Chebucto Community Net Board Meeting July 9,1996 Present: David Trueman, Hugh Wright, Joan Macintosh, Ben Armstrong, Bernie Hart, Joe Baker, Rob Currie, Jan Fullerton, Joan Brown Hicks The agenda was approved. Finances: David reported on the finances. David Towers, Carol and David Trueman met to transfer all the finances over to Carol. David Towers will still act as consultant. Payroll for the summer has been sorted out. Conservative projection until the end of August is $9,000. Our regular monthly expenses are about $6000. The membership renewal notices are being effective. ISP Connection contract: David is working on this. Discussion is reported on line. Atlantic Connect has not yet responded. Newsletter: A volunteer coordinator is needed. A request has gone out on "ccn-volunteers".Rob will ask Paul Halpern. On-line Boutique: Plans are to survey members about what we can sell and at what price. Joe is looking after this. Quick Start Guide: Joe is coordinating this. Telecommunities 96: Bernie is in touch with their committee. He has made arrangements to get tourist information to bring to the conference to promote next year's conference in Halifax. Bernie has a draft brochure to get designed and printed. Joan BH will look after getting this done. Plans are to have a TC 97 and C- Suite Booth at the conference. This will require staffing. If the C-Suite money comes in time, that can help with the costs. NSFCN will pay for half of Bernie's ticket. David Murdock is able to attend. It was moved by David and seconded by Ben that David Murdock's expenses be paid by Chebucto. Motion carried. IP Committee: Ben reported that we need to do something with all the outstanding applications. The IP committee has developed a new graphical page. The committee is trying to get some money from the wealthier Ips to support Chebucto. Bernie will look through the list to help identify possible groups. Promotional brochures could be developed to show the advantages to Ips to being on Chebucto as well as showing what Ips could do for Chebucto- this could be a check list with options. Ben will look into this. Joan BH offered to help once the draft copy is pulled together. Ben and his committee will also look at a customized IP agreement. User Agreement: Hugh proposed some new changes to the user agreement. These changes were agreed to at a previous board meeting. Jan moved and Rob seconded that these changes be accepted. Motion carried. David will get the new agreement on line. Hugh will do up a notice to the members to put out under Joan's name. JoanM will respond to members' responses. Summer student: David reported that Landon Boyd's activities have been excellent. Landon provided an on-line report to the board. Technical Report: David reported that C- Suite has been installed on Yarmouth's community net. There is still some educational work to do there. Owen sound is sending their server to have C-Suite installed. Windsor virtual net had an official opening for their net. Their official name is the Windsor East Hant's Community Net. Truro now has an official board and they are planning on also using C-Suite using the Yarmouth model. The commercial policy needs to be resolved and then the disc quota space can be worked on. WINS funding: Chebucto can claim $2500 for office /space rent. It was moved by David and seconded by Ben that Chebucto act as the sponsoring site for David Murdock. Motion carried. Board membership: Peter Henry has resigned from the board due to work commitments. A motion of thanks for his important contribution was sent on behalf of the board by Joan. CCN Brochures: We need to get more brochures printed. JoanBH will look after this. Volunteer Committee: Gerard has offered to provide technical to a volunteer committee when it gets established. Next Meeting: July 16 at 7 pm at 599 Tower Road ( David's home)