Davis Community Network
Resource Allocation Committee
Regular Meeting Aug. 3, 2005
Meeting Notes

Present:  Bodenhorn, Brattesani, Chiles, Evans, Hance, Yamagata, Chang, Lowenberg Ex Officio

Visitors: Diana Childress, Julia Herdt, Mark Stinson.

1.  Called to order  at 6:32 p.m.
2.  Approved agenda as distributed  with addition of 3 c)
3.  Approved resource requests as follows:

	a) Winters Participation Gallery Project for the Arts
	      Presented by Diana Childress
		I Simple Site
		2 Mailman Lists
		1 Calendar
		Web Team help
	Start Aug 3, 2005 - end indefinite

	b)  Davis Community Church
	      Presented by Julia Herdt  and Mark Stinson
		1 Calendar
	Start Aug 3, 2005 - end indefinite

      	c)  We discussed Richard Yamagata's request on behalf of "Jerry's 
Heart's In Davis" and concluded that the best idea is for Richard to purchase the 2 
Mailman Lists at $5 per month payable through Omsoft (all the fee is returned 
to DCN).   The committee agreed that it is very reluctant to approve a forum 
since they have not proved to be a successful tool for group information-sharing 
and are time consuming for the Web Team to set up. The committee wondered if 
a Yahoo Groups forum would work for the applicant.

For some time now the Forum option has not been one of the resources offered 
on the RAC Project Application Form and the committee decided to formalize 
this with a vote. A motion to no longer offer Forums of the type currently 
available on the DCN server was moved by Alan Brattesani and seconded by 
Alan Bodenhorn.  The motion was approved by consensus.  Anne mentioned that 
the Web Team is considering the possibility of offering a Blog option as an 
alternative to the forum

4.  The committee discussed the status of the approximately 145 Mailman Lists 
currently set up for use by community and school groups.  About 20 of these 
have no members and most of the 20 are not in use (may never have been used.)  
An additional 8 have only one member.

It was agreed that Anne should send an email to the owners/managers of these 
lists to ask if there are plans for their use.  With no prospect of usefulness the 
Lists will be closed down.  On the other hand if there are still plans for usage, 
Anne will suggest attendance at a Mailman Class to brush up on skills and 
encourage List use.

We briefly discussed the committee's review of active web sites that have 
resulted from DCN support.  Several members had been reviewing but not all so 
we agreed that members should refer to Anne's email of July 7  which includes 
links to most reviewable sites.  Members will report verbally next month.

5.  Anne mentioned that it is likely that she will be having knee replacement 
surgery in September and in that case the committee will need a substitute chair 
for several months thereafter.

Adjourned at  8:10 p.m.
Next meeting: September 7, 2005