CORRECTIONS / ADDITIONS / ETC. .... gladly considered before September 24 '97 (mail to rahance@dcn.davis.ca.us) These are also posted for your convenience on the IPC Web site at http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~rahance/IPC/minutes/090397.txt ---------------------------------------------------------------- DCN INFORMATION PROVIDER COMMITTEE MEETING NOTES (These are draft notes until approved at a subsequent IPC meeting) DATE: 9/3/97 TIME: 6:15 - 7:30 pm LOCATION: City of Davis Computer Lab, 600 A Street ATTENDEES: Jason Coffer, Anne Hance, Steve McMahon, John Movius, Vicki Suter, Richard Yamagata Jon Batchelder (visiting), Richard Lowenberg (briefly) NOTETAKER: Anne Hance (By default since everyone else refused!!!) A. Approval of agenda The agenda was approved with the following request: Steve asked that item D2 be tabled since in Paul Healey's absence crucial aspects of the discussion would be missing. B. 1. Fall '97 Voter Information Project: Steve proposed that DCN provide for the upcoming Fall local elections (Davis Joint Unified School Board election, the Park Preservation Tax and a school bond measure).the kind of voter information pages it has done for recent elections. The committee encouraged Steve to follow up on this proposal by recruiting some interested volunteers and developing content similar to previous elections without duplicating DVM election content. Creation of new ways of presenting material was not ruled out so long as it was complementary and not competitive content. 2. Christian's Web Publishing Pages: The Committee approved issuance of a non-dialup account to Christian Sandvig continuing his existing login in order for him to maintain these pages while attending graduate school. Steve agreed to discuss with Christian the question of copyright on the pages and the committee suggested that a joint copyright might be appropriate if Christian will agree to this. 3. The Davis Virtual Novel. The committee agreed to host the Davis Virtual Novel as an aspect of the Davis Arts Online project using space on DCN in the Executive Director's site. It was agreed that the Web Team would provide technical support for the project and that if at some time in the future it appeared that this would be more appropriately handled by DVM such a suggestion would be brought to the IPC for discussion. C. Housekeeping Notes for the 8/6/97 meeting were approved with the addition of John Movius as an attendee. D. Content Review: 1. DCN News Groups - Steve explained that UCD has agreed to make Davis Newsgroups available on a limited basis to the CWNet server. They will be available to DCN subscribers and to UCD but not generally distributed throughout Usenet. The technical aspect of making this happen is the responsibility of CWNet. If progress is too slow or if it transpires that this strategy does not work well, DCN will need to develop an alternative. 2. The discussion of software development to enable DCN to web-publish accurate and timely local-campaign financing data was tabled at Steve's request pending Paul's availability for the discussion. E. Reports 1. DCN Board Meeting Highlights: The committee discussed concerns pertaining to the transition to CWNet and the Board's attention to the issues. It was explained that current problems with very slow connections had two causes: Some problems with the T1 line (to be solved by CWNet and PacBell); and trunk line problems that are clearly PacBell's responsibility. 2. Web Team : The Web Team continues working on a multitude of projects. 3. Update on progress being made by AHCCP (IPC SubCommittee - "Content Policy Adhoc Committee"; aka - "Ad Hoc Committee on Content Policies") It was announced that Board President Kari Peterson has agreed to serve as facilitator following Christian Sandvig's departure. The subcommittee has reached the stage at which policy statements are being developed (following the earlier stage of information gathering and free-for-all discussion.) The IPC asked Steve and Jason to convey the message that as each policy statement reaches a level of refinement that allows for wider distribution it be circulated to IPC members in an appropriate fashion (this could be via e-mail or private Web files). 4. Projects: Yolo Basin Foundation - Paul had no information of progress to report Hattie Weber Museum - John reported that pages that he was helping with were ready for review by John Chiles Spare the Air Days - Steve suggested that it might be necessary to allow an extension of this project next year since it was getting a rather slow start. Delphi Project - Vicki reported that she was following up with her responsibility which is to assist with the davis delphi including recruit ment of Davis teachers for the group. 5. Past Project evaluations - email survey of project leaders. The committee agreed that a survey would be useful. Richard Lowenberg agreed to consider whether he would like to add a question for his own information. Project leaders will be asked to give brief answers - but more than yes or no!. The following questions were approved: * In your opinion, in what ways was the project a success? * What was achieved? * Would the same things have been accomplished without DCN sponsorship? * Does what was achieved still exist? In what form and where? * How could the IPC project process have been improved from your point of view? F. 1. The following statement concerning IPC membership was affirmed by consensus excluding item c. which was tabled because the Chair had promised Paul not to discuss it in his absence. a. The IPC should have a minimum of 5 and no more than 15 members. b. Prospective members may be self-nominated or may be proposed by any DCN Board or committee member or by DCN staff. Such nominees for IPC membership will be approved by the IPC at a regular committee meeting. c. The Board is asked to ratify Committee membership from time to time as new members join the committee. d. To retain membership-in-good-standing committee members must avoid having two consecutive absences. e. To regain membership-in-good-standing a committee member must attend two consecutive meetings and will regain standing at the second of these. f. One or more members of the Web Team should be members of the IPC. Web Team members are encouraged to attend IPC meetings. g. Visitors are welcome to attend regular monthly meetings. The discussion of the statement concerning IPC decision making was tabled for discussion at the next meeting. However, some comments were offered and these will be included with the supporting information for next month's meeting. 2. Review of existing grant projects as Sponsored Projects - Vicki reported that the CPB grant text is on the DCN web at http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/cpb96 G. Other Business or Comments. The chair informed the committee that the Fall Call for Sponsored Projects (** Deadline September 29, 5pm**) had been announced in the Davis Enterprise and had been spotlighted on the DCN Homepage. H. Adjournment at 7:50pm