Chebucto Community Net Board Meeting
April 23,1996
Dartmouth Library
Present:
Joan Brown Hicks, David Trueman, Joan Macintosh, Bernie Hart, Sharon 
MacDonald, Rob Currie, Jan Fullerton, Ben Armstrong , Joe Baker, Peter Henry

Regrets: Carol Compton Smith

Financial:
Carol sent information re the signing of forms at the Bank of Montreal. 
David, Joan M and Joan BH and Carol need to go to the Main Branch on 
George St. to sign forms. Our contact at the Bank is Michael Hatfield.

Go party
Joe has received a lot of support for donations, etc but is concerned 
about the ticket sales. Susan Newhook from CBC First Edition is covering 
Chebucto and will be covering the party but this pr will be on after the 
party.
We had a modem donated for the winner of the most tickets sales. This 
could be used to raise money with tickets. Free tickets have been given 
to performers and sponsors.

Outreach to other Community Nets:
 The New Glasgow Band that is coming is trying to set up a community net. 
Bernie and Joe and going to New Glasgow to meet with those interested. 
Windsor has had training session and Jan has been support to them. David 
did a demo in Truro and will be going to Yarmouth later in May. David 
Murdock has been helping with much of this outreach.
Groups using Csuite have been asked to acknowledge Chebucto. Rob and 
Peter will work on a method for doing this.

Policy Information Committee:
Peter, Joan M and Hugh met to discuss some current issues. It was 
stressed that issues need to be dealt with quickly.The committee needs to 
develop policies and procedures to deal with situations. We have a 
present dilemma in that the new User Agreement is not on line yet and 
policy is being implemented according to the new user agreement. We also 
need to add information re banning mass postings to multiple newsgroups, 
commercial postings to 
non-commercial venues, and chain letters. Hugh is being asked to do this. 
Rob will also write a charter for ccn newsgroups.

Commercial Policy
The commercial policy that was discussed at a previous board meeting 
needs to be written up.
( on former "do to " list)
We have had an offer to allow a commercial page link from  CCN which 
would pay CCN per connection to the commercial site.It was agreed that we 
would allow this as a pilot for a limited time period. Joan will inform 
the company of our proposal. This could fit into a fundraising plan.


PAT Committee:
It was moved by Bernie Hart and seconded by Joe Baker that Doug Rigby be 
chair of the PAT Committee and be asked to join the board. Motion carried.
PAT Outreach -David suggested that David Murdock pursue funding to set up 
PATs in the outlying areas in the Halifax Regional Municipality. Bernie 
will call a meeting of Doug, David Murdock, Joan BH (and maybe someone 
else from the Library) to look into this idea.

Rob has suggested training sessions for Ips that will have more extensive 
skills than the first level training. This will also be an opportunity to 
raise some money but the purpose is to provide the training. He suggested 
two sessions simultaneously with 20-40 people. Jan and Bernie offered to 
help.  

IP Report:
The IP Agreement is being re-written to stress partnership of the IP with 
CCN. David suggested that the IP agreement needs to be renewed annually. 
A letter could go out  that gives examples of how some IPs support CCN. 
Hugh should look at this before it is finalized. 

Volunteer List: Sharon will be the moderator. Joe and Carol will be 
working on it as well. A "How -To" is going to be set up.The Technical 
Committee is looking after this. 

We need a policy on administration of mailing lists. This could include a 
charter .Joan will post some guidelines on line for discussion that will 
then go to the PIC committee.

Next meeting:  Tuesday 7pm , May 7th at the Alderney Gate Library.