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DAVIS COMMUNITY NETWORK
Information Providers Committee MEETING NOTES
IPC Regular Monthly Meeting, Wednesday, Mar. 6, 2002
City of Davis Computer Lab, 600 A Street

Members Present: Alan Brattesani, John Chiles, Anne Hance (Chair) , Rajiv Seth, Richard Yamagata

Members Absent: Wendy Yoder,

1. The meeting was called to order at 6:35PM by Chair Anne Hance

2. We approved the agenda with the addition of a last minute request for assistance from the Davis High School PTA.


3. a) The representative from the City of Davis Alternate Fuel Vehicle Task Force (DAFVTF) did not appear. Anne will ask if they still wish to present their request.

b) Tsui Chang presented a request on behalf of the Davis High school PTA (dhspta). The committee approved the follwoing:

The use of 4 Lists intended ultimately for use by parents
of incoming freshmen (9th grades), and parents of the three
high school years 10, 11 and 12.

Option a) Four (4) MailMan Lists without charge for as
long as they are needed by the PTA. These would be
set up with the assistance of the DCN WebTeam and
the contact person is Steve McMahon at steve@dcn.org

Option b) Four Majordomo Lists without charge through
September 15, 2002. The normal fee of $5 per month
per list would be payable to DCN after that time unless
a time extension is requested.

And, The assistance of the DCN Web Team in setting up
and initial management of the MailMan Lists.

In conversation the committee shared with Tsui the suggestion that the PTA might develop some guidelines to resort to if the list is misused in any way. It was agreed, however, that Lists are generally very well behaved.

4. a) (i) Ways to increase project requests: Rajiv suggested something in local papers. Richard L. said this was on his to-do list and would be pushed to the top.

a) (ii) Ways to ensure project success: Richard reported that about 28 people have responded to express interest in one or more classes/workshops. He is working to schedule the classes and needs potential instructors and class helpers to get in touch with him (or vice versa). The relevant form is at
http://www.dcn.org/dcn/ipc/interest_form.html . Anne asked committee members to review last month's meeting notes which include the list of things that are expected to be part of the DCN WebTeam's Template project - and pass any further thoughts on to Steve <steve@dcn.org> .

Other;
Richard Yamagata would like to present a project with Lamp Post Pizza. Anne thought this might not be an IPC project this time (a much earlier project did help the Pizza company) and suggested that Richard approach Richard Lowenberg who would bring the request to the DCN Executive Committee.
Richard Lowenberg may soon have a Knights landing project for the IPC to consider.

5. We adjourned at 7:45 P.M.

NEXT MEETING: Wednesday, April 3, 2002