Vancouver CommunityNet
                                Board Meeting
                              October 14, 1997

Present:  Penny Goldsmith, Larry Kuehn, Jack Vickery, Ryan Hung, Katharine
Shipley, Greg Sturk, Carolyn Saunders, Neil K. Guy.

1.      Adoption of agenda.

M/S/C           That the agenda be adopted.

2.      Adoption of minutes.

M/S/C           That the minutes of September 16, 1997, be adopted.

3.      Office report.

Several grant applications have gone in.  The multi-culturalism project
will get under way within the next few weeks.  Phone line sponsorship is
now set up.

M/S/C           That the CommunityNet pay Peter Royce for the week that he
was away sick.

4.      Committee reports.

a)  The fundraising committee is pursuing several projects and grants.

b)  M/S/C       That up to $2000 be approved for purchase of a hard drive
if the current drive fails.

5.      Compaint from a VCN user about hate mail.

A VCN member has complained that a person is posting to newsgroups, using a
VCN email account, messages containing racist information and giving links
to the Heritage Front web site.

M/S/C   That the VCN does not approve or condone the posting of hate
literature or links to web sites with hate literature and will not tolerate
the use of the system for those purposes; and that the VCN seek legal
advice on how to accomplish this end.
Carried unanimously.

6.      APEC People's Summit.

M/S/C           That the VCN approve participation with the Virtual Summit
project of the People's Summit on APEC '97, based on the proposal and
budget developed by Steven Chan.

7.      Annual General Meeting.

The Annual General Meeting will be held at 7 p.m. on November 12 at 411
Dunsmuir.

a)  The nominating committee asked for suggestions of names of people to
approach about being on the board of VCN.

b)  The speaker for the AGM will be Ellen Balka.

c)   M/S/C      That a special resolution be recommended to the AGM to
reduce the size of the board to no more than eleven and eliminate the
provisions that require chairs of committees to be members of the board.

8.      System administration.

It was agreed that we should explore hiring a consultant to upgrade the
news server out of the funding for a project.

9.      Next meeting.

The next board meeting will be on November 12 at 6 p.m. at 411 Dunsmuir.



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Research and Technology                 lkuehn@vcn.bc.ca
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