Agenda:

1:00-1:30 Introductions and Announcements
1:30-2:00 TACLUG Election and Business Meeting
          - Approve minutes of last meeting
          - Elect one new board member to fill a vacancy
            - Board member Jeff Plaxton resigned due to military deployment
            - Candidates are Dave Hawkins and Joel Parker
          - Vote to remove inactive members from the membership roll
          - New business, if any

2:00-2:45 Randolph Bentson
          X Window System -- graphical system analogue to assembly language
          Intro to X, desktop environments and window managers
          
3:00-4:00 Desktop Show and Tell
          Bring you own customized desktop to show to the group. Overhead projector provided, no need to bring your monitor along.

Notes:

The following are the minutes from the March, 2004, Tacoma Linux User
Group (TACLUG) business meeting.

The business meeting began at 1:45 PM on March 20, 2004, at the Tacoma
Wheelock Library.

The first order of business was to approve the minutes from the previous
business meeting of October 18, 2003, that was held at Dave Evans and
Associates offices. The minutes were unanimously approved.

The next order of business was to expel members who had not fulfilled
membership requirement to attend at least one general membership meeting
in the past six months. After considering the list of people to expel,
the following were expelled:

John Berghammer, Mark Dozier, Nancy Dozier, Aaron Grewell, Andrew
Henderson, Bryan Hochstrasser, Jeff Jennings, Jon McCoy, Tod Merley,
Gery Mullen, Leland Olds, Robert Paschal, John Renwick, Jeff Shaw, Berry
Sizemore, and Mark Swanicke.

The following members were debated and voted to remain on the membership
list:

Joel Carlson (in attendence), Aaron Dowtin (stationed in Iraq), and
Andrew Grimberg (in attendence).

Tne next order of business was to vote on a new board member to replace
Jeff Plaxton, who had resigned due to military deployment. Wes Jennings
and Andrew Kouklis served as the election committee. Candidates to the
new board position were Dave Hawkins and Joel Parker. Both candidates
were given an opportunity to speak of their qualifications.

Joel Parker was elected to the position. From the 27 members present,
the vote went as follows:

19  Joel Parker
 8  Dave Hawkins

After the count was completed, the group voted unanimously to
adjourn the business meeting.