Marketing Committee remain unstaffed and inactive.
- Press Coverage Report (Dave) – Dave and Richard Teasdale sent out press releases for November General Meeting.
- Webmaster’s Report (Richard Corzo) – Our site was hacked and we restored from our backups. SiteLock notified us that our site was hacked as well as our Wordfence WordPress plug-in. We would need to pay SiteLock (initial quote is $7.50/month) if we want more than notification, such as more details.
Old Business
- Programs: December 6th: Bill Saturno — Cable TV Cord Cutting
- Preview: Richard Corzo
- Review: Jim spoke to Dave Mawdsley or Jim Ritterbusch but neither has yet committed. He will follow up.
January 3rd: Jay Ferron — Microsoft HoloLens
- Preview: Jim Scheef
- Review: Richard will try finding a student, but there is no guarantee of success
February 7th: Jim agreed to follow up with Allan about the observatory
- Preview:
- Review:
- Renovation of Resource Center
- Andy has been in contact with a retirement center that frequently replaces carpets. Feedback from them for enough lightly used carpeting is encouraging.
- Other Old Business
- Slack – We added Annette and a #webmasters channel. We’ll look for other board members to join. Both Dave and Dick indicated they will be joining soon.
- Jim sent some board members the Survey Monkey credentials, so that a membership survey can be sent out about NAS and other subjects.
- Richard will follow up with Allan about honoring Bucky Milam.
New Business
- Snacks for December Meeting – Richard will bring beverages. Bert will ask Lisa if she will bring snacks. [Note: Lisa has confirmed that she will do it.]
- Board member elections – Dick, Richard C. and Andy have agreed to run for reelection. Dave will contact Cathy.
- The board voted to remove Tom Zarecki as a board member. He is no longer active as a board member and has not renewed as a DACS member.
- There was a motion to reduce the board membership to 7. The motion failed so we can try recruiting some more members prior to the December general meeting.
- We discussed whether it might be possible to offer co-working space at cheaper rate than the Hackerspace.
- There was discussion about improving general awareness of DACS and all that we offer. Social Media was talked about and, in particular, how we could better leverage our Meetup group (currently has over 170 followers).
Meeting adjourned at 9:15 p.m.