From: sjackson@tic.com (Steve Jackson)
Subject: Agenda for September Directors' meeting
Originator: riddle@aahsa.tic.com
X-Submissions: eff-austin@tic.com
Organization: none
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 20:53:00 GMT

[Note from the moderator: This is late because of an error on my
part.  Sorry about that. -- Prentiss riddle riddle@tic.com]


AGENDA FOR AUSTIN EFF DIRECTORS' MEETING - Sept. 8, 1992
     To be held at 7:30pm at Martin Bros. Cafe on Guadalupe.
 
CALL ROLL
APPROVE MINUTES - there are objections to the last posted version.
 
OFFICERS' REPORTS
   PRESIDENT - What happened to Matt Lawrence? Did he check out
before leaving town?
   VP - We're incorporated, this time for sure, Rocky! Do we have
our sales tax permit yet?
   SECRETARY  - I'm back. I have given all the promo materials I
had, and copies of all membership forms, to Ed to give to Donna.
   TREASURER - Do we have a Texas CPA? Bank account? Money?
(Dave and Ed made money for us with the disk . . . :-)    ) Joan
Giglione mentioned to SJ that she'd never been called about CPA work.
 
CHARTER, BYLAWS, INCORPORATION
    We need an "official" digital version of our corporate charter.
    Can we now issue a press release about our incorporation?
Who should do it, Bruce?   :-)
    We can now discuss appointment of the initial Advisory Board.
        We need to discuss another round of by-law changes, and perhaps
we can pass them.
        Our By-law II.A.5 requires us to define a Constructive Notice
procedure. Shall we do this?
    Our By-law II.A.9 requires us to accept telephonic presence at
a meeting. It seems incumbent on us, therefore, to acquire a speaker-
phone, and never to hold a meeting at a site where we cannot use it.
SJ will volunteer his office, which has phones, modems and a copier,
until we can come up with a better site.
 
CYBERTEX
   Still dormant?
 
COMMITTEE AND OTHER REPORTS
    BBS Activity Committee: Dave Smith, Donna McLaughlin. New
committee, seeking to interface with local sysops. Do we have any sort
of formal "net" with the local BBSs, other than of course SMOF?
    BBS Study Committee: Dave Smith, Matt Lawrence, Loyd Blankenship.
Robot Group would like to donate a Unix box to Austin EFF. Let's
do something about this offer.
    Incorporation Committee - Steve Jackson, Ed Cavazos, Steve Ryan.
Report: It's done! Can this committee now be dissolved?
    Network Committee - (Did we ever make this an official committee?
What's its name? JSQ, Smoot, who else?)
    Newsletter Commmittee: OK, we haven't made this a committee, but
we probably should, unless we're not going to let Dave ask anybody
for help :-) - and SJ wishes to raise a question about the newsletter
distribution date. "First Monday after the meeting" often means that
the newsletter will be just before the directors' minutes appear.
Was this the intent? (SJ and Dave have discussed this; do the directors
want to discuss it?)
    Police Liaison Committee - Bruce Sterling, Dick Anderson,
Smoot Carl-Mitchell.
    SPA Committee - Dave Smith, Bruce Sterling. Anything further to do
here and now? Should we dissolve this committee with thanks?
 
        Volunteer Coordinator: Donna McLaughlin.
 
        Do Dave and Ed constitute a "committee" for their Infodisk
work, or do we just say "Yo, Dave and Ed, what's with the Infodisk"?
 
PROGRAM PLANNING
    Ad-hoc committees for each upcoming meeting:
    August Cyberdawg: Organizer: David Smith. 6-9pm August 22 at
Europa Books. 2300 block of Guadalupe, next to Tower Records on the Drag.
    September meeting: JSQ - program on networks. September 29???? Place????
    October Cyberdawg: Volunteers still needed to run it. Date?????
It's been suggested that we combine this with a book signing for
Tracy LaQuey Parker's new book.
    November meeting: Bruce Sterling will speak on
"The Hacker Crackdown." Organizer: Susan Cisco. Date??????
This one needs BIG publicity to start SOON. REAL SOON, folks!!!
        December Cyberdawg: schedule around holidays . . .
    January: Ed Cavazos - panel on sysop issues.
 
COMMUNICATION
   Newsgroup: Up and running, with Prentiss Riddle as moderator!!
   David Smith and Ed Cavazos have completed version 1.0 of their
EFF-Austin Infodisk and sold a number of copies, for $2 each, at 
the August Cyberdawg.
   Information packet for members. What's happening? What is currently in
the "Introduction to EFF" packet? What do we need to add?
   Mailing list: Donna's on, Matt's off. Progress?
   Schedule Board training for electronic mail, etc.?
   Files on tic.com file server. How to access these... FAQ file?
 
LOCAL ACTIVITY SINCE LAST MEETING
   David Smith organized a Cyberdawg August 22 at Europa Books. It went
extremely well - there was lots of favorable e-comment about it.
        Sept. 3 screening of SNEAKERS will be history by the time of the
meeting. We should write a letter of thanks to Universal.
 
NEW BUSINESS . . . FOR SURE THIS TIME
        Armadillocon?
   It's been suggested that we take the Cyberdawgs on the road
and sponsor events in, to start with, Houston.
   Dick Anderson's proposal on school mentoring program.
   Max Cray's suggestion that EFF-Austin adopt as a goal "to see
that (a commercial Internet service) is established locally." Or is
this already a near-term business goal of TIC?
   DIR - state agency interested in EFF input. Jon L. was working
with Lorraine Stryjak, a DIR staffer. Have we delegated anyone to follow
this up? A phone number for Judi Bailey at DIR is 512-475-4753.
    We've been sent an "Interactive University" proposal from Dick Cutler
at UT. Is this something we are able and willing to support in any way?
   Should we see if the next John Henry Faulk Conference on the
First Amendment would like us to make a presentation? It's sponsored
by the Center for American History. Allen Graham is getting some
further information for us.
   Regular ACTV show? Susan Cisco recommends we talk to
Alston Boyd @ Communication Cowboy, 472-2869 - he is interested.
   Someone interesting to contact: Association for Electronic
Communication, 501c3 - also do LANs - Bruce Heck, 4843 Roe Lane, Shawnee
Mission, KS 66205. 913-236-5199 bus/fax - Kevin Johnson, sysop. SJ met
these folks at FidoCon last year. They're interested in the EFF.
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