These Meeting Notes are a Draft DAVIS COMMUNITY NETWORK Information Providers Committee MEETING NOTES IPC Regular Monthly Meeting, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2002 City of Davis Computer Lab, 600 A Street Members Present: John Chiles, Anne Hance (Chair) , Richard Yamagata Members Absent: Alan Brattesani, Rajiv Seth, Wendy Yoder, Visitor: Mike McCreary (came with RY) 1. The meeting was called to order at 6:30PM by Chair Anne Hance 2. We approved the agenda Anne distributed a chart showing current projects and we discussed a couple that are just about to end. John Chiles' Auksuchai Foundation site has been up for some time. John has some changes to make which will probably not need IPC intervention. The shell contents do not come up for review until August. The Yolo Connection project has not sent the IPC any progress report so RY will contact them to see if they have accomplished what the wanted to. 3. Projects: Tom Sands attended the meeting to ask for assistance with the Wildhorse Neighborhood Association Web Project. We authorized the following resources: One shell account - default storage, no charge Web Team help One MailMan List The List will be set up when the WebTeam is ready to make them (MailMan Lists) widely available. The question of whether or not DCN will eventually need to charge for any of the MailMan Lists needs to be considered. 4. Open Discussions a) We talked rather briefly about the workshops/classes likely to be needed by IPC projects. This is not a new discussion and little needed to be added. Steve and Richard talked a bit about the Zope Workshops (there will probably be two; a technical one first and then a general one). Steve mentioned that the WebTeam may return to using the City Training Room for their Thursday meetings since the DCN Office is cramped and allows little opportunity for more than one or two team members at a time to do anything constructive. Steve thinks that perhaps the Web team will offer one workshop a month on alternating topics which will include MailMan List management. b) We had a good discussion about the general needs of Neighborhood Organizations seeking support from DCN. Richard L. has been trying to reach Anne Brunette of the City staff who did not respond to Anne's email. We think perhaps that the City listing for Ann(e?) Brunette's email address is quite wrong. Anne H. found that it omitted the ci from the domain and Richard L. noticed that perhaps the username is listed wrongly too. Steve and the WebTeam have been working on a possible template for neighborhood and other nonprofit groups to use while they are still relatively inexperienced at manipulating Internet technologies for their own use. Steve brought a draft of main aspects for the committee to discuss. The List included the following aspects which would be pretty much automated via a web interface: An Event Calendar (moderated or un) News, News Archive (weblog style, moderated or un) Photo Album Discussion (moderated or un) Document container (for docs such as CC&Rs, ByLaws) Minutes container (this was suggested by RY) List Signup Link to Archives Automatic Navigation (if additional folders or pages are added Site search John wondered if image maps with hot spots for the various neighborhood Association Web Sites might be a good addition. This led to a bit of discussion about the use of, and links to, maps. Some concern was related to making use of commercial sites in a way that DCN might prefer not to do. RL mentioned that there are some nonprofit Map sites. During discussion it was observed that it might be particularly important for some groups that they post a set of guidelines explaining the philosophy behind the content especially the reminder that the free DCN resources should not be used to provide commercial links on behalf of individual group members. 5. Adjourn at 7:45 p.m. NEXT MEETING: Wednesday, March 6, 2002 --