Date: Sat May 6 10:30:31 1995 From: ac174@freenet.carleton.ca (Rosaleen Dickson) Subject: Motion for the board meeting I'd like to see my proposed motion on the agenda for the next board meeting. The motion is to organize regular educational sessions for board members and interested volunteers, the first one to be June 5 at which time Miranda will give instruction on www. This motion was a suggestion by Miranda and after I posted it to all board members I've received several favourable comments. Now I guess it should be on the agenda. Can you arrange this? Thanks, -- Rosaleen Dickson - "Freenet For the Fun of it" - ac174@freenet.carleton.ca Date: Thu May 4 17:31:23 1995 From: ao594@freenet.carleton.ca (Yvonne Dionne) Subject: Re: A motion for our next agenda >I should perhaps have sent this just to Richard to put on our next agenda, >but I want everyone to know what I'm proposing so if there's a fateful >flaw here they will let me know (I'm sure someone will) > >This idea came from Miranda and it seems like a useful initiative. >It's because not every board member and volunteer is a technical genius and >there's no reason why we shouldn't at least give it a try. > >So my motion is as follows: >That NCF hold education sessions for interested Board members and >NCF volunteers for demonstrating new technologies at a time mutually >agreed upon each month. I agree with this motion, Rosaleen, but would like word "interested" to be dropped, though, as I feel this type of education session will also be a good time to informally discuss possible NCF policy and direction. Some folks might know all about the topic, but their ideas about how it could / should be applied to the NCF are needed too. I see these sessions as an extension of the board meeting, open equally to volunteers. We should all attend, if possible. >Miranda has offered to conduct the first of such a series: >The first month education presentation on June 5 focus on the World Wide >Web and how it could be implemented on NCF as a permanent service to users. If this date is still on, count me in! >Please let me know if anyone will second tnhis motion, and also what >everyone thinks about it. It seems very forward-looking to me. To me as well. I will second this motion. -- Yvonne Dionne National Capital FreeNet Ottawa, Ontario Board Member ao594@freenet.carleton.ca CANADA! GIVE SOMETHING BACK Note the motion I proposed and the one Rosaleen forwarded to the board are not the same. Miranda Proposal: On-going education for board members (and other volunteers) ===================================================================== Problems: ~~~~~~~~~ * Board members may not be knowledgeable enough about network technology and developing technologies to make the decisions NCF needs made. * Board meetings are a poor forum for educating board members. There just isn't time to do any teaching or for free ranging discussion. * NCF is not a good platform for demonstrating some of the new technologies out there. * Not every board member (or other interested parties) has access to a platform which can be used to try new stuff. Proposed Solution: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A monthly education session for board members in particular but open to all volunteers. A session would run about 2 hours and would focus on demonstrating something not currently available on NCF (eg open WWW, GUI, FTP) or a tour of another access provider (ie another FreeNet or a commercial provider). (Suggested day and time: Second Monday of the month) Format: ~~~~~~~ The first half of the meeting will be a demonstration. The second half will be divided into a panel shooting the breeze on how this would and would not fit into NCF's design. Then the floor could be opened up for discussion. Suggested reading material would be provided as a foundation of the discussion. Goals: ~~~~~~ The plan is not to come to any conclusions or to add tasks to the full projects lists but to give board members more perspective on how NCF differs from other access providers (and other FreeNets) and to ensure board members have a better idea what the latest buzzword refers too. Drawbacks: ~~~~~~~~~~ Yet another meeting to organize, attend, etc. Motions: ~~~~~~~~ NCF hold monthly education sessions for Board members and other interested NCF volunteers. These session shall focus on 1) demonstrating new technologies, 2) another community network system, 3) existing services of NCF not commonly used by board members, or 4) a service not currently offered by NCF. These sessions will be regularly held on the second Monday of the month. The first month education presentation on June 5 focus on the World Wide Web and how it could be implemented on NCF as a permanent service to users. The session will be coordinated by Miranda Gray ak717 (with presenters as needed). -- Miranda Gray -- xx717@freenet.carleton.ca Hardware-Software Committee Chair