Call to Order                                                                            Mark

 

Members Present: Sean Campbell, Ed Mikesell, Gary Laxdal, Mark Lynn

Members Absent: Charlie Eicher, Greg Osler, Maureen Gaynor, Ron Brennan, Gordon Maccani, Charlie Eazor -Resigned

 

Adoption of Minutes from July 27, 2001                                        Passed 

 

Adoption of Financial Report                                                              Passed

 

Financial

Business Partners

-          Gary will draft a letter and send to fusion VAR’s

-          Trisys (Tapit Call Accounting) Sean to contact regarding business partnership

-          Anyone of us approached by the many vendors out there should consider talking to them about business partnerships rather than just ignoring them. Talk to them; point them to our web site, etc.

 

Travel expense

-          NECSI will cover room only, council member will provide credit card for incidentals and these charges will be considered part of the daily per diem.

-          Per diem will be set at each meeting

o        October 2001             Thursday            $ 50

Friday                         $100

Saturday            $100

 

Motion was made by Mark to increase NECSI membership dues to $500 per year (assuming that NEC will coop)

 

Membership Dues – Mark is working with NEC to include the membership dues as a 100% coop item.

 

Meetings 2002 Schedule - tentative

            Dates                                        Suggested Locals

            January 24-25, 2002                   San Diego, California

 

            April Advantage                                 Orlando

 

            July 25-26, 2002                        Motion by Gary to host the July meeting

Calgary / Monterey / San Francisco

 

            October 3-4, 2002                       Jacksonville, FL

 

Alternate Channel Issues           

NEC Dealer Locator still not corrected – another email forwarded to NEC Jay Krauser October 2001

 

Motion made by Sean, seconded by Mark to amend bylaws to qualify Nitsuko(Infrontia) associate dealers and VAR resellers to become NECSI members. Since we did not have a quorum we decided to but this motion out to the rest of the council members via email.

 

 

 

Alternate Channel Issues – cont’

Motion made by Sean to amend bylaws to explicitly exclude ‘Wholesale Distributors’ as qualified to become NECSI members. This motion was tabled for further discussion and vote at the January meeting.

 

Crosstalk

Article content suggestions:

            NEC Article about Nitsuko and NECSI

            NECSI Benefit article

            Understanding the Wholesale distributor / NEC relationship.

 

Administrative