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AGENDA FOR EFF-AUSTIN DIRECTORS' MEETING - Feb. 9, 1993
   To be held at 6:30pm at the business office of Steve Jackson Games
 
CLOSED SESSION, to last about a half-hour
   Discuss vacant positions on Board - two left.
   Discuss Advisory Board. Acceptances? New nominees? We have one...
 
OPEN SESSION, to start about 7:00.
   APPROVE MINUTES OF LAST MEETING
   REPORT ON EXECUTIVE SESSION
 
OFFICERS' REPORTS
   PRESIDENT - 
   VP - 
   SECRETARY - In the foreseeable future I may have a life again.
We need stationary. We need to publicize our VMB number.
   TREASURER - How much money do we have? Do we have a Texas CPA?
 
CYBERTEX
   Still dormant, pending proposals from interested parties, but Jon
and the Arts Committee are working toward it. His current report is
"Wait and see how the sysop panel and the other presentations go."
 
COMMITTEE AND OTHER REPORTS
   Arts Committee: Jon Lebkowsky, (chair), Willard Uncaphur, Bob Anderson,
 Sandy Stone, Marcos Novak, Vernon Reed, Dave Demaris, Paco Nathan.
What's new? March 1 event ideas?
    BBS Committee: Dave Smith, Donna McLaughlin, Loyd Blankenship. (Earl
Cooley is interested.) Do we have an agreement document for InfoSite
BBSs? Did anybody ever talk to Earl about what he could do?
   Chapter Conference Liaison Committee - JonL, Ed, Dave (chair), jsq.
Deal with this under Communications with Cambridge, below. Has this
committee now finished its work?
   Education Committee: Dick Anderson (chair), Smoot. ACC meeting?
   Fund-Raising Committee: Does not yet exist. There have been repeated
suggestions that one is needed. Should we discuss it?
   Infodisk Committee: Dave Smith (chair), Ed Cavazos. Second edition?
This!Group CD-ROM contact proceeding?
   Membership Commitee: Ed Cavazos (chair). Membership procedures - 
approve final version? We need a new membership form.
    Network Committee: Smoot (chair), jsq.
    Newsletter Committee: Dave Smith. Status of WORD 4?
    Police Liaison Committee - Dick Anderson (chair), Smoot, Bruce
Sterling. Any new visits made? Law enforcement event proposal?
   Publicity Committee: Paco Nathan (chair), jonl, SJ, Monica Stephens.
Paco reports: If you have something to publicize, send it to me clearly
marked PUB: <whatever> in the subject.  You're better off sending to me
at pacoid@wixer.cactus.org. Phone tree?
   Liaison to Computers And The Law Committee of the Travis County
Bar Association: Ed Cavazos; Jim Robinson is now helping him.
   Volunteer Coordinator: Donna McLaughlin. We need a job description
for the Vol Coordinator. We need lots of job descriptions. We need to
encourage people to contact VC, ESPECIALLY if they can do any of the
following things:
   Drive a regular route to drop EFF material off at computer stores.
   Help post information on boards for BBS Comm!  What else?
   
PROGRAM PLANNING
   Ad-hoc committees for each upcoming meeting:
   February GTC meeting: February 11, 1:30 until 3pm. We have not
yet settled on a program. Jon Lebkowsky is our liaison with GTC.
We will have a table there, as well. See note from him at the 
end of this agenda.
   February Cyberdawg: Dave Smith will organize this - if possible,
in conjunction with the GTC - say, at High Time, from 5 until 8.
   March Event: Something on March 1; the Arts Committee will commit it.
   April Cyberdawg: Possibly a rave, maybe at SJ Games. Arts Committee.
   April Event: CopCon program, with all local law enforcement invited
and a well-known guest, run by the Police Liaison Committee. Bruce will
develop a proposal before next meeting.
   September 22: The EFF Board will meet in Austin and would like to
schedule something with local activists for the evening of the 22nd
or sometime on Thursday the 23rd.
 
   Dave Smith has started a "cookbook" for EFF-Austin meeting planners,
and will distribute it to the mailing list for comment. He's still
working on it, but it's at the bottom of his list.
 
LOCAL ACTIVITY SINCE LAST MEETING
   Jon Lebkowsky organized a reception Jan. 17, at Europa Books, for
Emmanuel Goldstein. It went well; we seemed to have 30 or 40 people,
at least, going through.
   Ed Cavazos was organizer for the Sysop Liability Workshop held at
the Marriott on Jan. 31. It also went well. Our house-counter reported
 that we had 65 people, though that included the 6 on the panel. There
was sentiment for making this an annual event.
   Kudos to organizer Ed Cavazos (who, when he started to set this up,
never thought that he'd be a key member of the litigation team for
SJ Games vs. Secret Service the week before the event); to the law
firm of George, Donaldson & Ford, for sponsoring the panel; and to
the blue-ribbon panelists: Steve Ryan, Mikki Barry, Mike Godwin,
Pete Kennedy and Lance Rose. Thanks also to Bob Izenberg, who
videotaped the proceedings.  With luck we'll be able to announce the
availability of a video. If it comes out all right, it will be well worth
having; the panel made some good points, and many intelligent questions
came from the audience afterwards.
 
   SJ will be interviewed (again) Feb. 3 on Emmanuel Goldstein's radio
show on WBAI in New York City (Pacifica). By meeting time, this will
be history.
 
OTHER OLD BUSINESS
   Do we want to get involved in the Internet connection to Congress?
Dick Anderson was delegated to check with Pickle's office and report.
   Do we want to do anything with FedWorld BBS?
   Multi-User Dungeon as method of interaction? SJ has looked into
it a bit and can present an informal report. Jon Boede is local expert.
 
NEW BUSINESS
   Fund-raising committee: warning stickers
   Project: e-mail letters to TX Congress. Problem: overload?
   FedWorld BBS
   Whose responsibility is it to work with Bob Izenberg on the
sysop panel video? Should we advertise it in BOARDWATCH? Where else?
   Should we be working for a review of the antiquated Texas
wiretap law?
   Who is the SW Bell contact person for BBS rate questions?
 
COMMUNICATION W/CAMBRIDGE
   Outcome of Confederation Meeting? (Plan on this taking a while.)
   Should this general subject remain on the agenda?
 
ON THE TABLE
   Institutional memberships.
   Fund-raising. (Dave wants to discuss this.)
   Talks with DIR - tabled until the GTC meeting.
   John Henry Faulk Conference - tabled until May, for September meeting.
   Elect officers - tabled till April for an installation in May.
 
CHARTER, BYLAWS, INCORPORATION
   Revise bylaws to remove reference to EFF-National?
 
CALL ROLL, SET NEXT MEETING DATE AND TIME
ADJOURN about 10 pm, we hope. (Secretary editorializes: Hah! Not if
we get anything like a report on the Atlanta meeting.)