S P A C E

NEWSLETTER March, 2002

Michael
President's Corner
by Michael Current
March, 2002

It was a bit of an abrupt surprise to arrive at the Falcon Heights Community Center last month, only a few minutes before our 7:30 meeting start time as usual, only to discover that those who had arrived before me here huddled in a group outside. Turns out there was good reason, Greg had earlier arrived, but without the key. So, I think I got this right, he raced all the way home and back, and still made it in time for our meeting to start on time?? Do we have enough money in the treasury to buy Greg a radar detector?

This month may also be a little unusual for the meeting. We understand that there will be a large gathering in the main room where we normally meet. We decided last month to meet at our usual date and time anyway, and just use the little conference room which technically is all we've been renting for a while now. With the numbers of us showing regularly these days, we should be able to fit in that room just fine.

I emailed member Steven Peck the scanned image files of our club logos, and I received from Lance what looked like some great artwork in development, so it seems the CD-ROM project is continuing to move forward.

I guess I went hog-wild with adding a counter to the SPACE home page. Taking all advantage of the features of this web server I operate, I added counters for: hits this hour, hits this day, hits this week, hits this month, and hits since 2/9/02. At this moment (2/16/02 12:45pm) the counters read:

This page has been viewed:
3 times since 12:07:13 PM.
13 times since 2:47:40 AM.
112 times since Sunday, February 10, 2002.
136 times since Saturday, February 9, 2002.
136 times since Saturday, February 9, 2002.

Many of the hits between 2/9 and 2/10 were when I was setting up the counters! Visit the page to see how the numbers have risen since I wrote this.

I also just added a little '8-bit Atari telnet BBSs' section to the comp.sys.atari.8bit newsgroup Welcome FAQ, and of course included Nolan's Nest & SPACE BBS, telnet://spacebbs.no-ip.com. The Welcome FAQ is auto-posted every 7 days, so this should further get the word out about the BBS.

Thanks, keep using that Atari, and come to your next SPACE meeting, Friday, March 8, 2002.


Greg
Treasurer's Report
by Greg Leitner
For February, 2001

Not a great start to the February meeting. I got all the way to the meeting and found out I had left the key at home. I waited for someone else to show up so that I could return home and fetch the key. I was lucky in that my wife was still at home otherwise I would have been locked out and really in a pickle. As it turned out I made great time and got back within an hour and made it on time for the 7:30 start. After all this it was clear sailing through the meeting and we had a memorable one.

Nolan is going great guns on the BBS and he is getting quite a few hits and more importantly he is getting repeats. I hope everything will continue on this course as it seems this will be something the Club could take advantage of. We had a lively discussion although there were only seven members present at the meeting. I look forward to more BBS news along with Mike's work on the website. Together, the website and the BBS could be just what the SPACE club needs to get rejuvenated.

Not much to report in the month of February. I am still awaiting the fourth quarter 2001 room rental bill and if I don't have it in a couple of weeks I guess I will have to call and request it. Here is the activity in our account for February:

Beginning balance for Feb 1, 2002: 981.02
Receipts for February meeting
Dom Sales                                 15.00
Expenses for February meeting
BBS phone                                 10.00
Ending balance for Feb 28, 2002          986.02

As you can see it was pretty much a wash for the month as we gained $5.00. If I get the bill for the room rental our balance will still be above $900.00 and that is still awesome.

Next month we will have to use the Conference Room for our meeting as one of the office workers has a groomsman's dinner planned for our night. We will just have to make do with the smaller quarters, but I think it will work out all right. Try to make the next meeting and get up to date with all the exciting things going on with SPACE. See you all there.


Picture Needed

Secretary's Report
by Brian Little
For February, 2001

Brian-Angel C. Little, SPACE Secretary
No Minutes Received From Brian.


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