January 11 2000 Nat Minutes

Date Tuesday 11th January 2000
Location Victorian Innovation Centre, Hawthorn
Time 7pm
Agenda - Visitor Introduction
- Premises Updates - Trish Fraser / Bill Mc Pherson
- Tutorial Updates - Trish Fraser
- Discuss Annual General meeting date
- CBV Gnusletter
- FCCVi
Minutes
Present: Kylie Davies, Patricia Fraser, Tim Price, Peter Eckersley, Bill McPherson, Ana Letina, Rodney Brown, Visitor Chris Brown of Pheonix Internet Services in Box Hill Apologies: David Totterdell, Daniel Morriss
Kylie opened the meeting by asking Chris to explain about his offer of space and internet services through his ISP (phoenixis.com.au). Chris charges $25 per month for unlimited access and 200MB of downloads, and this would be offered to us or to our recipients. He also has around 10 square metres of space which he could let us use for storage; at this stage it appears that he means short-term storage, but does not wish to charge us and could allow us to hold a key and have ready access. Chris stayed through the meeting and is to be subscribed to the mailing list. Bill and Patricia took his contact details and will pass them on to potential customers.

Kylie has $10 membership fee received from Sam Reid on December 24th 1999, details given to Patricia for the membership register.

Patricia reported on her and Bruce McCubbery's search for premises to date. Records are in her contact book for detailed information for members. Church groups (Anglican, Catholic, Uniting) have been approached, with no success to date; the Catholic property office has no space, the Anglican church has not responded as yet. The Uniting Church told them to approach the Brunswick congregation, and although the church itself has no suitable space, the minister was to ask his parishioners if they had any space we could use and come back to us. This needs to be followed up around the end of January, as does the Anglican contact. The best contact to date has been the Historic Buildings Management Committee, where Mr Ivar Nelsen has been very helpful. His original suggestion of Horticultural Hall is exceptional, and they are trying to arrange to meet with the management.

Patricia reported that her tutorial-writing effort has bogged down partly because the Gnome login on the box is severely faulty and partly because there is rather too much installed and available on the box for a very inexperienced user. She will write to the technical list about this and continue to write a manual for the system as she thinks it should be, allowing for editing later on update from the technical group.

We decided to ask the members re dates for an Annual General Meeting, suggesting the last two weekends in February to encourage attendance by country members. Kylie will post the query to the list.

Ana is editing the Gnusletter, and requires all submissions by January 16th. She has two so far.

Kylie requested that Patricia email the final version of the Constitution so it could be put up on the website.

A meeting has been arranged for Wednesday January 19th at 6:30 pm the VIC between Patricia, Kylie and Peter to begin preparing funding submissions, with a possible further meeting to complete the work the following week. Kylie will research the most appropriate submissions to be made and bring the information to the meeting.

A technical visit to complete work at the FCCVI is arranged for Monday January 17th.

The meeting closed at 8:45 pm.