Minutes of the Board of Directors for the USGenWeb Census Project 

Meeting held 2 August 2004 via Internet using mIRC beginning at 9:21 PM EST  
and ending at 10:49 EST. 

Present:
Connie Burkett
Ron Eason
Ellen Horner
Sandy Onbey
April Phillips
Linda Talbott
Veda Mendoza...Absent

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

Officer, board, or standing committee reports:  

Sandy Onbey reported that the Committee on the Disclaimer Revision had 
completed their work. 

Special orders addressed: None at this time.

Minutes of the 12 July 2004 meeting as sent electronically have been received 
by all present and there being no discussion or corrections are accepted as 
sent.

A motion was made by Linda Talbott and seconded by Sandy Onbey to set aside 
Robert's Rules of Order.  The motion was voted on and passed.

Old Business:

DISCLAIMER:  
After some discussion and slight revision Motion 2005-1 to approve the 
Disclaimer as revised was made by April Phillips and seconded by Sandy Onbey.  
The vote was unanimous and the motion passed and therefore approved for usage 
as amended.

USGenWeb Census Project® Disclaimer

We, The USGenWeb Census Project®, assume no responsibility for the use of or 
the ensuing repercussion from the use of any information posted on our 
Website, www.us-census.org. This includes, but is not limited to errors, 
omissions, assumptions or conclusions. In no event will the USGenWeb Census 
Project® be held responsible, and explicitly disclaims any liability for 
damages of any kind arising from the use, or misuse, inability to use, 
reference to, or reliance on the information posted on this website, even if 
The USGenWeb Census Project® has been advised of errors, and/or omissions. 
Use of said website, services and software is strictly voluntary and may only 
be used for lawful purposes. There are no warranties, written or implied.

We, The USGenWeb Census Project®, neither endorse nor approve of any product, 
service or opinion contained in any website that has a link from our website; 
nor any reference to any service, process or product available commercially 
by trade name, trademark, service mark, or manufacturer constitute or suggest 
an endorsement by us, nor do we make any warranties, whether written or 
implied relating to such services, processes or commercial products.
Pop-up/advertising is usually produced by other websites that may have been 
visited, or possibly by third party software installed on the computer in 
use. We do not use or endorse any pop-ups on any websites.

NEW SERVER:

By the time our meeting came about a notice had been sent by Ginger Cisewski, 
President of USGenNet.Org, telling us that the usgennet.org domain is now up 
and running on the new server! Folks with accounts on that domain can now 
upload again, but be sure your FTP address goes to ftp.usgennet.org  

The search engines are not working right now, but Jim is re-indexing the 
domain and they should be back up and running as soon as that's completed.

FTP has also been turned back on for the domains still located on the old 
server, which includes TNGenWeb and The USGenWeb Census Project, as well as a 
host of other, smaller domains. 

Those of you on the USGenNet domain will notice that all our pages now load 
in the blink of an eye. And those of you still located on the old server 
should notice that your pages also load faster, now that they have more 
bandwidth to work with. 

We'll continue to move off the old server, one domain at a time, but I'm sure 
our SysAdmin will want to get caught up on his sleep first, since he hasn't 
had much of that in quite a few days. 

LINKS:

A refresher on the SCs completing the checking of links on their web pages 
and sending a list in to Ron and April to verify and then update or delete as 
needed.  Connie said that she thought most of the states were "up-to-snuff." 

A discussion was held about getting a program similar to the one that Jeri 
Shangle had used.  One that would periodically check these links and let us 
know when any of them had gone bad.  April found a few online with a price 
range of $19 to $40 that might be suitable.  We will investigate these and 
make a decision.

New Business:

WAYNE DUNCAN:

Connie said that Wayne Duncan had contacted us and wanted to become involved 
with the daily operations of the Census Project again.  He felt that he was 
well enough in his recovery to take on more work.  After some discussion it 
was agreed to give NC to Wayne, as that was one he had worked with in the 
past and was familiar with it.  Final approval is pending on response from 
Wayne as the Board approved his re-joining us.

MASS WEB-PAGE CHANGES:

Connie stated that we are adding a link to our Search web page at the bottom 
and that she and Marsha would be doing all of them.  They will be contacting 
each CP-SC who does their own web pages to make arrangements for a time so 
they can download, change, and upload.  Then the CP-SC can download the 
changed pages.  They will also be using "server-side-includes" at Sue's 
suggestion so that the next time we need to update we will only need to 
change one or two files.

Ron Eason adjourned the meeting at 10:49 PM EST to reconvene on 7 September 
2004 at 9:00 PM EST on mIRC.

Items for next Board Meeting: 

1.  Response status from Wayne Duncan
2.  Changing FTP to HTTP
3.  Server updates
4.  Status of mass updates