Financial Report:

Don Frieze reports yet another good month.

Membership:

A request was given to the Membership Director to make it possible that membership numbers would no longer need to be "recycled," and to restore original numbers to the members or ex-members to whom they were assigned. This permits a rudimentary indication that members with lower numbers have longevity vs. members with higher numbers having recently joined, and maintains integrity in the numbering system.

Chamber of Commerce:

Milt presented an invitation to have SPCUG join the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce. The costs ($250) vs. presumed benefits (networking, social functions, business self-help resources, advertising, free listing in various business announcements and lists) vs. appropriate target and scope were discussed—motion passed.

Sacra Blue:

Milt was flooded with protests when he e-mailed to the general membership Sacra Blue's PDF. Just a link to the file will do fine, thank you. Sixty pages (lots of images), four megabytes.

There was discussion on the division of responsibility for acquiring and billing for advertisements.

Ken Hopkins put seven issues of Sacra Blue and an index on a small CD-ROM, to be duplicated and distributed at COMDEX as a tool for obtaining advertisers and meeting presenters. The CD-ROM is intended to eventually be a year-end distribution to all members.

Web site / eBlue:

Be sure the Group's phone number is on the site.

Calweb has also given the Group FTP storage (ftp://ftp.calweb.com/users/s/sacpcug). (ftp.sacpcug.org doesn't work yet.)

APCUG:

Elections coming up at COMDEX.

Public Relations:

Announcements have found their way far and wide. Guests at the main meeting are informing the membership table staff that they are attending because of these PR announcements.

September's Main Meeting:

Consensus: Microsoft did a pretty good job. Milt declared a Microsoft No-Bashing Zone, which kept audience rancor to a minimum.

Future Main Meeting Speakers:

Nothing new—no motion necessary.

Nov—Shareware demos
Dec—Parallax
Jan—RoboHelp
Mar—Quicken