Minutes of the Board of Directors for the USGenWeb Census Project Meeting held 5 August 2002 via Internet using mIRC beginning at 9:20 PM EDT and ending at (Time) EDT. Present: Wayne Duncan Sue Soden Ellen Horner April Phillips Connie Burkett Linda Talbott Sandy Onbey A quorum being set, Wayne Duncan called the meeting to order. Officer, board, or standing committee reports: None Special orders addressed: None Minutes of the August 5, 2002 meeting as sent electronically have been received by all present and there being no discussion or corrections are accepted as sent. Old Business: USPTO Connie commented that their web site at http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=78047841 Is now showing "correspondence received" with the date of 7-15-2002. Wayne mentioned that he had tried calling the lead attorney, but she was unavailable... Wayne also mentioned going to the USPTO office on his next three day and that he would also check with Ron to see if he had heard anything from the USPTO. VIRUSES Several of the State Coordinators have been getting virus-infected e-mail from the webmaster’s e-mail address and some have received spam advertising as well. Be very careful in opening mail. Our e-mail addresses on our web pages are undoubtedly the reason for this. USGENWEB ELECTIONS It was noted that most of us had received run-off election ballots for the current USGENWEB elections. Only those not being a SC or having been an SC for a year did not receive a ballot for the run-off. It was also noted that this was the first year in a long time that any of the members of our project have been allowed to vote and that we felt it was at least a step in the right direction. New Business: Just before the meeting started, Sue Soden announced that she was going to be a guest speaker at the IAGenWeb meeting on August 6, 2002. Congratulations and support was sent her way from all of us. Wayne Duncan had to leave early and therefore passed the gavel to Ellen Horner, who adjourned the meeting at 10:06 PM EST to reconvene on 2 September 2, 2002 at 9:00 PM Items for next Board Meeting: