DCN INFORMATION PROVIDER COMMITTEE MEETING NOTES

[These notes are considered drafts until approved at the subsequent IPC
 meeting.]

DATE: 6/4/97
TIME: 6:15 - 8:30 pm
LOCATION: City Lab

ATTENDEES: John Batchelder (visiting), Jason Coffer, John Costantino
           (proposing mini-project), Anne Hance, Paul Healey, Esther
           Polito, Christian Sandvig.

NOTETAKER: Paul Healey


AGENDA ITEMS

A.  The agenda was approved.

B.  John Costantino's "Spare the Air Days" mini-project proposal, auto-
    matic email notification of degraded air quality.  Resources re-
    quested of DCN were two mailing lists and informal assistance from
    the webteam, which John will be joining.  DCN asked that its parti-
    cipation be acknowledged on the email messages.  Part of the project
    is a periodic report on effectiveness in reducing the factors contri-
    buting to degraded air quality.  It was recognized that the experi-
    ment would not be well-controlled, since subscribers to the notifi-
    cation system could be presumed to be air-quality conscious.  Project
    approved, with Steve McMahon as liaison.

C.  HOUSEKEEPING  Tabled.

D.  ACTION ITEMS

1.  Richard Yamagata's request to keep Steve Brown on the IPC list was
    approved, based on Steve's activities as education liaison.

2.  The revised guidelines for links from DCN pages were approved with
    slight modifications.  Paul Healey was to merge the guidelines with
    the Web Author's FAQ.  (That idea has since been dropped, assuming no
    objections from the committee, as impractical.)

3.  The regular agenda item "Content Review", proposed by Anne Hance, was
    approved.  Anne described the process.

4.  Paul Healey's proposal to publish the list of DCN volunteers was
    approved, with the modification that the list would be maintained by
    volunteer volunteer coordinator with the attributes permanent,
    historical and all-inclusive.

5.  Draft statement describing IPC membership profile.  Approved, with
    the following modifications:  In the fourth item, add "cultural" to
    the list of city and regional aspects; in the last item, change "law"
    to "issues", so people won't get uptight.

6.  Draft statement describing the role(s) of the IPC.  A proposal to add
    "grant marketing" as a principal function was tabled due to Vicki
    Suter's absence.  In the second paragraph, the list of community needs
    was deleted in favor of language such as "taking into consideration
    DCN goals, grants, etc".

7.  Draft statement on membership and operations.  Tabled, with an expecta-
    tion of discussion by email.

E.  REPORTS

1.  Board meeting highlights.  Anne reported, noting principally the
    reelection of the current officers.

2.  Web Team.  Steve McMahon noted discussion of membership rules and
    project coordination as the principal activities for the period.

3.  Projects.  YBF -- Paul Healey reported that the project was stalled
    temporarily due to illness of the YBF team leader.  Hattie Weber
    Museum -- Esther Polito noted that work is proceeding.

4.  Content Policy Subcommittee.  Christian Sandvig invited all IPC mem-
    bers to join the subcommittee's discussion.  Christian's project web
    page will be mounted, but its URL will be known only to the elect.

5.  Review of grant projects as sponsored projects.  Tabled.

F.  OTHER BUSINESS  None.