DAVIS COMMUNITY NETWORK
Information Providers Committee
MEETING NOTES:
Wednesday, Oct 4, 2000
City of Davis Computer Lab, 600 A
Street
IPC Members Attending: Brattesani,
Chiles, Hance, Yamagata
Absent: Batcheldor, Henn,
Yoder
Visitors: None
1. 6:30 - Approved
agenda
2. We sat at the computers and reviewed
the following
IPC sponsored sites:
a) http://www.dcn.org/go/explorit/
We approved the continuance (thru
10/01) of the bonus 5MB
added to Explorit's nonprofit dial-up
account and recommended
a bonus of a further 10 MB (for a total
bonus of 15 MB on top of the
10MB that come with the nonprofit
dial-up account)
b) http://www.dcn.org/go/stckphto/
We approved a continuance (thru 10/01)
of this site's free shell with a
total of 50MB storage space (no
change).
We decided to ask the site owner (Jason
Aller) to put an
acknowledgement of DCN sponsorship on
the front page
and to give us more information about
his commercial
intentions for the
site.
We also wondered if the site's title
was conducive to it being
found and recognized as an interesting
reflection of Davis
c) http://www.dcn.org/go/gizmo/
We approved the continuance (thru
10/01) of this site's free shell
with a total of 10MB storage space (no
change).
We also gave the site maintainer
(Richard Yamagata) some un-asked-
for suggestions for (in our eyes)
improving the site. Richard took the
suggestions with good grace. They
included some re-arrangement of
the information in what is essentially
a very interesting archive of
literary review/criticism/etc. to make
the contents more apparent to a
visitor to the site.
d) http://www.dcn.org/go/arcview/
This site is not yet up for official
review (which is calendared for our
December meeting) but we started a
discussion now because there
are some adjustments to be made in our
categorization of projects
to include categories of projects that
come under the umbrella of
DCNs MOUs. *
The ArcView site comes under the
umbrella of the City of Davis
MOU and the site owner, Bruce Boyd, has
already requested an
extension. This item is relevant to
item 3 (ii) below.
e) We also reviewed
http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/go/ammon/
which is a site that originated as a
miniproject in 1996. The site
owner, Danny Ammon, is no longer in
Davis. The site was originally
approved for its Hupa language (native
American) content which
is considerable. However, the site also
contains a significant amount
of
personal/vanity/self-promotional-commercial material and
the committee decided to ask Ammon to
adjust the site in order
to minimize or even remove the material
not relevant to the Hupa
content. Anne will contact Danny Ammon
with this request.
3. Discussions:
Free Shell Accounts:
(i) Proposal: consolidate "Long Term
shell" + "Nonprofit shell"
into one category
This was discussed in general terms
and committee members
seemed to agree that this made sense
from a practical viewpoint.
(ii) consider criteria for providing
FREE resources .
e.g. - relevant to an existing
MOU
- past, present or future volunteer
hours
Richard pointed out that the practical
aspect of accounting
for volunteer hours made this
worthwhile practice not
practically possible right
now.
Existing criteria
are:
- not-for-profit
character
- a match with DCN
goals
- maintenance of mission and
character of site
- site activity (not visitation but
updating, upgrading,
and additions
However, Anne suggested that these are
insufficient because
too many entities qulaify. She asked
committee members to
think about additional
criteria
4. Other We talked a bit about new
categories of projects - ones that
would be under the umbrella of an MOU.
Anne introduced Richard
Lowenberg's recommendation that MOU
projects be brought forward at first
by a representative of the MOU entity.
For example: Neighborhood
Association Projects under the City MOU
would be brought forward by Anne
Brunette (but then contact would
presumably be with the project leader)
We adjourned at approximately
7:45pm
* Continued discussion is necessary to
clarify the language we (the IPC) use
regarding what our reviews are supposed
to accomplish. In some cases the
reviews will be an offical check-up as a
prelude to a specific extension-
approval, in other cases (as in an MOU
aligned project) the review might
simply be to reassure the IPC and action
would only be taken if we found
something that went beyond our
understanding of the site.
** NEXT MEETING - November 1, 2000
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