Davis Community Network Information Providers Committee Regular Meeting, 
June 4, 2003
Meeting Notes

Members present:   Alan Bodenhorn, Alan Brattesani, John Chiles, Anne Hance, 
Richard Yamagata,
Members absent:    Anne Evans, Wendy Yoder
Visitors: 	   Kimball Sergeant, Jim Hughes, Karena Skinner

1.  Called to order at 6:35 pm
2.  Agenda approved as distributed
3.   Introductions
4.  Review of Proposals
     The committee approved the following resources for three projects:
	a)  Davis School Arts Foundation
	     Presented by Karena Skinner
	     Start June 4, 2003    End  Mar 4, 2004
	     1 DCN shell account for email only - no charge
	     1 Simple Site
	     1 Mailman List
	     Web Team assistance with the Simple Site and Mailman

	b)  Dixon Migrant Family Center
	     Jim Grieshop not present.
	     Start June 4, 2003    End  Dec 4, 2004
	     4 temporary DCN dialup accounts - no charge
		These probably still exist from last year's project.
	     Help and support by Richard Lowenberg and the Web Team.

	c)  Davis Senior High Jazz Choir
	     Presented by Jim Hughes
	     Start June 4, 2003    End  Mar 4, 2004
	     1 DCN shell account for email only - no charge
	     1 Simple Site
	     1 Mailman List
	     Web Team assistance with the Simple Site and Mailman

5.  Conversation with Kimball Sargeant, DCN President, about the IPC and 
DCN touched on several issues. Kimball suggested that the committee might 
promote the DCN organization and its mission and activities to the project 
applicants a bit more than happened this evening.

6.  The committee discussed an issue concerning how Zope Simple Sites are 
used. This resource was designed as a relatively uncomplicated alternative to a 
traditional web site. It is possible that some users will find that they want to use 
more Zope resources
 that the Simple Sites were expected to handle. The committee suggested two 
possible strategies:
	a) Encourage such users to put most or all of their content into
	    a traditional shell account;
	b) Encourage the DCN Web Team to work on strategies to deal
	    with the space and Simple Site organization issue.

7.  Anne explained why the resources provided earlier to City Council candidates 
Saylor and Souza could not be made available for free. Such support could be 
perceived as support for the candidate and the resources as in-kind contributions 
to their campaigns.

8. Other:  Richard Yamagata asked the question:  Is DCN going to continue to 
provide free address aliasing on the server?

Richard explained that this has been a free service since the inception of DCN.  
The cost of address aliasing is $12.95/month and has typically not been imposed 
upon the city council or any elected's or candidates web site on DCN.

Examples of the address aliasing to which Richard was referring would be:
http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/go/greenwald2000/  or   
http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/go/gunnell/

The question of appearances came up in the discussion - ie. does this appear that 
DCN is endorsing such candidates? The committee decided that this question 
should be referred to the DCN Exec or the Board.  Anne thought perhaps concern 
would be alleviated if there were to be a disclaimer on the DCN page where such 
links were placed.

Adjourned at 7:50 pm
Next meeting  July 2, 2003