November 16, 2004
DCN Board Meeting Notes November 2004
DCN Board
NOTES November 16, 2004 meeting
There was no quorum
There was no agenda approval
No actions were taken
Visitors:
Rhonda Wiedenbeck and Tina Nerat from the
Redwood Technology Consortium
Discussion of the Community Media Center and cable
franchise planning:
-Richard Lowenberg reported
he met with T. Ahad and will advocate that DCN
manage I-Net and a sum of money to be determined
by all parties
- wants to develop applications and training
- at the 2x2x2 meeting the above was not discussed
- discussed goals and objectives
-DJUSD presented a proposal for joint powers
(City, School district and DCTV)
- next meeting Nov 17 (2x2x2)
- a call for proosals has not yet been made
Committee report
-RAC met last week and considered 4 proposals
Alan Brattesani facilitated
-Tsui Chang gave a workshop for PTA newsletters
which was well-received and is a forum for sharing
-The calendar was discussed
- Steve said that the Yolo County Elections Office
used DSCN servers with no problems. "It has become
routine and expected that people will get election
returns from the web."
- Richard said that there will be a class this Thursday
on "Mailman."
-Richard, Jan and Tsui will meet Dec. 2 at DHS about
the teacher websites- class to be held after winter
break.
Report from visitors from Humbolt
- They have a grant for economic development
- they have an annual "tech expo"
- They have a volunteer board and are benchmarking
other groups in order to see how they can make a "better
electronic village."
-they are at a crossroads and will talk to Richard
-They are re-franchising cable and have discussed
with Motorola their "umbrella."
- There was discussion of where they'll go next.
The meeting was adjourned at 6:25 PM
The next meeting is to be decided by the executive committee.
respectfully submitted,
Jan Meizel