• Approximately 44 people.

BOARD NAMETAGS

• Jim Burke, care and feeding of name tags.
  • Do not run through washer or dryer,
  • Do not expose to heat or light like laying it on your car dashboard, This dulls the colors
  • Do not wipe badges with chemical abrasives,
  • Do not put badge in plastic pouch, this breaks down the coating
• Jim Burke, nametags were passed out. Stil have nametags for Glen Grimes, Stephanie Smith, and Suresh Shah

PROGRAMMING CONTEST

• Daniel Brookshier suggested the benefits of a programming contest sponsored by JavaMUG.
  • Recognition of people and employers.
  • Matter of a lot of categories
  • Issues, how to pick winners and cull nominess (i.e. notable projects)
  • Daniel will build a forum to discuss the programming contest using Java.net. Java.net is dog easy to use
  • Alex Ferrer, concerned that Java.net dilutes JavaMUG brand name

DISCUSSION FORMUS AND JAVAMUG

• Alex Ferrer, a JavaMUG forum is seriously lacking. Forums build community. Right now forums are the hottest topic in social relationships.
• Suresh Shah, suggested looking at InstallShield forums.
• Daniel Brookshier, for now use Java.Net then move to Collabnet.
• Jean Johnson, concerned about forum moderation and liablity regarding discussions.
• Daniel Brookshier, P2P forum goes to one or two guys to post.
• Jean Johnson, suggested a forum on monthly presentations.
• Daniel Brookshier will set up a forum using Java.Net.
• Daniel Brookshier, we need our own JavaMUG web site. Alex Ferrer agreed. We would have better more granualr control.
• ACTION Jim Burke, suggested we price Collabnet. Alex Ferrer said there are dozens out there and he will research and suggest a few.

AUDIT COMMITTEE REPORT (Special Committee)

• No report, audit is ongoing.

DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE REPORT

• Members: Barbara DeVries, Jim Burke, Jean Johnson.
• Parent committee of the Electronic Communications Committee
• No report

EDUCATION COMMITTEE REPORT

• Members: Glen Grimes (Chairperson), Jean Johnson, and Jim Burke
• Jean Johnson reporting
  • Survey for membership desires
  • Membership skill levels
  • Opportunities for certification packages
  • Two long term classes per year and one short class.
  • ACTION Jim Burke will contact Sun regarding architect qualifications
  • Cerfitied Education Units (CEUS) not good any more because they do not test if anything was learned.

ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE REPORT

• Members: Willis Griffin, Greg Helton, Raju Nallaparaju, and Randy Wiseman
• Electronic Communications is a sub-committee of the Development Committee
• Daniel Brookshier, Jobs listing, not all are java related jobs
• Alex Ferrer, looking for better quality content in list messages.
• Daniel Brookshier, suggested list moderation.
• ACTION Jean Johnson agreed to be a moderator.
• ACTION Jim Burke, convert bylaws to PDF and linearize that PDF for faster loading on slow connections. Will send to Daniel who will convert Word to PDF then Jim will linearize.

MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE REPORT

• Members: Jim Burke
• Jim Burke, discussed needs of web setup. Want it to look like a blog. Member editable area. Like a one page member blog.
• Daniel Brookshier, consider the Gutenberg Huck Finn project or Java
• Suresh Shah, his hockey web site was plagued with spam signups and sending spam notes to members.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE REPORT

• Members: Alex Ferrer and Erik Wieburst.
• Alex Ferrer reported, in the pipeline, changes possible
  • April, Dave Thomas, Pragmatic Mock Objects.
  • May, Mark Fleury, founder JBOSS with Gavin King, founder Hibernate (tenative)
  • June, James C. Owen, Rules
• Daniel Brookshier, backup presentations needed due to Murphys Law of Java.