Time and Location

• 9:00 PM approx, to 10:29 PM
• J. C. Penney Meeting room

Attendance

• President: Dan Kern-Ekins
• Vice-President: Bob Byron
• Education: Jim Burke
• Webmaster: Pete Carapetyan
• Secretary: Irina Marchenko
• Promotions: Barbara DeVries
• Treasurer: Stuart Yarus
• Programs: Billy Barron

General Business:

• Attendance:
• Attendance at the general meeting was agreed to be approximately 81 for the evening.
• Treasurer:
• List statistics as of 10/09/02: javamug - 545, javamug-jobs - 512, javamug-cert - 150.
• Balance $7,782.77 (October 31, 2002) - income: $500; expense: $900 (speaker placques), $300 (July meeting expenses), $336 (misc.); net ytd (1,036.00).
• VP:
• The audit report will be available at the December meeting.
• Promotions:
• Barbara has the December sponsor slot filled. A volunteer to do fundraising, if necessary, is available.
• Programs:
• Feedback on presentation turned into a brief polemic on advantages and disadvantages of having polished speakers (published authors) vs. technical presenters (peers).
• A different topic for December is to be decided due to the cancellation by the previously scheduled speaker because the JavaFaces JSR is not finished.
• Programs director approached the Board with request for funds including an annual budget with a per meeting cap earmarked for presentation expenses. Several motions were made and withdrawn. Barbara's motion

  "that Program Director be authorized to expend up to $500 in speaker expenses including travel and lodging per meeting to be contingent on approval by President or VP, to be requested by e-mail announcement to the entire Board for comments, and not to exceed $1,500 per annum"

  was tabled.

Old Business:

• Barbara moved "that JavaMUG provide a resume posting list moderated by a Board appointed volunteer with policies set by the Board. The list will be announced to the JavaMUG list with an e-mail approved by the Board. The list will be referenced on the JavaMUG Web site." The Board unanimously voted against it.

New Business:

• Last month minutes:
• The Board approved the October minutes.
• Elections:
• The Board agreed that elections 2002 had been the best organized in the history of JavaMUG.
• Irina emphasized the positive effect of Jim's idea to print a flier with candidates' bio.
• The Board supported Barbara's motion to request that Secretary write the election procedure to be included in the JavaMUG operations standards in future.
• Barbara recommended to devote more time for (i) speeches about candidates and (ii) messages about career enhancement through service as a Board member.
• Pete introduced Erik Weibust as a candidate for the Webmaster position.
• Discussion of candidates regarding appointments was moved to the e-mail forum. The appointment of the new officers should be done by December 2002.
• Transition to the new Board:
• To ensure a smooth transition the Board electronic forum will include both old and new members through the transition period.
• Bob Byron reviewed VP responsibilities.
• Preliminary discussion on Constitution review took place.
• David Dietz asked each member of the Board to provide a description of duties.
• Barbara brought up writing an Operations Manual Roles & Responsibilities Manual and that the new Board should address doing them.
• As part of the transition, Dan will get David the mail box key, make sure David has check signature authority, get new name tags and business cards.
• Miscellaneous:
• Dan made everyone aware that JavaMUG gets a credit if members order from Amazon using the link on the Book Review webpage.