DAVIS COMMUNITY NETWORK Information Providers Committee EVENT: IPC Regular Monthly Meeting DATE: Wednesday, Dec 6, 2000 TIME: 6:30 - 7:45 pm PLACE: City of Davis Computer Lab, 600 A Street Attending: Alan Brattesani, John Chiles, Anne Hance (Chair), Richard Yamagata, Richard Lowenberg, Steve McMahon Visitor - Web Team member Richard Reid Business: Two Project applications a) Rotary Club of Woodland (emailed application to list 11/21/00) Rick Pomeroy; <jrpomeroy@ucdavis.edu> We approved a 9 month project with one shell account and the option of a MailingList. Richard Yamagata will be the project liaison to facilitate progress and success. b) Yolo Parents of Twins Club - (emailed application to list 11/29/00) Mark Deamer <mdeamer@phoenixdsl.com> We approved a 9 month project with one shell account, a MailingList, and some WebTeam help Richard Yamagata reported that the http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/go/gizmo/ web site has been adjusted in response to IPC comments a few months back. Committee members are asked to review the site to see if the changes are as hoped for. 3. Discussions: A continuation of the joint IPC / WebTeam discussions about the DCN Website A productive discussion resulted in a start on creating a scheme of categories for the home page. The task of reorganizing and reconstructing the site is a big one and the problem of the people-power to accomplish this was touched on but not resolved. The WebTeam could do with a few responsible and skilled people to help with a) determining categories, b) researching the contents for each category, and c) creating the files for the new categories and sub and sub/sub categories. Steve McMahon has been researching and working on open source software to help create a Yahoo-like system. Once the templates are designed the creation of the new pages should be straightforward. 4. 7:45pm Adjournment ** NEXT MEETING - January 3, 2001 **