March CVI Minutes 2001

Date: 26/3/2001
Location Place: 92 Rosslyn St West Melbourne
Time: 7pm

Agenda

Minutes of Previous Meeting
Business Arising from the Minutes
Correspondence
Presidents Report
Treasurers Report
Executive Officers Report
WFTD Report
Recipient Report
Volunteer and Membership Report
Technical Committee Report
General Business
Item 1
- Appointment of a President
Item 2
- Letter from Kylie Davies
Item 3
- National Registration
Item 4
- Recipient Report
Item 5
- Executive Officer contract
Item 6
- RFTC Project
Item 7
- OH&S/Fire Warden
Item 8
- Grants
Item 9
- Star Office
Item 10
- Donor Next Meeting

Minutes

Present: Grant Diffey, Patricia Fraser, Bill McPherson, David Hatton, David Totterdell, Peter Eckersley, Robert Mead, Rodney Brown, Kylie Davies, Frank Copeland(obs), Alex Rowsell(obs)

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Patricia Fraser in the Chair for beginning of meeting

Item 1 Appointment of a President
Motion:' That we appoint Grant Diffey as President to fill the vacancy left by Kylie Davies resignation."
Moved: Patricia Fraser
Seconded: Bill McPherson

Item 2
Motion: "That we table and accept a letter of resignation from Kylie Davies."
Moved: Patricia Fraser
Seconded: Bill McPherson

Item 3
Motion:" That we spend $300 for National registration"
Moved: Patricia Fraser
Seconded: Bill McPherson
Do we need the Treasurers opinion on the expenditure?
Clayton-Utz are expecting us to lodge this tomorrow.

Constituion- Kylie expects to have a draft ready in 3 weeks (16/4). Then we have to call a general meeting to ratify the constitutional changes as well as the name (Computerbank Australia Incorporated), statement of purpose etc

Item 4
March-20 outstanding
-5 finalised
-35/40 awiting systems
Peter Eckersly ased whether WFTD will raise output, the meeting agreed that training is the current bottleneck.

Item 5
InfoXchange recieved government funding of $250,000 to set up 1000 Pc's, 800 in the flats project and 200 for Aboriginal settlements on the Murray River, with another $300,000 promised for networking.
Bill seeks an indication that Computerbank supports the project.

Motion:" That Computerbank Victoria Incorporated confirm our in principle support for the afore mentioned project."
Moved: Peter Eckersley
Seconded; Patricia Fraser
CWD

Bill also mentioned Good Company, a group of major IT people mentoring disadvantaged kids in IT.
Robert Mead would like some documents on this project.

Item 6
The Fire Warden course has gone up from $120 to $175.
OH&S course has no interprter available. Alex Rowsell has been told he con go and take notes for David Totterdelland but only David would be accredted although it is possible that Trades hall may accredit both attendees.

Motion:" That Alex Rowsell attend the Fire Wardens course."
Moved: David Totterdell
Seconded: Bill McPherson
CWD

David Totterdell expressed an unwillingness to attend OH&S training. How is he to become accredited-is it required? David will find out. Patricia Fraserwill also contact Clayton Utz for advice.

Item 7
The IYV grant was unsuccessful but we will resubmit with a few changes.
Kylie would like us to apply for the following grants
-Telematics Trust
-Sidney Myer

Motion:" That we approve Kylie to apply for these grants."
Moved: Robert Mead
Seconded: David Hatton
CWD

Item 8
Frank Copeland has reservations about the use of Star Office on users machines because it's resource hungry, not free software, not maintained, difficult to instal/configure/maintainand the alternatives are not being pushed.
Rodney Brown suggested that we need to distinguish between writing and viewing .doc files/presentation files also we need to be aware that wine/wordviewwork.

Motion:" That Computerbank promote the use of Free software in preference to propriatory softwarefor document creationand editing."
Moved: Frank Copeland< br> Seconded: Rodney Brown
CWD
Motion:" That the previous motion be ammended to read ' where practical'."
Moved: Patricia Fraser
Seconded: Peter Eckersley
Dissent not carried

Item 9
Robert Mead had a phonecall from a potential donor, he will email details for the pick up.

Meeting closed at 8.15pm