DAVIS COMMUNITY NETWORK Information Providers Committee MEETING NOTES IPC Regular Monthly Meeting, Wednesday, December 5, 2001 City of Davis Training Room, 600 A Street Members Present: John Chiles, Anne Hance (Chair), Rajiv Seth, Richard Yamagata, Wendy Yoder Members Absent: Alan Brattesani, Richard Lowenberg Visitors: Liz Merry 1. The meeting was called to order at 6:30pm 2. The agenda was approved with the change of item 5. to read 5. Other and Announcements at the request of Richard Y. 3. We discussed the Web Design Workshop to be offered by Richard Reid: Date Monday, January 14, 2002. Time 7pm - 9pm Fee $40 Place City Training Room Registration via web form - which will be posted soon Eligibility Representatives of current or recent IPC projects (will be given first chance to register - their fee will be waived) Reps of area nonprofits - fee 50% discounted? - not decided Participants Eleven (11) NOTE: IPC Projects will be notified first and several days later the announcement will be made more public. If there is extensive interest additional workshops will be scheduled. 4. Project/Request Reviews: a) MINI PROJECT - CA Duck Days presented by Liz Merry We approved the Duck days project as follows; Start: December 5, 2001 End: September 5, 2002 Contact: Liz Merry verve@dcn.davis.ca.us Resources: WebTeam help and advice Participation in Training workshops with fee waiver Goal Upgrade and beautify the Duck Days website which is already hosted by DCN. b) FREE NONPROFIT SHELL - Woodland Business Link presented by Richard Yamagata Richard described the nonprofit, networking, business group on whose behalf he is requesting a DCN shell account. Committee members had not reviewed the site which already exists on a Woodland server and so a decision was deferred to give members a chance to review the site at http://www.business-link.org The contents of this site would be copied over to a DCN shell presumably using the address www.dcn.davis.ca.us/go/bizlink/ c) FREE NONPROFIT SHELL - ATLAS - for committee discussion This request came from a group located in belize and the IPC found no connection with Davis or the region in which DCN functions. The request will be denied with an explanatory email from the IPC Chair. 5. Other and Announcements: a. Richard Yamagata asked if the IPC was planning a joint meeting with the WebTeam to strategize DCN's involvement in the upcoming election - in which DCN assists with providing public information on its website. Anne said that this had not come up recently and so she would contact the WebTeam Chair (Steve). b. Richard said that he has put the results of a questionnaire that he recently circulated to DCN subscribers at the URL http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/go/yamagata/poll/ c. Anne reviewed the meeting packet which included the following handouts to be stored in committee members' new, blue, shiny IPC folders :) 1. Details of the 3 requests for discussion this evening 2. Regular Excel report of recent and current IPC Projects 3. Printout of IPC website homepage 4. Printout of IPC Mini-Sponsored Project page on Website 5. 9 pages printout from IPC database of projects 6. 2 pages listing all 82 IPC projects in alpha order 7. 2 pages listing all 82 IPC projects in date order 8. 2 pages showing names of the 46 (out of 82) IPC projects with Web pages 6: Adjournment at 7:50pm NEXT IPC Meeting January 2, 2002