Minutes of the Board of Directors for the USGenWeb Census Project

Meeting held January 6, 2003 via Internet using mIRC beginning at 9:26 PM EST
and ending at 10:19 EST.

Present:
    Wayne Duncan
    Sue Soden
    Ellen Horner
    April Phillips
    Connie Burkett
    Sandy Onbey

A quorum being set, the meeting was called to order by President Pro-tem Sandy
Onbey. While present for most of the meeting, Wayne Duncan declined the gavel
due to recurring power outages.

Officer, board, or standing committee reports: None at this time

Special orders addressed: None at this time

Minutes of the December, 2002 meeting as sent electronically have been received
by all present and there being no discussion or corrections are accepted as sent.

Old Business:

 USGENNET SERVER:
  Connie received a message from USGN stating that the server shipped from Reno,
  NV to Salt Lake City, UT and would go on a smaller truck to Idaho.
  A later message stated that the server would arrive "someday" rather than Tuesday
  as stated in the original message.

  With urging from Connie, Sandy was convinced not to express an opinion of Dell,
  Inc. on the Epinions website (a site that posts opinions of consumers on products
  and services.)

 USPTO:
  Wayne Duncan has developed a letter to be mailed to the USPTO to reactivate our
  application status. He will mail it out individually to all the Board members on
  January 7th as our server is down as well as our website.

  Wayne also stated that he received "official word" that they (USPTO) could not
  provide us with suggestions as to our next step. Sue will contact Fred to see
  if he has any advice to offer us. Wayne also stated that he felt that if they
  get a correspondence from us that it will reactivate our account. He is going
  to draft another letter to the address they sent him and mail it out tomorrow.

  We decided that we were not going to "give it up", but rather see this through
  to the end. It was also suggested that we alert the USPTO that we are contacting
  Geneweb as well regarding part of the hold-up on our application.

  It will be necessary to wait until our server is back in operation before we
  contact Geneweb, but that needs to be done as soon as possible after we are back
  online again.

New Business:

  April thought that Sue may have had some, but it was decided that we would wait
  until she was here or if it was something that needed attention before our next
  meeting, we could have a "called meeting."

  There being nothing further to discuss, the meeting was adjourned by President
  Pro-tem, Sandy Onbey at 10:19PM EST to reconvene on February 3, 2003 at 9:00 PM.

Items for next Board Meeting:

1. Has there been any response from USPTO yet?

2. Has a letter to Geneweb been drafted/sent yet?

3. Do we need to start setting up procedures, etc. for upcoming elections?