The Program Committee could still use another person to help with the November meeting and the March meeting. Tamara will send the information about Paul Atwood who has expressed interest in becoming involved to Jaye.

Hospitality Committee -- Thanks to Lincoln Cushing for this report.

November meeting

Jaye is the contact. Everything is set up and the first announcement has been sent out. Jaye would still like another committee member to take over this meeting.

November dinner meeting -- Lincoln has done some additional outreach, partly because of the East Bay location and partly because the topic may not be seen as particularly sexy. He has notified the UCB Transportation

library specifically (see flyer SLAInvitePublic2.pdf), and a notice will

be going out on the "CU News" UCB library list this week. Who knows,

might bring in some fresh blood. He also set up a "general public" flyer

(SLAInvitePublic.pdf attached) that Anna wanted to post in her window

before the event to alert regular patrons of our private party restaurant closure- it also might attract someone for the talk itself.

Maggie questioned whether the Networking Chair could spread the word via other listservs. Bonnie will contact Camille to notify the Sierra Nevada Chapter, San Andreas Chapter and BayNet. Jaye has already posted it to NOCALL, and Tasha has sent it to SJSU.

Brian has passed along his Excel spreadsheet for tracking reservations

and credit card number. Jaye plans on e-mailing out confirmations to all

signups before the event.

Signups as of this moment:

Karin Zilla (sponsor)

Tamara Horacek

Barbara Bernhart

Tim DeWolff/Cristina Campbell

Nancy Adams (subscription)

Rita Evans (")

Chris Orr (")

Maggie O'Brien (")

known NOT coming: Pamela Miller

Sign-up are slow for this meeting. Jaye will send out the meeting notice again. There was some confusion as to whether it had appeared on the reflector. There are only 65 seats at Anna’s. Tamara questioned whether we have a minimum for a meeting. Jaye will check on this but the general feeling was that we would present the meeting even if the space was not full.

January Meeting

Joint meeting with Baynet. Our program for 1/30 -- What's Hot and Not Google has all the speakers lined up. They will be from Teoma, AlltheWeb and SurfWax. We need to know the location so we can tell them the Internet or Powerpoint capabilities at the site. Lauri thinks Powerpoint is more reliable than a live Internet connection so she'd favor that. Lauri and Richard Geiger are the contacts for the Program Committee. Tamara pointed out that we need to clarify the split arrangement with BayNet. Jaye will discuss with her Committee and with BayNet. All agreed that the question of Internet connection was problematic. Wess Murdough will be the event contact,

since it's a joint meeting with BayNet. Location scouting is in process,

ideally something at the southern end of SF. Suggestions to Wess, please.

March Meeting

Vivian Kobayashi is still trying to finalize a speaker for the March meeting. KFOG initially said that they didn’t want to come. Vivian had a suggestion and contact name for KOIT from Lauri Flynn and a suggestion from Deb Hunt who has a contact at Susquehanna Broadcasting (KFOG parent). Vivian is following up on both of them. Chris Orr has sent a possible speaker for next year, but we may use him for the March meeting if we can’t pin down a Radio speaker and he agrees. His name is Tim Kelley and he does the research to help homebuyers learn about their home's history and former inhabitants. The concept of the radio speaker is to discuss and demonstrate how fast things happen on the radio. Maggie and Tasha might have some contacts. They will call Vivian. There was a big article today on Tim Kelley on SFGate. In terms of other speaker ideas, the Board is not terribly interested in people from the publishing industry, but authors are always a good idea. The May meeting may have an author.

Tours Committee -- Thanks to Terry Richards for this report.

The Tours Committee has had two well attended (and by the feedback quite successful) Tours already this Fall season.

Presidio Trust Tour

(Shuttle Bus was filled to capacity, and we were able to accommodate three folks from the wait list. See feedback comments gathered by host Barbara Janis in the attached file.)

Berkeley Public Library

Our guest list exceeded 40 persons and a few non-registrants arrived as well. (I can get the exact number from Marlene Vogelsang who managed the sign-up process with help from Maggie O'Brien.) Since Tours usually attract between 15 - 20 people, I think this was a nice turnout. A delightful article about the Tour was written for the next Bayline issue by Pamela Miller, our new member of the Tours Committee. Richard Geiger helped us to obtain photos to accompany the article, and Steve Cooney stretched the deadline to admit Pamela's story. See attached document with Tours comments

February 2003 Tour

Hopefully, we can offer a third Tour in February, the next upcoming

month without a Dinner Meeting. Would like that to be an "indoor"

Tours Committee also includes: Marlene Vogelsang, Jo Falcon and

Pamela Miller.

There was an extended discussion about fundraising and sponsorship that Robert Burke is chairing. Endymion is doing a raffle at the November meeting. The question of the amount of donation and a corresponding free dinner came up. Nancy will follow up with Robert. The criteria were set a number of years ago and need to be re-visited. Robert is experimenting with some new approaches in this difficult economic climate.

Survey results from the September Dinner Meeting were presented in Excel format. Most people heard about it from email lists. People came because of the speaker, but also because of networking. Most people thought the price was right and the format was fine. Only got 68 surveys out of about 120 people. Only problem was that nobody from Hospitality stayed until the end and Chris had to put extras on her American Express card.