From: sjackson@tic.com (Steve Jackson)
Subject: Preliminary agenda for October meeting
Originator: riddle@aahsa.tic.com
X-Submissions: eff-austin@tic.com
Organization: none
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 03:54:35 GMT


PRELIMINARY AGENDA FOR AUSTIN EFF DIRECTORS' MEETING - Oct. 13, 1992
     To be held at 6:30pm at the business office of Steve Jackson Games.
 
CLOSED SESSION, to last about an hour
        Elect new officers?
        Fill vacant positions on Board
        Advisory Board
 
OPEN SESSION, to start about 7:30
 
CALL ROLL
APPROVE MINUTES
 
OFFICERS' REPORTS
   PRESIDENT - Any word from Matt Lawrence?
   VP -
   SECRETARY - 
   TREASURER - Do we have a Texas CPA? Bank account? Money?
 
CHARTER, BYLAWS, INCORPORATION
    Have we issued a press release about our incorporation?
 
CYBERTEX
   Still dormant?
 
COMMITTEE AND OTHER REPORTS
    BBS Committee: Dave Smith, Donna McLaughlin, Loyd Blankenship. (Earl
Cooley is interested.)
    Network Committee: JSQ, Smoot, who else?)
    Newsletter Commmittee: Dave Smith. An issue is out . . .
    Police Liaison Committee - Bruce Sterling, Dick Anderson,
Smoot Carl-Mitchell.
 
        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:
    October meeting: Bruce Sterling will speak on "The Hacker
Crackdown." Organizer: Susan Cisco. This was originally set for
November but moved for logistical reasons, to 7:30 pm, Thursday,
October 29. It will be at the Al Kiva Room of the UT Education Building.
We can buy books from Bantam and resell them to support EFF-Austin, and
Bruce will sign all copies sold; Ed and Dave will deal with this, and
SJ will loan his company's card imprinter. There will be buffet
refreshments which will not come out of the EFF-Austin budget. There
will be no charge to attend.
        November Cyberdawg: Tracy LaQuey Parker will sign copies of her
new book. Willard Uncapher has volunteered to organize this. No
site or date yet; Europa Books has been suggested.
        December Cyberdawg: schedule around holidays . . .
    January: Ed Cavazos - panel on sysop issues.
 
COMMUNICATION
   Newsgroup: Up and running, with Prentiss Riddle as moderator!!
   Lots more Infodisks have been sold. How many?
   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
   Jon Lebkowsky's 9-27 Cyberarts meeting filled the house at High Time.
   We had between 40 and 50 attendees at the 9-28 panel on networking.
 
WILL BE HISTORY BY THE MEETING
        Armadillocon is October 10-11. We have a table. Donna is organizing
volunteers. Paco is looking around for a good front-end display
system - sj can bring a MS-dos machine and monitor, probably color.
 
NEW BUSINESS . . . FOR SURE THIS TIME
   George Wenzel's FreeNet project.
   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.
   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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