Vancouver Community Network Association
Minutes of Board Meeting
March 19, 1996

Present:        Margaret Coates (Chair), Larry Kuehn (Secretary), Ross
Penner, Lorne Gray, George Lindholm, Godwin Chan, Stephanie Fletcher,
Andrey Federoff, Vic Vaivads, Neil K. Guy, Greg Sturk.

Absent: Penny Goldsmith, Jennifer Higgins-Ingham, Nicholas Fong.

1.      The meeting was called to order at 7:05.

2.      M/S/C.  That the agenda be adopted.

3.      Board membership.

        It was reported that Kathy Fournier had resigned as member-at-large.

        M/S/C.  That Neil K. Guy be appointed as vice-president.

        M/S/C.  That Vic Vaivads be appointed as Chair of Systems Design.

        M/S/C.  That Greg Sturk be appointed as a member-at-large.

4.      M/S/C.  That the minutes of the February 27, 1996 meeting be approved.

5.      Business arising from the minutes.

Peter Royce is working on the IP kit and it should be ready by the end of
March.  The site move to the VPL has been approved and meetings to plan are
scheduled.   The objective is to have the move completed by April 24.

The committee dealing with the site relocation will be meeting on March 20,
and will report to the board.

The letter nominating Neil K. Guy, Brian Campbell, and Margaret Coates for
the Electronic Highway Accord committee has been submitted to the Chief
Information Officer's office.

Stephanie reported on the meeting of the B.C. Coalition for Information
Access.  The main item dealt with hearings before the CRTC on phone access
by low income people.

6.      New business.

Assignment of lines at the new site.

M/S/C   That the line configuration be 3 for people maintaining
non-personal information on the system, 3 for public access, 1 for
administration and the remainder for general access.

Online Education Society.  Peter Royce has prepared the paperwork for
creating the Online Education Society, which will be a non-profit society
to run training on computer communications.

Power Up Conference.  VCN will have a table at the Power Up Conference in
early June.

BC Freenet Association made a proposal to the IATO for a $70,000 grant to
assist in developing community networks.  VCN will put in a proposal to
carry out a portion of the project.

A membership fee structure proposal was brought forward for discussion.  A
number of issues and questions about different options were discussed, and
a report and recommendations will be brought to the April meeting after the
Equal Access Committee has considered the issues, compatability with
library policies is checked and more research is carried out.

7.      Next meeting.

The next meeting will be on April 16 at 7 p.m. at 411 Dunsmuir.