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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. It's on the table at the moment.

   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.

Possibly something in conjunction with the IEEE robot battle on

March 21 and 22.

   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.

   May Event: Robofest is now scheduled for May 22. The Arts Committee

has been talking with the organizers and wants to do something in

cooperation.

   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, Joe Zitt and

Rob Carroll, who videotaped the proceedings - Joe reports that the

video came out OK and the audio good. When edited into final form,

it will be well worth having; the panel made some good points, and

many intelligent questions came from the audience afterwards.

 

   SJ was interviewed (again) Feb. 3 on Emmanuel Goldstein's radio

show on WBAI in New York City (Pacifica).

 

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? SJ has logged in and

can report.

   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?

   Whose responsibility is it to work with our video volunteers 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?

   Change name?

 

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.)


(Hmm. I don't know why it double-spaced. Might have to do with my new
terminal program. This was the second try; it did it both times; I
hope you can live with it. Will try to debug later.)