February 27 1999 Nat Minutes
Date Saturday February 27th
Location Virtual Moreland, 352a Sydney Road, Coburg
Time 2pm
Agenda Reports:
- Christopher Anderson (Carlo Carli) meeting. - Kylie Davies, Peter Eckersley, Patricia Fraser
- PILCH (Legal support) - Patricia Fraser
-VICSEG (Victorian Cooperative on Children's Services for Ethnic Groups) - Samira Baho
- The Innovations Centre of Vic. - Bill McPherson
Constitutional Matters:
- Draft with suggestions gleaned in the last 2 weeks to be presented and discussed with a view to completing;
- Whether or not to have by-laws as mentioned on the list; potential drafting of by-laws.
Special Guest:
Print Musuem's Micheal Isaachsen to attend meeting re: Computerbank and The Computer Museum.
Support Issues:
- Drafting NDA/letter of request: Rodney Brown
- Drafting request for support / bringing in some "big guns": Multi Media Victoria
- General trolling for support: Christopher Anderson's suggested contacts; phone, letter or both?
Allocate people to do contacts
- any other potential lines of inquiry
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Working with other similar groups (eg: Rural and Peninsula Disability
Support, the mob at Macfarlane Burnett, SkillsNet, any others
Practical, Admin & technical matters:
- interim treasurer while Pam is ill
- membership fees - some have paid, some not
- Finding out if people can help with moving equipment
- More info on currently working systems
General Business:
Anything not covered above that people want to raise
Minutes
Present:
Kylie Davies, Daniel Morriss, Bill McPherson, Samira Boho, Peter
Eckersley, Patricia Fraser, Rodney Brown Apologies: none submitted
Meeting opened at 2.50 pm.
The meeting discussed address and contact details to be used on Computerbank letterhead, in the context of putting together mailouts, proposals and so on. It was decided for the present to use Patricia (Secretary) Fraser's address and fax number, and Kylie's phone and email.
Patricia will contact Rodney by email within the next two weeks regarding the Non-disclosure Agreement and letter mentioned by him at the previous meeting.
Kylie will draft a "form letter" to be used for thanks to donors.
Kylie, Bill, Peter and Patricia will converse by email to discuss who to contact with requests for support, and what kinds of support to ask for, and include the potential for telephone contact as well as letters.
Patricia will glean all the information from the website and work it up into a brochure.
Patricia presented the letter from PILCH which said Computerbank had been approved as a potential recipient of pro bono legal assistance, and that our name had been passed on. The letter reminded us that we were not thereby guaranteed free legal assistance!
Samira gave us information about VicSEG, which will be made available to members at the next meeting. She said VicSEG is willing to assist us, particularly with meeting space.
Samira also brought 2 Red Hat distribution CDs which were contributed by CyberSource.
We discussed the consitution draft which Patricia brought to the meeting, particularly the "objectives" section. It was thought that the Free Software Foundation should be mentioned, and the GNU/Linux issue clarified.
We also discussed the clause which mentions pecuniary interest, and Patricia moved that we scrub this clause if it is legally ok to employ members. Danial Morris seconded, carried unanimously.
We decided not to set a date for the next meeting until later.
Bill called for people to help at the Print Museum on the following Saturday or Sunday, March 6th/7th, at 81 Moreland Street, Spotswood, any time between 9am and 7pm.
Membership fees were paid by Kylie Davies, Daniel Morriss, Peter Eckersley, Samira Baho and Rodney Brown.
Bill reported on his visit to the Innovation Centre of Victoria. This is partly supported by the Government, with its business being the promotion of Victorian innovation. He spoke with them about Computerbank. ICV has contacts with large companies, and may be able to help us not only with contacts for donations, but with submissions for support.
Meeting closed 4:30 pm.
