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103 lines
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From: sjackson@tic.com (Steve Jackson)
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To: eff-a@tic.com
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Subject: Minutes of March 10 meeting
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MINUTES OF AUSTIN EFF DIRECTORS' MEETING - March 10, 1992
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Held at 7:30pm at Matt Lawrence's. Directors present were Jon
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Lebkowsky, Matt Lawrence, Smoot Carl-Mitchell, Steve Jackson, Ed
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Cavazos. Observing: Dick Anderson, Gavino Morin.
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Minutes of the last meeting were approved w/o reading.
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Recommendations on organization and our official status - Ed
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presented his first draft of a charter and by-laws. He and Gavino
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had collaborated on these. Lots of discussion; some blanks filled
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in, others debated but not filled in, more blanks discovered. Decisions
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included:
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We will ask Cambridge for a copy of their charter in order to
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make language of purpose, etc., identical where possible.
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There will be 9 directors and an undetermined number of advisory
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directors.
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Local dues will be $10/year, or $5 per students, but we won't set
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a corporate structure yet.
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Individual members will be strongly encouraged to join the national
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EFF, but not required.
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Meetings and publicity - We still don't have any committments. Jon
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and Dick will try to get something definite from MCC.
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We need to prepare a membership package for the local group, once
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the first meeting is set. SJ will do DTP and printing, Smoot will take
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care of postage.
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Jon is now keeping a separate stock of literature, to make it
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easier for him and others to get material without going by SJ's office.
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Local activities since the last meeting:
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The GTC finished as well as it started; we got lots of names of
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people interested in information. Bruce participated in a panel and was
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reportedly the hit of the show.
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Steve Jackson, along with Mike Godwin, went to Kansas City to the
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ACM meeting to take the negative in an ACM debate on the proposition
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(stated briefly) "Should the states license software professionals?"
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Audience of about 100; it went well. John Barlow was at the same event,
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participating in another panel.
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SJ also passed out EFF literature and answered questions at OrcCon,
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a very large (2,000-plus attendees) gaming convention in Los Angeles.
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Local activities, upcoming or proposed:
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The Austin Peace Festival takes place April 25. Jon reports that we
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can reserve a booth for $20. He has not yet done so due to lack of Board
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response to his postings on the subject.
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The UT College of Communication is interested in having an EFF speaker
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at their Communications Week, April 1-4. It looks as though Steve Jackson
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and Mike Godwin will both participate.
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When Bruce's HACKER CRACKDOWN book is published, EFF-Austin
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should sponsor a signing. Maybe at a local bookstore . . . maybe at a
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computer store. Bruce is willing. The book will be released in September.
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Mailing list - Jon was going to meet with Earl Cooley to discuss
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this. Earl may be out of communication; Jon hadn't gotten back with
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him, but will do so before next meeting.
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CyberTex was discussed again. Consensus that it can't happen this
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year - tentatively, about this time next year sounds right. Jon and Ed
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will call a meeting specifically for those interested in CyberTex;
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the convention committee needs to start meeting separately. Important
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decisions needed: Basic committee structure, basic agenda, preferred
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date. SJ volunteered to call hotels once preferred date is set.
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Computer display program - No progress.
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Logo - we now have a working graphics file of the star, cannon and
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"Come And Take It" image. The EFF logo has been completed, but we have
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not yet seen it.
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Dick Anderson discussed a case, reported in the newest issue of
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AMERICAN RIFLEMAN, of a gun owner who was subjected to an intrusive
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and destructive surprise search by BATF (Treasury Department) agents.
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He suggested that the EFF should contact the NRA and offer to share
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information on Fourth Amendment issues, since the case sounds very
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similar to the SJ Games and Sun Devil raids. For instance, the raid
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was made in great force, on a sealed "no comment" warrant, but
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nothing was found.
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Susan Cisco sent some searches done on SJ's name in the Nexus/Lexis
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database. Consensus: Nothing new here, but the search is a good thing
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- it just happens that this time we had all the data already. Susan
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was not present, and sent word that she will not have time to be a
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director but is interested in serving as an advisor.
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Jon's suggestion for a retreat was discussed. Reaction were mixed.
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No action was taken.
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We have gotten no further data on the bust of "Archaic Illume." Ed
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will make some calls and see if he can find anything further.
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Still awaiting discussion is the "Interactive University" proposal
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from Dick Cutler at UT. Is this something we are able and willing to
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support in any way?
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Our next directors' meeting will be Tuesday, April 14, at 7:30
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at Matt's house. Note that the agenda for the March 10 meeting said
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the next meeting would be April 7. This was wrong.
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