Board of Directors Meeting Session Start: Mon Dec 01 2003 Present: Sue Soden April Phillips Ellen Horner Sandy Onbey Connie Burkett Veda Mendoza Myra Chambers Ron Eason The minutes For the October and November meetings were approved as sent. Old Business: Disclaimer: The disclaimer was briefly discussed. Sue Soden provided a url address as a possible starting place to begin writing a disclaimer for The USGenWeb Census Project. Myra Chambers will use this as a starting guideline and do a rewrite. Veda Mendoza volunteered to assist Myra. The rewritten disclaimer will be sent to the CP Board mail list when ready. Potential sponsor: Sue Soden will continue to contact financial institutions and/or individuals to explore the possibility of sponsorship. Veda Mendoza agreed to contact a grants writer to see if there are possible grants available for a project such as ours. NARA and genealogy societies were noted as possible contacts. Ron reported that there had been some activity on the Board-L list regarding our service mark application. Due to some of the comments made, the board agreed for Ron Eason to directly contact the Board-L with a response. Based on Ron Eason’s and Sue Soden’s prior knowledge of the history of the service mark, there was a concensus between board members for them to continue to make contacts. Ron Eason stated that he would provide a draft of his response before sending the response to Board-L New Business There was no new business. Sue Soden adjorned the meeting. The next meeting will be January 5, 2004