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Diocese of Newark
Diocesan Council Technology Committee
May 9, 1998, St. Peter's, Morristown, 10 AM
Present: Steve, Jan, Ray, Ken, Dale
Proposed Agenda:
1. Review of Goals
2. Next meeting dates
3. May 15 assistance?
4. June 6 convention presence
5. Software purchasing plan progress
6. Progress at Episcopal House
7. Bonnie Magneson's request from Congregational Development
8. Virginia Barrett Barker's request
9. Web Workshop Feedback
10. Other items
Meeting dates:
Tuesday June 23, Pompton Lakes 7:30 PM-
Bring calendar information for fall workshop participation.
Because Dale had to leave early, we agreed to hear from her first.Dale voiced two concerns about the committee's involvement in coming events:
(1)May 15th Candidate's Forum plans - we have heard nothing since our decline to do the live audio or the live chat room
The plans as they were outlined to her included:
May 15 at Summit - panel discussion with 10 questions prepared, but new to the nominees - each candidate gets an opening statement and then the questions.
Sat and Sun - candidates rotate among 6 rooms - audience stays in place and they move
Press conference May 15 noon - Dale, Doug LaBlanc, Steve Chambers - Dale might send article maybe to put up Saturday.
(2) June 6 - entire day and balloting will take place within a Eucharist - 8:15 The Minitsry of the Word - prayers, 1st ballot, Bishop Browning's sermon, 2nd ballot, break, third ballot, ....
We said we'd provide printers and overheads, but Ken says that's as nothing in the nave at St. Peter's we'd need an LCD projector and screen (rented).
If we are to be helpful, we need to know what they expect of us for both things, if anything. Steve will contact Louie and find out what! ( It turned out that they don't want anything except the overhead and printer)
Dale also reported that now that Larry is working full time at Episcopal House, things are finally getting done. A wiring piece still needs to be taken care of, but they're fixing that Monday. Software is ok. The only other problems seem to arise when the agencies that are outside go ahead and do something without consultation. This is a little tricky - for example, the youth ministries printer that was bought is on the fritz, but no one knew where it came from because it was not done through staff...
Ken has a 20 page handbook for his work place that spells out these issues - what will and will not be supported by tech-support - he will send to Dale and maybe that will help. He'll also send it on disk in Word so that it can be modified for diocesan use, if it is appropriate.Goals review:
Software:
We've done nothing to date. In terms of a financial package, Computreasurer really does the proper thing, Quickbooks etc. will work and there is no consensus as to anything that everyone would willingly adopt over whatever they are presently using. Some church accounting package is being adopted by St. Peter's that will theoretically do everything and your parochial report. One of the issues is to put it in one machine in the office, but that makes it impossible to have volunteers do it at home.
We need to pursue something that satisfies the Episcopal Church. We need to recommend something that would do the job. Someone at 815 might be working on this stuff. Michael may know the person to contact. There may be a standing committee or something. Ray has agreed to follow up on this.
Dale recommends that we take windows of opportunities like the issue of Windows 98 to buy the package for the diocese and distribute it to everyone.
Ray will find out what the price for the single package is at his dealer's prices. Then we may be able to see what we can help the most congregations to accomplish.
Hardware standards. Ken's piece in The Voice was excellent. We need to recommend an external modem.
Diocesan e-mail - A list-serve would be a good starting point. We'd really like an e-mail network for the diocese, which would require a server. Would Louie know how to do this?Bonnie's request was for the Technology Committee to be present at the October Conference: Ask our membership who would like to support this with what level of participation. Do we want to do more survey work -a presentation- or just have a presence-???
In terms of our goals, we need to respond to Council item by item and then set up again short term goals for next year.
It was decided that no further response to Virginia is appropriate at this time
Do we want to do another workshop in September / October / November - check calendars
Council Presentation - June 10 - 7:00 - Episcopal House
Just like to have all committees present.
Financial packages not yet, we are looking at the bigger picture
We are prepared to work with congregations to purchase office packages and we're trying to get certified as academic or whatever.
Presentation of the thing we did at the beginning of the webworkshop? No, too uncertian in that space.
Ask for new goals presentation in Dec. Or Jan. Feb.
E-mail directories
Steve will do the presentation, but others to support him would be good.
Do we want to put together a pamphlet? -
list of webpages of all the churches
goals
webpages - Diocese, Tech, Candidates
Webworkshop stuff
What else - rsvp immediately
Ken will check on our own domain name and routing to Dfms.org
The meeting adjourned before noon.--Return to Technology Committee Home Page
