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DAVIS COMMUNITY NETWORK

Information Providers Committee MEETING NOTES IPC Regular

Monthly Meeting, Wednesday, May 1, 2002 City of Davis

Computer Lab, 600 A Street

Members Present: Alan Brattesani, John Chiles, Anne Hance

(Chair) , Rajiv Seth, Richard Yamagata, Wendy Yoder,

Visitors: Pam Nieberg to present the FFSOG Proposal

1. The meeting was called to order at 6:35 p.m. by the Chair

2. We approved the Agenda with two added items 3b and 3c below.

3. Projects:

a) Pam Nieberg, a representative of the

Frontier Fertilizer Superfund Oversight Group (FFSOG) presented

her request. It was approved by consensus as follows

Organization Real Name: Frontier Fertilizer Superfund Oversight

Group

Organization DCN Username: to be determined by applicant

Applicant's Real Name: Pam Nieberg

Applicants Billing Address: not to be billed

DCN Resource made available: One free shell account - for

indefinite period, with 5MB total web storage space

IPC Liaisons: John Chiles and Richard Yamagata.

* FFSOG may contact the DCN WebTeam if necessary for guidance

and assistance in ensuring that the web pages work well on the DCN

server. * FFSOG has the option of later requesting a Mailman

mailing list.

b) Explorit Science Center requested a second Mailman List

for use as an announcement list for the center's volunteers. This was

moved by John Chiles, seconded by Richard Yamagata and

approved by consensus. The committee asked if Explorit might be

expected to repeat the request as it found a need for more lists. Anne

said that this was very possible but recommended that the committee

not approve any additional lists now but instead wait for Explorit to

discover its needs.

c) The Davis Branch of Soroptimists International

resubmitted a proposal made last Fall. (The group found itself

unable to follow through at that time and withdrew its request.) The

re-submission was made by Cathy Norman in an email to Anne. The

IPC felt that it was not necessary for Cathy to repeat her request in

person since it had been approved when first submitted. The

following resources were moved by John Chiles, seconded by

Wendy Yoder and re-approved by consensus. Anne agreed to

contact Cathy to confirm the details before sending official

announcements to Omsoft and the DCN Office:

Project: Soroptimists International of Greater Davis

Project Start: May 1, 2002

Project end date Feb 1, 2003

Contact: Cathy Norman

Resources:

1 nonprofit shell account - with no charge and to continue for an

indefinite period after the end of the project if requested.

1 Mailman List - without charge

WebTeam help if needed

DCN Training workshop on May 6, 2002 recommended

The committee decided to recommend that the organization

independently apply for a DCN nonprofit dial-up account for the

normal charge which is less than $100 per year.

4. Discussions:

(i) The committee agreed that a newspaper article would be a

good way to increase awareness amongst local non profit groups of

DCN's interest in providing help and encouragement to facilitate use

of Internet technologies to improve groups' abilities to address their

missions. We had a brief, very productive brainstorming of

elements that should be included in such an article and Anne agreed

to write a draft based on these and to circulate it by email to IPC

members for comment. A semifinal draft incorporating committee

feedback will be circulated to IPC members and then a final draft

given to Richard Lowenberg to submit to the Enterprise.

(ii) The issue of ways to help ensure project success was not

addressed.

5. Richard Yamagata asked when the IPC would be reviewing

current projects and Anne noted that the IPC has tended to do this as

an annual event (for the sake of efficiency) rather than on the

anniversary of each individual projects start date.

Anne, realizing that she would be out of the country on June 5

which is the date of the next IPC Meeting, asked Alan Brattesani if

he would call the June meeting with the help of Richard Lowenberg

(for key and code access etc.) At the June meeting the current plan is

to do the annual project review and Anne promised to have a web

page up and running with links to facilitate access to project web

sites.

6. The meeting was adjourned at 7:45 p.m.

NEXT MEETING: Wednesday, June 5, 2002