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Metro Community Access Network Society Board of Directors Meeting August 25, 1994 Attending: Kevin Nugent, Bernie Hart, Peter Henry, Carlos Freitas, David Towers, David Trueman, Renee Davis, Joan Brown-Hicks, Laura Jantek. The agenda was approved by consensus. The to-do list was reviewed and revised. POTENTIAL DIRECTORS: Potential replacements for the vacant directors' positions were discussed. It was decided that T. Lamport would be asked if his work committments would keep him off of the board, If so then Hugh Wright will be asked to sit. Laura Jantek MOVED that the board accept Bernie Hart as a new director. Peter Henry SECONDED the motion. No dissenting votes were cast. Motion was carried. It was suggested that Kevin N. act as a liason between Telecommunities Canada and the Maritime freenets as well as the provincial umbrella group. STATUS REPORTS: David Trueman has asked Gerard McNeil to have a status report prepared regularly prior to board meetings. As of today there were 1391 registered users of CFN. David Trueman wants to know what members are not using the system, what % of users are members, and what members donate in excess of their membership fee. Gerard has been assembling volunteer teams. He reports that the board needs to improve communication with the CFN community. David Trueman suggested that a weekly column be written by board members. He will coordinate this effort. A MOTION was made by Peter Henry to authorize David Trueman to install a conduit for telephone lines at a cost to the society of up to $2000. David Towers SECONDED the motion. No dissenting votes were cast. Motion was carried. FALL LAUNCH: There was some discussion on the fall launch. There is a growing feeling that whatever happens in the fall will be something other than an OFFICIAL LAUNCH. Options were discussed. Bernie Hart pointed out that the bylaws dictate when the annual general meeting must take place. KN will check up on this. CONFLICT GUIDELINES: Carlos raised the subject of creating conflict of interest guidelines for board members. KN was given the task of talking to Hugh Wright about writing up guidelines. IP AGREEMENT: Carlos distributed the proposed new IP agreement. Issues raised included those of liability, censorship, etc. KN will raise the issue of potential censorship issues with the Telecommunities Canada Board. It was decided that the words 'illegal, offensive and defamatory' would be changed to include only "illegal and defamatory". The wording must be either "CFN" or "the CFN", not both. There will be some changes to the wording of the section concerning commercial use of CFN. REGISTRATION: David Trueman has improved the algorithm for filtering duplicate registrations. BYLAWS: Questions to be cleared up include, who resigns before the agm?, and what are the terms of directors? FALL TRAINING SESSIONS: The fall season makes booking difficult. We must begin to line up sites for demos and training sessions. G7: The last demo included a member of the city's G7 group. They are willing to set up an official G7 home page pending approval of the feds. David Trueman can set up any PAT with the G7 info as a home page. Next meeting is Thursday Sept. 8 @ Joans home. -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Kevin Alexander James Nugent, aa006@chebucto.ns.ca Board member, Metro [Halifax] Community Access Network Society. Board member, Telecommunaute's Canada/Telecommunities Canada. "Chebucto Free-Net, a new kind of community." +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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