Vancouver Community Network Board Meeting Minutes - January 29, 2001 Minutes of the Regular Meeting of the Vancouver Community Network, Board of Directors, held on Monday, January 29, 2001 at 6:30 P.M. in the Boardroom, 411 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver, BC. Present: Veronica Aimone, Jason Currell, Alison Curtis, Michael Gurstein, Mary Hammond, Jonn Olldym, Jim Sayre, Sharlene Smith, Richard Songhurst, Greg Sturk Staff: Steven Chan, Peter Royce Absent: Lyle Gardiner, Suzanne Klinga, Sujay Nazareth, Alexandra Samuel Chair: Alison Curtis Secretary: Greg Sturk 1) Adoption of the Agenda, M/S/C. 2) Acceptance of minutes of December 12, 2000 M/S/C. 3) Announcements: a) Suzanne Klinga, has resigned from the Board, she will however continue to serve on the personnel committee. b) Alison will shortly meet with two possible candidates for the position of treasurer. 4) Staff Reports: a) Peter noted that he is just recently back from holidays and therefore has little to add from the previous December Board meeting. b) Steven asked the Board for permission to give Shell access to authorized individuals from the Vancouver Public Library citing their need to troubleshoot connectivity problems. Board agreed noting that access be given to individuals rather than to a group. Motion to limit shell accounts to individuals, M/S/C. The Board requests that an annual list of shell accounts and root access be submitted by the system administrator. 5) Project Up-dates: a) The Community Learning Networks project has been approved with March 1 as the start date. b) Michael recommended that the VCN enter the Stockholm challenge noting that most of the material needed would already be contained in our pages. Michael, Mary and Peter will work on a submission. c) The CN2002 conference will be in Montreal, where the city has established itself as a secretariat for non-profit groups. There are committees to be established and volunteers are welcome. d) Strategic Plan Up-date: Proposed that a brain storming session be held on March 24. We need very good ideas from a broad group of stakeholders to decide where the VCN should be going. There was a general discussion on the best means to involve members in the brain storming. A plan is to be circulated to the Board. e) Peter is to be on the evaluation committee for VolNet. 6) General discussion on groups that the VCN is involved with. There was agreement among Board members that the VCN should not host any group involved in spam nor groups providing misleading or false representation. 7)There was no other business. Adjourned at 8:40 P.M.