DCN INFORMATION PROVIDER COMMITTEE MEETING NOTES

[These are draft notes until approved at a subsequent IPC meeting.]

DATE: 05/06/98
TIME: 6:15 - 7:30 PM
LOCATION: City of Davis Computer Lab, 600 A Street.

MEMBERS PRESENT:  Jason Coffer, Graham Freeman, Anne Hance (Chair),
                  Paul Healey, Steve McMahon, John Movius, Kari Peterson,
                  Richard Yamagata.

VISITORS:         John Batchelder, John Chiles

NOTE TAKER: Paul Healey

A  Approval of Agenda

   Approved.

B. Housekeeping -- Approve notes of 04/01/98 meeting

   Approval was postponed until the next meeting because of corrections to
   be made.

C. Business

   1. New Projects -- Vicki Suter on cooperative involvement of IPC
      with the CPB project

      Vicki was not available for this meeting, but will post her
      discussion/proposal.

   2. IPC membership procedures

      Current membership procedures were included with the agenda for this
      meeting.  One addition (h) was made:  "Prospective members are
      encouraged to attend an IPC meeting before applying."

   3. How are Board or Executive Committee discussions and actions
      communicated?

      Anne Hance provided a summary of the current procedures with the
      agenda.  Paul Healey pointed out that the bylaws used as a source
      are currently under revision, and it was agreed that he would serve
      as the IPC point of input for bylaws suggestions.  The Brown Act
      question remains unclarified.

D. Content Review -- Continued discussion of online forums.

      No issues raised.

E. Reports

   1. Projects [moved up from 4]

      Anne Hance noted that the nominal limit to disk storage allocation
      for IPC projects is 250 MB, and that we are currently quite a bit
      below that.  It was agreed that the IPC could, at its discretion,
      increase the storage for individual projects beyond the usual 5 MB,
      as long at there was no serious contention for storage overall.  It
      would be understood that in these special cases the extra
      allocations would be reviewed given a sudden crunch.

      YoloLink -- The miniproject was granted an extra 15 MB of web space
      (making a total of 20 MB) until 9/30/98. By that time a
      determination should be made as to where the YoloLink files will
      eventually reside.  Steve McMahon will work on this.

      Chateau Lane (Neighborhood Lists) -- This project appears to be
      defunct, but John Movius will review the situation with Jan Troost.

      Davis Youth Soccer League -- The Webteam helped start the project.
      No new status, but it needs investigation.

      Printed Matter -- A request for an additional 5 MB was tentatively
      approved under a "flexible while rich" policy, but reservations
      about recently-added commercial content were expressed.  Richard
      Yamagata agreed to discuss the matter with Elisabeth Sherwin and
      post comments to the list.

      Birch Lane School -- Jason Coffer proposed that this project, and
      projects generally, should not have indefinite standing, but should
      be reviewed periodically.  The Birch Lane has apparently been
      successful (featured in State Library Report), but the IPC does not
      know whether they still require their modems.  The Committee agreed
      that projects should be approved at least annually, and that the
      Birch Lane and Printed Matter projects should be reviewed with a
      view to determining a date when they would be due for possible
      renewal.  Anne H. will contact Alan Brattesani concerning Birch
      Lane, and Richard Yamagata will inquire about Printed Matter.

      As part of the general discussion of projects, Anne Hance agreed to
      make a version of the IPC flyer for presentation on the Web.

      Explorit -- Requested 5 MB additional storage and a one-year
      extension, which were approved.  Since Anne Hance is the Explorit
      project leader, Jason Coffer chaired the discussion and resolution.

      Additional subject, remote administration of email lists by
      non-subscribers.  Richard Yamagata will investigate concerns about
      this and post his findings to the IPC list.

F. Potential New Members -- none proposed.

G. The meeting adjourned at approximately 7:30 p.m.