Location: IRC server pnwx.com, channel #asfar
Time: 8:30 pm central time

Board members present: Eric Anderson, Matthew Havens, Justin Mallone, Daniel
McGuire, Larissa Price, Susan Wishnetsky
Members present: Kevin L., Ben P, David SJ, Oliver T
Visitors present: none

The meeting was called to order at 8:46 pm central time.

Approval of Minutes

A motion was made and seconded to approve the minutes of the November 2
meeting; the motion passed 3-0. Susan Wishnetsky commented that she had
forgotten to send an official announcement of the current meeting, although
the scheduled time had been included in the minutes of the meeting of
November 2, which was sent to the announce list. The consensus was that
this
could be considered an announcement and the current meeting would be
considered valid.

Reports of Officers

The President, Eric Anderson, reported that he had received an offer of
legal
assistance from a lawyer in Moscow; he responded that we currently have no
actions pending in Russia.

The Vice-President, Justin Mallone, had no report.

The Secretary, Susan Wishnetsky, reported that she had a severe backlog of
new members to be signed up, as well as sending information and printed
handouts to people wanting to form chapters. Since the major work on the
zine was done, she had recently begun to catch up.

The Treasurer, Eric Anderson, reported that he would be raising two items
later in the meeting.

Reports of Committees.

For the 'zine committee, Susan Wishnetsky reported that Justin had been
experiencing some computer problems, but it seemed that he was able to
resolve them. The print version formatting had been completed and was just
about ready to be printed. Both versions were already a bit late.

The advertising committee reported that it had an item to discuss later in
the meeting.

Old Business.

Approval of writings. David SJ announced a new revision to the voting age
position paper at <http://members.aol.com/machcu/asfar/papers/voting.html>.
Eric Anderson moved to approve the revised paper; the motion was seconded
and
passed 3-0.

New Business

Eric Anderson moved to authorize the treasurer of ASFAR to allow Paypal to
automatically transfer our funds there to an insured money market account.
There was discussion of the variable interest rate and liquidity of the
account. The motion was not seconded, and it was decided to raise the issue
again when more board members were present.

Other Business

Web site advertising. David SJ and Oliver T reported on their investigation
of Amazon.com's advertising program. Since the advertising committee had
not
officially met, it was decided to schedule one for the near future (this was
done after the meeting adjourned).

Ben P. raised the issue of ASFAR's heavy representation of Libertarian Party
members and viewpoints, and expressed his concern that ASFAR might appear to
be affiliated with or dominated by this party's views. This was discussed
at
great length; no examples were found in which ASFAR's official documents
explicitly favored this party, although a few examples were given which, to
some, seemed to suggest this. No motion was made.

The meeting adjourned at 10:39 pm central time.