VANCOUVER REGIONAL FREENET ASSOCIATION
                          BOARD OF DIRECTORS
                          MINUTES OF MEETINGS
                             MAY 24, 1994
                       Vancouver Public Library

Present: Eric Yung, Steven Chan, Guy Thomas, Susan Pendakur, Margaret Coates,
         Tom Hansen, Eric Yung.

Absent: Fritz Radandt, Brian Campbell, Phil Lyons, Ann Doyle, Boodie Arnott,
        Jacqueline Van Dyk, Sharon Zaluski.

Guest: Vic Vaivads.

Meeting was called to order at 7:50pm.

It was agreed that quorum was not met and although reports were made, no
motions or actions were enacted.

1.0 Agenda

* No discussion, accepted in principle

2.0 Minutes of May 10:

* deferred to next Board meeting

3.0 Policy Issues:

3.1 Marketing Plan response: Margaret/Brian

* Margaret said this was not yet done, and that it was deferred to next
  meeting.

3.2 Volunteer's Manual: Sharon

* Sharon not present - deferred to next meeting.

3.3 Menu Design Guide: Steven

* deferred to next meeting

4.0 Committee Reports:

4.1 Hardware/Software: Mike

* a letter of resignation has been received from Mike.  We recognize it
  as his intent to resign.
* we need a full Hardware/Software meeting to replace Mike - Vic's election
  at a recent SysDesign meeting was deemed insufficient.
* Steven gave a status report on the Hardware/Software, while simultaneously
  asking for a clear division between the committees of Hardware/Software
  and System Design.

  * we have gotten 5 of the telephone lines working
  * public access sites to be dealt with in conjunction with Jacqueline
  * registration - we should proceed on existing procedure and Steven
    offers to help setup group to carry out this for public launch.
  * UBC service/site contract - some concerns were raised about the fees
    to UBC as we were originally told it would be a "free" site.
  * Brian and Tom to meet with UBC about the site contract in reference
    to the costs.
  * email is working and newsgroups are being worked on by Dennis 
Breckenridge

* a Hardware/Software meeting is scheduled for June 4th, time and place TBA.

4.2 System Design: Steven

* Steven stated his report was given under Hardware/Software

4.3 Fundraising: Margaret

* Real Estate Board has rejected our application
* Tom: BC 21 called and were walked-through the concept of the FreeNet etc.
* Margaret and Brian just came back with a meeting with the United Way.
* discussion of the membership "crunch" for launch.

* All other reports from committees were deferred.


5.0 Membership Coordinator's Report: Susan

* we have 33 new members, for a total of 349 members
* 40 more accounts have been processed for members - for a total of 200.
* volunteer for finding office space?
* some discussion was made about renewals of memberships.

10.0 Other business:

* discussion centred around when we could be up for public launch.  Some 
dates
  and concerns were raised and some dates proposed by various people around
  the table.

* Tom: get office space is a priority and June 15th launch
* Guy: ASAP
* Steven: June 21st
* Eric: June 15th.

The above of course is merely speculation and nothing was moved or passed.

Meeting was adjourned at 9:30pm.