Second Meeting

Date: 12/05/2005
Members present: 8
Location: Abu Faysal Restaurant, Nicosia

People Showed Up:

1. Bojan D Mijuskovic
2. Chad Hower
3. Haris Petrou 
4. Costas Droussiotis
5. Evangelos Hadjichristodoulou
6. Marinos Hadjimitsis
7. Photis Papaphotiou
8. Stelios Vassiliou

Meeting Details:
During the second meeting, following items have been brought-up to attention and discussed:

1. Setting up of the committee members.  Following decisions have been made:
   o President: Chad Z. Hower
   o Vice-president: Evangelos Hadjichristodoulou
   o Secretarial part has not been finally decided, and for the beginning Marinos Hadjimitsis and Bojan Mijuskovic should work together on providing relevant service.
   o Treasurer: Costas Droussiotis
2. Discussed future sponsorship of the group and possible sponsors
3. Next meeting / event will take place on Thursday (19/05/2005, 18:30).  Exact location is still not known but it should be in Nicosia due to the small number of members from other cities.
   o Possible location is conference room of Microsoft in Nicosia.
   o As a backup option CYTA premises were mentioned. 
4. Evangelos has to confirm with Microsoft or CYTA about the meeting location / space, before Thursday. 
5. Final results about the next event location will be posted on the web site and yahoo groups.
6. Speaker on the next event will be Chad with the following subject: Why .NET?. Additionally Chad will deliver a more advanced session on ADO.NET where extensive experience with the .NET framework and ADO.NET will be required.
7. We estimate that the first session should not exceed 1 hour whereas the second session will be more than 1.5 hours.
   Below is the Analytical Schedule for the following event.
   

   Seminar Name	Time	Level	Presenter
   Why .NET	60 minutes	100 – beginners	Chad Z. Hower
   Advanced ADO.NET	90 minutes	300 – Advanced	Chad Z. Hower

   
   
8. Event should attract .NET beginners and other developers who are considering .NET as an alternative but additionally we need to attract VB developers.
9. For an event to be successful, at least 15~20 members should be present. 
10. Present members on meeting have been encouraged to attract at least one (or two) new persons / members for the next meeting / event. 
11. Eventually we should join INETA.
12. Funding was brought up again as a subject and it was firmly established that in order not to push prospective members away we need to initially operate for free by heavily relying on sponsors. In the future we might issue subscription fee policies such as: 
    1. One year subscription for all events (attractive for companies)
    2. Subscription of specific events (attractive for individuals).
    3. First event free then join (to lure in new members).