November Cai-Vic Minutes 2002
Minutes of CAI Victorian Branch Meeting
Held at 92 Rosslyn Street on 20 November 2002
Present were: Owen Courtis, Con Validas, Kylie Davies, Grant Diffey, Steve Paynter, Penni
Diffey, Rob Britain (part-meeting), David Hatton, Vic Koci, Reuben Matene
(part-meeting)
Note Taker: Con Validas
Meeting opened at 6.40pm.
Consensus was reached regarding minutes of previous meeting being correct.
Actions Arising
Lease renewal negotiations feedback
The landlord has decided to increase the rent on the premises to $2,000 PCM.
This is a 3% increase on the current rent. The term offered is 1 year with
re-negotiation for a following year.
The committee group was asked to research alternate premises (in the
north-west suburbs of Melbourne) as the consensus was that the increase in
rent cannot be afforded by CAI-Vic.
Penni will post the appropriate suburbs to the CAI-Vic mailing list.
Issues to consider regarding new premises are security deposit required,
transport/parking facilities, OHS considerations, transfer of ADSL to new
address, size of building in excess of 500 square metres.
The Real Estate Institute of Victoria (REIV) requires personal guarantors
according to the estate agent we are dealing with (this is WB Simpson). This
is another issue as we need guarantors when we sign a new lease.
Our current lease at Rosslyn St. ends on 5 December 2002.
A 'moving' meeting to be held at CAI-Vic has been scheduled for Tuesday 26
December 2002 at 2.00pm.
Roster to list
Kylie to revise.
Dave Fregon's availability has changed.
Kylie to post to mailing list.
Database Development
Still pending.
Grant to look at Siela's brief.
Show Me How Day
Kylie has been running these sessions. They have been successful and the
recipient waiting list has been reduced as a result.
State Co-ordinator's Report
Autism Conference network was deployed and it was a success.
Geraldine from the Autism Conference sent Kylie an e-mail about the great job
that was done by CAI-Vic. Rob B took photos of the network and the users.
Finanial Report
CAI-Vic has $23,000.00 in the bank at the moment. WFD funds will arrive in
December.
WFD Report
Donations have been coming in from various sources. Monitor testing is being
done by the WFD participants.
Kylie has sent the WFD Award application to Canberra. Thanks go to Vic Koci
and Outreach for their letters of support re the WFD Award application.
Kangan will provide CAI-Vic with a WFD sign.
Training Report
There are approx. 50 outstanding applicants on the waiting list.
Penni proposed a step-by-step do-it-yourself Training Manual for recipients
as an alternative to the existing training model used by CAI-Vic.
Grant suggested more references to online/system documentation within the
Training Manual.
Technical Report
ADSL modem is not working at the moment, Grant to talk to D-LInk about
resolving this issue.
Open-source policy needs to be enforced. Grant to deal with this.
Intranet/Documentation Report
Documentation Meeting feedback:
Style Guide for writers/editors to be drafted by Kylie. This style guide will
be enforced for documentation produced by CAI-Vic.
Writers to submit articles in text format. These will be sent to an editor
via e-mail.
Editors will comprise of:
Content Editors
Punctuation/grammatical editors.
Dave Fregon has posted details re new Computerbank web site on the mailing
list. He has created it in Zope and it looks great. A prototype (this is a
work in progress) can be found at http://axxs.org/computerbank/ It is
envisaged that the documentation editing process will be handled through
Zope's web interface.
Network Builds
Autism Conference completed.
Menieres Group network build has issues, name resolution being one of them.
Grant looking at this.
Healsville build still pending.
CAI AGM
To be held on irc (#cbmeta) on Sunday 24 November 2002. Proxies close on
Thursday 21 November 2002.
Other Business
Linux User's Victoria (LUV) has received 2 machines from CAI-Vic without
completing application forms. Penni to take application forms to LUV on
Saturday. We need to know the status on these machines ASAP.
Errol is taking a Hardware class on 26 November 2002. Thanks go to Errol for
his efforts on the Hardware Guide. Kylie to talk to Errol about posting a
text version of the guide on the CAI-Vic mailing list.
END OF MEETING: 8.30pm
