Minutes of the Board of Directors for the USGenWeb Census Project
Meeting held 01 February 2001 via Internet using mIRC
beginning at 20:37 EST and ending at 22:10 EST

Present:
    Wayne Duncan, President
    Ron Eason, Vice-President
    Ellen Horner, Membership Secretary
    Connie Burkett
    Jeri Shangle
    April Phillips, Special Guest

A quorum being present the meeting was called to order by Ron Eason.

Minutes from the Board Meetings of January 25, 2001 were approved as
written, with no corrections or additions.

There were no officer, board or standing committee reports.

There were no special orders addressed.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS:

    Wayne reported that Jim Powell had responded to Wayne's email that his
    project is still Looking for a server to upload the images to and has
    agreed, in principle, to allow us to link to them. Ron Eason wanted to
    know how much space Jim needed, and Wayne indicated that Jim did not
    mention this.

    Wayne also reported that the PR position job description is "in the
    rough" with Wayne's wife, Kathy, working on it with help from Wayne.

    Wayne reported on the MIRC logging problem/question of "what is being
    logged". It appears that if you have automatic logging specified as
    "BOTH", it creates separate log files for the little chats inside the
    channel.

    Connie reported that the FTP problem has not occurred since the ratio
    was raised, so if we get more concurrent researchers in the FTP area,
    we will be revisited by this problem again. If anyone notices the
    problem again, we are to let Connie know so she can contact Jim. Connie
    will also ask Jim what the cost will be for USGenNet to up their
    license agreement so the setting can be more than 50 concurrent users.

    Ron reported that he heard back from Phil Beshear regarding CART. Phil
    stated he won't be doing anything more to CART until he is assured he
    has 100% control of CART. Since the Archives wouldn't remove the CART
    pages when asked, he won't update anything else right now.

NEW BUSINESS:

    April, Proofreader Coordinator, opened discussion on whether email
    addresses should be on the proofreader pages or if we should use a
    generic email. After much discussion it was decided to try a separate,
    closed list (yahoo group list) for the proofreaders. This idea will be
    brought up at Monday night's SC meeting to seek their input/approval.
    Ron will establish the list and April will moderate it during beta
    testing.

    Wayne brought up the topic of the new volunteer for the Montana SC
    position, Kathie Brune, mentioning that this person looks very
    promising with HTML knowledge and a very solid background in genealogy.

Next board meeting is Thursday, February 8, 20:00 EST.

The meeting was adjourned at 20:37 EST.