Meeting Notes May 19, 2008

Davis Community Network
Resource Allocation Committee
Regular Meeting Mon May 19, 2008
Meeting Notes

Members present (6):  Brattesani, Chang, Chiles, Crumley, Hance, Meizel,
Members absent (3): Evans, Gonzalez, Yamagata
Visitors: Lou Ziskind

1.  Called to order at 6:40PM
2.  Approved agenda as circulated

3.  We reviewed the following projects:

       a)  Explorit Science Center request from Jon Bell
    Represented by Lou Ziskind, Executive Director
    1 Plone Site

    Explorit had been invited some months ago to consider using a
Plone site and recently determined this would be a good direction for
the organization.
    Their May 7th application was approved by the committee by
email before the meeting in order to expedite the start of the
process.
    Lou Ziskind attended to address the committee and for the
committee to explain some issues and to answer Lou's questions.  Lou
explained that a sizable number of "science content" files would
remain in the shell account but that  "program and operations" files
relevant for a Content Management System would be re-created in the
Plone site and management of different sections would be assigned to
specific staff.  A program staff person with some Internet experience
has been given some IT hours to plan and oversee this project..

       b)  Davis School Arts Foundation
    Request by Gayle Bryner
    10 additional MB storage for their shell

    After some frustrating efforts by the RAC to locate a person
in charge of the dsaf website, Anne (the RAC chair) was contacted by
Gayle Bryner who explained she had heard that the committee was
searching for a dsaf website contact and she was it.  Anne explained
that the problem was that their shell had exceeded its storage
capacity and they needed to remove some files or request additional
MB.  Gayle did both and the committee agreed by consensus to an
additional 10 MB bringing the dsaf total to 20 MB free of charge.
Jan said she would contact Gayle and explain how to use Telnet to
check on disk usage.

4.  Quick Report on recent poll of DCN/RAC resource users.
    Anne reported that about 30% of those polled in March had
responded. Many of the non-responses are believed to be still the
people responsible for the resources authorized for use by their
organizations so it was agreed that a follow-up should go out soon
just to the non-responders.  Anne will use the DCN-RAC-Projects
Mailman List for this second round (setting responders' subscriptions
to "no-mail" for this message only.)

5.  Wrap up of Simple Sites Review.
    We spent the last few minutes of the meeting adding some
review information from Diane who had been absent at the last
meeting.  Input from only one person (RY) is now needed.

We adjourned at 7:50 PM

Next meeting: MONDAY,.June 16, 2008