Minutes June 2005

15th June

Present:

Kylie Davies, John Simpson, Con Validas, Owen Courtis, Rob Brittain, Norm Atkins and Jan Smith

Apologies:

Julian Goodwin, Tony Calenti and Vic Koci

Business:

1. Welcome from Kylie Davies meeting Chair

2. Minutes of previous meeting 12^th April not confirmed held over to next meeting.

3. Matters arising:

3.1 DGR. No progress as yet Jan to seek contact details for helpful lawyer from Con or Kylie.

3.2 Surplus Shop and Ebay seller policy docs in progress.

3.3 Garage Sale. It was decided no storage problems at the moment and shop is dealing with surplus items. To be revisited if a need arises.

3.4 Awareness documentation, business cards and new CB logo. Postponed until new logos become available for consideration.

3.5. Trivia night. Jodie working on some ideas. Discussed possibility of running a night with the Open Source Conference if happening at Monash this year. Other possibilities running a trivia night at La Porcetta Or Mi Casa in Franklin St. Jan and Kylie to investigate Mi Casa.

3.6 Encouragements to increase financial memberships. (see discussion under 4.2)

3.7 Sponsorship of WFD for Altona. No progress as yet expecting an indication in the next week.

3.8 Opening/Training Roster. Jodie Thursday, no one on reception Friday, Kylie and Jan Saturdays.

3.9 WFD Supervisor. John Simpson fills in when an extra person is needed.

3.10 Operational Groups
Operational groups to put their reports in the wiki and to organise their own meetings.

4. Agenda

4.1 Accounting. Proposal from Kylie to add Norm Atkins as signatory to the Computerbank accounts. This was agreed to by the committee

4.2 Computerbank Membership. Proposal to have two fee categories, ie waged/concession reassessed.
Proposal to increase the waged fees to $33 for full membership, concession membership to remain at $13.20. Proposed Jan, Seconded Kylie, Passed

Proposal to increase associate non voting membership to $22 and to leave concession associate at $5.50 Proposed Jan, Seconded Kylie, Passed

4.3 Proposal from Kylie for Computerbank to become a LPI exam testing centre. Pia Waugh, Linux Australia vice President and LPI Proctor has advised that she could come and help proctor Kylie so Kylie could proctor others. We would need to promote exams held at Computerbank, as well as to set up a testing centre. Background http://www.openeducation.org.ua/wiki/index.php/LPI_in_Australia
Passed.

4.4 Contract work allocation at Computerbank and the formation of a Contractors list. Discussion as Computerbank is offered more contract work how best to allocate this work. People eligible should be financial members, have demonstrated experience at Computerbank. Contract jobs to be announced to the list.

4.5 Request for help from another nabuur.org village, this time helping a village in Kenya. Kylie to provide a quote for shipping but advise the group our focus is on building computers not providing means for transportation.

5. Reports - Receiving reports from each group before the meeting really helped focus and shorten this meeting. Well done everyone.

State Coordinators Report – Kylie

Projects report – Rob

Network report - Julian

Database report - Owen
Coding report - Owen

Documentation and Web Sites Report – Jan

Technical coordinator’s report – Con

User Support – John