March 9, 2000
Present: John Stranzl, Steve Boston, Johanna Young, Larry Toppin,
John Rollins, Jan Paxton, Dave Jones, Michael Francaviglia
Next meeting: Monday, May 8, 2000, 7 PM, Christ
Church, Pompton
Classes:
Steve - We've gotten Dreamweaver and Flash, and we have a $25 training package, so we can do our own training. We've got a single copy, which can be copied. Margaret Giammarino and Kitty Kawacki have been to the Dreamweaver class and have agreed to help with our training class. We need to pick a date to do that and run such a class on a Saturday. If we buy 20 copies of Dreamweaver, we can get them for $69, so Steve recommends that we purchase 30 and give out legal copies with the class, as well as getting 5 copies of the Flash and/or other programs. We're giving a class that is worth $250 in software and $1500 in training. Do we want to charge something for the class and offer scholarships, if necessary?
John - There needs to be at least one basic class that does basic html. The Dreamweaver folks actually do their training that way, with a full day of html first. Run two classes back-to-back?
May 20 - basic html, limit to (??) 1 on 1 - send e-mail to ask for consultants. We'll need 4/5 consultants.
June 10 - Dreamweaver, references required, sponsored by a congregation, $50 fee, scholarships available (retail value $250 software, $1500 class time.)
Jan make this happen - get consultants lined up, send out notices and flyers, coordinate registrations. This will conflict with the diocesan Anti-Racism Conference/required training.
Voting Software
Dave - got the diskettes and sat with Larry briefly. The programming doesn't look too hard, but the company has a windows version, running $1200. Majority ballots ordered were not readable - wrong form sent. The design piece is a coordinate program. We got a letter from Larry offering to sell us his stuff. Michael contacted him asked to negotiate. Johanna got what she could off the hard drive, but doubts that it includes anything of what we really need. Dave said Larry said that he had left the documentation on a bookcase in his old office. Johanna took everything from his office and has it all, but didn't see anything like that. Steve suggests that we look to see what's out there commercially. Ken told Dave he'd help him. John Stranzl will work with Dave to see what we have and where we go from here.
DSL
Johanna - hasn't decided on a company, but one has been recommended. There are really 2 main providers behind all of the offers. The decision has to go to John Zinn before anything is finally decided.
Internet Policy
Johanna passed out the policy she and Ken worked out. Louie is concerned about #6 Hate speech and harassment. John Stranzl says that Harassment would cover it and eliminate the ambiguity of Hate Speech. John R. recommends that the new wording for 6 go to Johanna and that the result be sent off to Council for adoption.
Update on Server:
Johnanna - They've been visiting upgrade vendors this week. No decision has been made yet. All will migrate from the old server to the new server and upgrade to Novell Upgrade Small Business package. Shelby says that the financial package will run on the new server. They're finding that the actual cost will be much more than anticipated because the new server will require more than just the box.
Anand Resource Center
We got e-mail about what is available. Their web page is at att.net, which is a little different. Can't they be on the diocesan site? Only if Kitty also gets permission to have ftp access to the server. Could we get Kitty to have an initial splash page and then link to her stuff.? If she does that what about every other commission? It is a policy decision, but it would be possible for Diocesan Council to pass a policy that says that the top page for all official entities will be at www.dioceseofnewark.org/entity/.
The meeting adjourned after setting the next meeting date.
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