DAVIS COMMUNITY NETWORK Information Providers Committee Meeting Notes EVENT: IPC Regular Monthly Meeting DATE: Wednesday, March 7, 2001 TIME: 6:30 - 7:45 pm PLACE: City of Davis Computer Lab, 600 A Street IPC Members Attending (Quorum 4): John Chiles, Anne Hance (Chair), Richard Yamagata, Wendy Yoder Members absent: John Batchelder, Alan Brattesani, Also Present: Richard Lowenberg, Steve McMahon, Richard Reid 1. 6:30 - Meeting called to order and agenda amended to include item 2c. 2. Business: a) Committee approved Explorit's request for 3 e-mail only accounts. (The request will be reviewed at or before the February 2002 IPC meeting) b) We discussed the inquiry from Simpalife and agreed that Fairfield is too far out of our area of services to involve in our project or non-profit programs. Anne will suggest to Simpalife that the two Davis organizations be encouraged to apply to the IPC. c) Richard Reid carried a message to the IPC that a consortium of Economic Development Groups/Departments and area Chambers of Commerce have an immediate need for an Internet tool to allow online communication and discussion concerning Tourism issues. The committee approved the provision of a Web Board for this purpose and Steve agreed to set up a Board and to work with Richard Reid who will be the Board Manager. 3. Discussion: We continued the discussions about the DCN Website revision and the use of Zope to manage the site. Most of the discussion centered around developing guidelines for potential managers of the various areas of the site. For "example" (suggestions not 'decrees'): Businesses requesting linkage must give Davis Business License, and a local contact name and address. Organizations requesting linkage must provide a local contact name and address as well as a brief description of the services/benefit to the community. Individuals requesting linkage must provide a local contact name and address and a brief explanation of the purpose of the page for which linkage is requested. All linked pages must have contact information on the top page. All requested links must fit within an existing DCN web page category (business, arts and entertainment, health, etc. etc.) Managers will be required to compare the actual Web page with the description given in the request. DCN's linkage pages will carry a disclaimer explaining that DCN does not endorse the content of other's linked pages. DCN will identify its service as "Community oriented" in order to make it more straightforward to determine if a request is inappropriate for the DCN web site. Issues remaining are (amongst others certainly): Will the age of the applicant be an issue? What group will determine 'grey area' requests? What - given free speech, liability, privacy etc issues - should DCN not allow? To check out the ZOPE test area go to: http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us:8080/test/ 4. 7:50pm Adjournment NOTE: There were severe problems unlocking and especially with locking the outer door. (Anne reported this to the Parks & Rec office the following morning) ** NEXT MEETING - April 4, 2001 **