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Davis Community Network
Information Providers Committee
Regular Meeting  March 3, 2004
Meeting Notes

Members present:    Bodenhorn, Brattesani, Chiles, Evans, Hance 
(Chair),  Seth, Yamagata, Ex Officio Lowenberg

Visitors: Ning Wan, Jing Zhan, Karen Vanhercke, Jason Spies

1. Called to Order at 6:30 pm
2. Approved Agenda
3. Reviewed Projects

      a)  We reviewed the request from New Star Chinese School 
which was presented by Ning Wang and Jing Zhang
	A Mailman List and DCN Calendar were approved.

      b) We reviewed the request regarding a Slatters Court 
Documentary being made with a California Foundation for the 
Humanities Grant under the sponsorship of DCTV which was
     presented by Karen Vanhercke, Jason Spies
	A Shell account and a Mailman List were approved.

4. Continued Discussion of IPC Structure, Function and Operations.
	a) We talked of the benefit of more division of labor on the 
committee. The Chair need not necessarily be the one to take the 
meeting notes; the Executive Director can help keep records; perhaps 
a database of projects can be part of the new DCN web; the IPC web 
pages should be in the DCN area of the web.
	b) In order to gather feedback about sponsored projects Ann 
Evans offered to draft a brief questionnaire to distribute to an as yet 
undetermined set of projects.
	c) Continuing the discussion of the committee's name we 
decided to suggest a name change to the Board. The purpose of the 
change would be to better represent to the community the true nature 
of the committee's work. Of two names considered:
DCN Community Projects Resources Committee  and
DCN Resources Allocation Committee
it was decided to suggest  the latter.

5.  Review of projects on the web was assigned as homework at
http://www.dcn.org/dcn/ipc/ipc_projectweblinks.html the purpose of 
the review is to establish that the projects are accomplishing the 
intended goals for both the community groups and DCN (DCN's 
goal being to assist and support the groups in their missions and 
purposes.