Davis Community Network Resource Allocation Committee Regular Meeting Oct. 5 2005 Meeting Notes Members present: Bodenhorn, Brattesani, Chiles, Evans, Hance (Chair); also Tsui Chang (Advisor) and Richard Lowenberg (Exec. Dir.) Members absent: Yamagata Visitors: Laurie and Russell Loving NOTE: When our visitors arrived they found the Training Room door locked but not properly closed and when they opened it all of the very loud alarms were set off. Luckily, Anne Hance arrived a few minutes later and re-set the alarm. A City IT person came over to investigate and planned to intercept the police when they arrived. 1. Call to order at 6:31 PM 2. Approved Agenda as distributed 3. Nonprofit Organization Project Reviews: a) We reviewed the request presented on behalf of "Military Families Speak Out: Capital Region" by Laurie and Russell Loving and approved the following resources for indefinite use without charge (moved by Alan Bodenhorn & seconded by Anne Evans): 1 email only account 1 Simple Site 2 Mailman Lists 1 Calendar Web Team help & Training The new group is associated (as a chapter) with a national MFSO organization. It is non profit but not currently registered as nonprofit charity with the California Secretary of State. b) and c) The two projects: The Homeopathic Alternative, and SoulCollage® Central submitted by Sue Volpi Gelber were not addressed because the applicant did not appear. However, the committee did express its thought that the projects look as if they might have a commercial connection. e) Review of the Ivy Town Neighborhood Assoc. issue was not necessary since the DCN Web Team had been able to remedy the situation by providing new passwords to the new project leaders. 4. We ratifiied the between-meetings approval of the following projects - moved by John Chiles and seconded by Alan Brattesani. a) Ratified approval of a Simple Site for Willett PTA requested by Susan Lovenburg on 9/16/05 for a student Publications Club b) Ratified approval of 2 Mailman Lists and a Calendar for Montgomery Elementary PTA requested by Lisa Nelson & Trish Bosco on 9/20/05 c) Ratified approval of a Mailman List for Explorit requested by Tabatha Bruce on 9/30/05 for Explorit's new building Exhibit Team 5. a) Anne Evans agreed to chair the November RAC meeting and possibly the December one also. Anne Hance will email her some templates to use in communications with applicants before and after the meeting(s); and with Omsoft and the Web Team with the information about resources approved. b) Richard passed on to the committee a suggestion from DCN Board member Robert Nickerson that when the RAC authorizes a group to use DCN resources we should encourage the applicants to let their group members know where the free resources came from. This might result in additional DCN accounts being purchased which would help improve DCN's finances. Adjourned at 7: 42 PM Next meeting Wednesday, November 2, 2005 Anne Hance