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ISOC-NY Public Meeting, Thursday, May 20, 2004

==Persons Attending==
* Millard Clements
* Roman Glukhoy
* Lyn Ohira
* Khrisna Picart
* Joseph Shraibman
* David Solompnoff
* Charlie Thill

==Minutes==

1. The minutes of the April meeting were approved.

2. Khrisna suggested that we do not need to select a second
representative for the "Free as in EXPO" organizing committee.

3. There was some discussion of the isocny web site. There were
some technical suggestions. Khrisna will work on it.

4. There was some consideration of possible links with the isoc-ny web
site.

David offered to suggest some possible links. The sense of the discussion
was that we all should suggest possible links to relevant web sites.

The suggestion was that we should discuss possible links on the bod list..

5. Joseph called attention to the fact that Sierra Club, New York City Group
is participating in a cartridge recycling through Recycle First.

Here is information about Recycle First:

* Recycle First is a New Hampshire based recycling firm.
*Recycling First pays $1.00 each for inkjet cartridge.
*It pays $2.00 for laser cartridges.
*Recycle First provides postage free envelopes in which to mail cartridges.

If you would like to check out this possibility, here is some relevant
information. It may be an easy way to raise funds for not for profit
groups such as isoc-ny as we protect the environment from unwisely disposed
cartridges.

'''Recycle First''' <br/>
Contact Information
* [mailto:info@recyclefirst.com info@recyclefirst.com]
* http://www.recyclefirst.com/
Phone Numbers
*Direct: 888.777.7359
*Fax: 603.516.7333

Headquarters Mailing Address<br/>
100 Main Street, Suite 222<br/>
Dover, NH 03820<br/>

It was the sense of the discussion that we should agree to recycle our cartridges with Recycle First.

6. Lyn made a proposal

She said that we should organize a series of talks on important  issues germane to
the mission of isoc-ny.

The following issues were mentioned:

*Freedom and the Internet
*Voting, e-voting
*Patents and Standards
*Internet 2
*Wireless
*YouthCaN.
*Internet and the Arts.
*Privacy.

Lyn's notion is that each session should have three sorts of speakers: 
*A technical person
*a politician
*an informed person relating to the issue.

The sense of the discussion was in support of this proposal. This is what we
should be doing. It was suggested that we discuss these issues on the bod list.