MEETING NOTES
	EVENT:  IPC Regular Monthly Meeting
	DATE:    Wednesday, April 7, 1999
	TIME:     6:30 - 7:45 pm
	PLACE:  City of Davis Computer Lab, 600 A Street

IPC Members: 
Attending: John Batchelder, Alan Brattesani, John Chiles, Anne Hance, 
Susan Martindill, 
Absent:  Jason Coffer, Ed Henn, Richard Yamagata, Wendy Yoder
Ex officio:   Richard Lowenberg


Business

The Committee approved the CREEC proposal from Yolo Basin Foundation 
presented by Cheryl Chipman and Judy Fleenor. The project was approved 
to extend May 1, 1999 through April 30, 2000. Resources awarded were 
One dial-up account, two Listservs, and Web Team assistance.

Discussion

1)  We briefly discussed the DCN Board's charge that we develop 
philosophy, policies, criteria and procedures for Long Term Projects. 
Richard suggested that long term projects with groups can be partnerships 
negotiated in a manner similar to the MOU's that DCN has with its major 
partners. A different approach would probably be needed for individuals 
who are providing valuable content such as Printed Matter and Davis Picture 
of the Day.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS AGREED TO ponder the possibilities and 
implications of this Board charge in preparation for outcome oriented 
discussion next month.

2)  We talked about the IPC's role in helping to develop DCN Web content 
and Anne shared the list of content priorities developed by the IPC several 
years ago:

Priority A.	City services and information, access to City staff
		Business applications
		Access to City elected officials
		K-12 Education

Priority B.	County Government
		State government
		Healthcare
		Public Library
		Media
		Social Service nonprofits

Priority C.	Community College students
		Agriculture
		Housing
		Environmental nonprofits
		General Public (non specific)
		University
		Federal government applications

[see NOTES below which includes additional information not shared at the 
meeting]

WE AGREED THAT EACH COMMITTEE MEMBER would, to the extent 
possible before the May 5 
meeting, take some time to browse the DCN web site in order to:
	a) become familiar with the content
	b) critique the content (constructively)
	c) take note of apparent ommissions of content
	d) consider the ease (or not) of navigating when one is looking for 
specific information.
Alan said he would look particularly at the K-12 content areas.

There was some discussion about how content is included in the DCN web 
and Richard pointed out that DCN is a partnership oriented organization and 
does not need to be the developer of all of the content that is suggested by 
the list of priorities (above). The site should provide ACCESS to 
information of value and interest to the community and this will quite often 
mean pointing to sites/information developed by our partners and others.

Richard mentioned that he and Adam Vogt are developing a web page listing 
regional resources and the IPC should review this page as we continue our 
discussions of desired useful/interesting DCN web content/web links.

Our disussions at future IPC meetings will need to focus on what 
information people in our regional community are likely to look to discover 
on our web site and in what form such information would be most useful.


Adjournment was at 7:45pm but several independent small group 
discussions happened after the meeting.


** NEXT MEETING - May 5, 1999 **

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NOTES:
At the time when the content priorities were last discussed by the IPC 
(9/1996) the following was also noted:

"There was general agreement that the web should represent the community, 
and the Committee should concentrate on underrepresented areas and local 
content and applications; further, that the Committee should work according 
to an overall goal that content be local and dynamic. In particular it was 
suggested that the Committee sponsor development of information and 
services that aren't going to develop in the private sector on their own. 
There was strong support for focusing on community organizations as an 
important target population.

"Others suggested that DCN may have a role in providing public education 
on information technology issues (places to go to find out what's going 
on)."