Davis Community Network
Resource Allocation Committee
Regular Meeting Feb. 2, 2005
Meeting Notes

Members present:   Bodenhorn, Brattesani, Chiles, Evans, Hance,
Absent:    Seth, Yamagata, Lowenberg
Visitors:   Tsui Chang

1. Called to Order at 6:35 PM

2.  Project Reviews:
Two project applicants had notified the chair that they 
unexpectedly were unable to attend. These were the 
representatives for Davis Dragons and AAUW.  The third 
applicant, representing Davis Citizens for Representation, did not 
appear.

3.  Review of resources allocated in past 12 months or so.
Anne had printed the homepages of 18 simple sites and committee 
members examined these briefly at the beginning of the meeting.  
It was apparent that some groups have been able to use the simple 
sites creatively while others have maintained the simple look. Both 
types looked as if they would be equally effective in 
communicating information.

Many of the sites were up to date but some were not and on some 
it was hard to tell.  It might be a good idea to suggest that the web 
authors use complete dates. Most use month and day without the 
year in the dates. Very few have "updated on" dates which would 
be very helpful for a web visitor.

A few Simple Sites looked as if they had stalled and a small 
number of those allocated seem not to have been initiated.   The 
committee wondered how DCN could provide more assistance 
(this is not a new concept)  without leaning entirely on the Web 
Team's special simple site/mailman and Calendar classes.  A 
community computer lab would of tremendous value for this and 
many other services.

The committee wondered if there is a way of  finding out how 
much traffic the simple sites get.

It was agreed that the chair should contact each project leader 
asking what sort of further assistance might be helpful.

Other:
a)   How about an occasional brief announcement in the 
Enterprise' "Briefly" section reminding people about the way to 
request specific event entries on the Community Calendar.   Might 
the same information be submitted to DCTV announcements.

b)  Would DCN or the RAC consider participating in FM 101.5 
KDRT's "Access Davis" show on a Friday from 12 - 1 PM  The 
program is hosted by Anne Evans and she would be very 
interested.

Adjourned at  7:30 PM

Next meeting  March 2, 2005