Chebucto Community Net Board Meeting
June 18, 1996

Present: David Trueman, Joan Macintosh, Joan Brown Hicks, John Van Gurp, 
Doug Rigby,
Rob Currie, Ben Armstrong,  Joe Baker, Bernie Hart

John Van Gurp was welcomed to the board as a new member.
The agenda was approved. David moved and Rob seconded that the minutes of 
the June 4th meeting be approved. Motion carried.
David reported that since the new membership policy was instituted the 
end of May, over $4000 has come in as revenue. Uniform Atlantic has also 
donated $848.

Commercial Policy: As a fundraising mechanism, CCN is interested in 
selling sponsorship of generic CCN pages as well as allowing Ips to sell 
sponsorship for their pages by sharing the revenue with CCN. Doug moved 
and Rob seconded that we approve in principle the draft policy on the 
promotion of products and services on CCN. Motion carried. Ben will post 
this information to CCN-IP , CCN-PIC, with cc to CCN-board for feed back. 
Following this discussion, the notice will go out to all members for a 
membership meeting, tentatively scheduled for July 9th.

Proposal from Tony C. - It was agreed that the  concept of providing 
membership, start up support to new users through a company selling used 
computers is a good idea. Tony will be asked to develop a team, 
incorporate the planned user guide  as well as write up the public 
presentation for the board's approval. Joe will be in touch with Tony 
about the User Guide. Joan M will contact Tony.

Internet Awards: David will send out a message to all users to " go vote".

Negotiation re new Internet provider contract: David, Rob, Hugh will be 
on the committee. Renee Davis and David Potter will be asked to help. 
David will ask them. 

IP advanced training: Rob will put out a call to the IP committee for 
help to do this.

The volunteers list name needs to be changed to CCN-volunteers. David 
will do this.

Summer plans:

 David will speak to Blaine about summer holidays. He will be offered two 
weeks holidays or the 4% vacation pay.
It was agreed that we will continue on with our regular meetings every 
two weeks throughout the summer.
Brandon Boyd has been hired as a summer student David Murdock is over 
seeing this project.

The Halifax Regional Library has a summer student looking at access to 
government information. Joan BH will put Catherine Collins (student) in 
touch with Ben and Doug.

NSFCN - The idea is for NSFCN to be a federation of community nets. That 
way any members attending would be representatives of their individual 
community nets with one vote per one community net. This issue will be 
coming up at the next meeting on June 22. 

Industry Canada proposal for the development of C-Suite: David has sent 
the proposal to Doug Hull at Industry Canada. 

HRDC has their information on CCN. Bernie will write them a letter 
encouraging them to keep their information on CCN. 

Technical Committee: Alpha 4, the newest version of C-Suite has just been 
made available to community nets. Windsor, Truro, and  Yarmouth are 
benefiting from this now. Toronto has asked for an install as well.

Word on the Street: This is taking place on the last Sunday of September. 
WOTS is trying to arrange sponsorship of the costs for a booth and hook 
up for CCN to have a booth. Joan BH will keep the board informed.

CBC tape: Bernie will try to get a copy from Provincial  Media Services 
of the Chebucto program on First Edition

Next meeting : July 2, 7 pm - tentatively at Alderney Gate Library