Smaller Is Better The News Bulletin Of CCP/M September 28, 1990 Regular Meeting, September 11, 1990 Reno called before the meeting and asked me (Lee Bradley is writing this) to write up these notes. He also took the time to vote in absentia as permitted by the Bylaws. Outgoing President Gabor Szikla opened this annual business meeting. After a brief but mildly heated discussion we voted in the new slate. Jim Taylor is the new President, Tom Veile beat out the competition (Lee Bradley and Gary Stagliano) for Treasurer and Al Hathway, newly returned from his transcontinental bike trip, was reelected as Program Coordinator. He has already suggested the topic for the October meeting - ZDB, Joe Mortensen's great Z-Database, which uses the new TCAP character graphics and datestamping if you have the new ZS/ZDDOS. Reno Franconi was reelected Group Secretary. Congratulations, all! Diane Thome will be our new n/l editor. She plans a monthly SIB with the help of Reno, Lee and the Z-Node. I offered to handle the mailing. She will be looking for and contributing articles for SIB. New member Gwen Robinson introduced herself and told us about how she runs a small Day Care center (The Little Flock) in New Haven, makes T-Shirts and does various business projects on her Royal. She was looking for a program which will print sideways on her printer and for banner and clip art programs. I grabbed SIDEWAYS.LBR from a RAS and will be giving her a quote on a CP/M version of PrintMaster (similar to Print Shop.) Jim Taylor has put together and sent her a floppy with Bradford (the letter quality program for dot matrix printers.) [Note: This issue of SIB was prepared with Bradford. End of Note.] Z Festival '90 is nearing. We need name tags, a registration table etc. Complimentary issue of EB&C is ready for mailing and contains Z Festival '90 flier etc. Z Node contact continues. User Group, media and library mailings in coming weeks. Directions being prepared for speaker Ian Cottrell and others. Visit to Hartford Graduate Center (RPI) (Z Festival '90 site) some time next week. Phone calls to as many people as I can think of in coming weeks. Please talk it up, everybody! The Group decided there was a need for an Executive Board meeting to plan CCP/M's 1990-91 direction. Lee Bradley and Gary Stagliano volunteered to join Treasurer Tom Veile and President Jim Taylor at this meeting. Tom later made the idea a reality by calling Jim and suggesting a date/place. The date/place finally settled down to be Monday September 17th at Lee and Linda's. --<8>-- A Message from Jim Taylor, President, CCP/M Executive Board Meeting, September 17, 1990 Members Present: James F. Taylor - President, CCP/M, Thomas S. Veile - Treasurer, CCP/M, Lee R. Bradley - Former Newsletter Editor, Member, Gary Stagliano - Member The following was discussed. It will be voted on at the next regular meeting. 1. Membership Dues Policy Changes It has been proposed that the membership year should be changed from the current September to September calendar year to a 12 month rotating basis beginning and ending during the month first joined. Therefore, dues will be the same no matter when you join and will expire one year from the date the member joins. It has been proposed that two separate ratings instead of our current singular rating of membership be established at different prices to reflect changes in our group structure: Membership dues will be assessed as per the following schedule. Regular Membership --------- $10.00 Includes membership in CCP/M, full voting privileges (either in person at the meetings or by written proxy) and a subscription to the club newsletter Smaller is Better! Deluxe Membership ---------- $20.00 Includes all the same rights and privileges as the regular membership plus a subscription to the bimonthly Eight Bits & Change, published by Lee Bradley. In the event that Eight Bits & Change ceases publication, the group will substitute another comparable publication or if one is not available, refund the difference between the deluxe and regular memberships 2. Members Who Have Already Renewed Deluxe Memberships in CCP/M will be given to any member who joins or renews his/her membership prior to December 1, 1990 for the old membership rate of $15.00. 3. Club Officers To Be Exempt From Dues In an effort to encourage greater club participation, officers of CCP/M will not have to pay yearly dues. The consensus was that they should be "paid" for the work they do (by not having to pay the $20.) The Bylaws must be amended to address the above. As President, I will coordinate this task. 4. New Member Packet Each new member will receive a new (currently in development) first class Membership Packet which will contain a membership card, Bylaws, lists of CP/M vendors (flyers) and information on the latest club projects, such as the Z-Festival. All current members will receive this packet when it becomes available. Vendors will be allowed to submit preprinted fliers for their products and services to our screening committee (details to be decided on) and if they are acceptable to be included in the new member packet at the rate of $0.10 cents per standard weight page to reimburse the club for postage and handling. CCP/M will attempt to provide some verification of validity of all advertising. 5. Group Direction There was a general feeling that we are now at a crossroads. That we should go national and provide new services. This will be done by furnishing members with technical support for their hardware and software needs. To do this we will solicit members from the entire United States and the world. We will support those businesses and publications that are still catering to the CP/M world. CCP/M - The Hub Of CP/M CCP/M will support beginners, networking, modem freaks, publishers, clubs, comrades, new users, software, programmers, a newsletter, help with hardware problems, serve a need, and at the same time make money for the club to do further support. The core group of dedicated folks should co-ordinate this national emphasis. Those that are really interested in CP/M and Z- System and in providing related services should express themselves and go for it! And that's about the size of it. Let me know what you think. If there isn't any discussion this will all become law. On a personal note, I'd like to thank Tom, Lee and Gary for a lively Executive Meeting and the best of these ideas. If you like what has been said so far, give them the well deserved credit. If you don't, send me the heat because, as another president once said, "The buck stops here." Jim Taylor, President Connecticut CP/M Users' Group September 26, 1990 Smaller is Better!