Meeting - Jul 17 2008

ISOC-NY held a public meeting on Jul 17 2008 at NYU.

Attendees

• Joseph Shraibman
• Hannah Kopelman
• Joly MacFie
• Evan Korth
• David Solomonoff
• Dave Fletcher
• Jeffrey Barker
• Aaron Williamson
• Alicia Gibb
• Merle Bush
• Forest Mars
• William Jimenez
• Sandy Torres

Minutes

1. Minutes

• Minutes of June meeting approved.

2. Meet new members

• William Jimenez <wetwillie83(at)yahoo.com>
• Sandy Torres <sandyyanks(at)aol.com>

3. By-laws reform

• Needed because we have 1 year not 2 year office terms and other anomalies
• Too cumbersome for small organization
• Proceed by making new proposed by-laws page on wiki
• Joseph in charge

4. Meetings and events

• General discussion.
• Evan will be event co-ordinator
• Matthew Cooperrider to be paid to be assistant
• Last mile event - could be coordinated with Internetforeveryone.org ?
• We should suggest ideas for events from the public.
• Aaron can ask Eben Moglen
• Social media & privacy

5. MNN public access cable

• David is keeen to get some of our events onto MNN
• Shows are restricted to 28mins
• Extra work involved in editing beyond Joly's voluntary scope.
• Joly will edit NYU forum for $100
• Forest reports that MNN will be going from 4 to 6 public access channels shortly and to 9 in 2010

6. ISXubuntu

• Seperate meeting needed to discuss issues.
• William is interested in the project
• New AGPL licence for site code has been introduced by FSF
• Jacob Appelbaum (inventor of Tor) will be in town this weekend
• Alicia will discuss project with him
• Cloudsmith project is an DIY install package aggregator / distributor
• Do we need to distro disks/ purchase a duplicator?
• Alicia has a programmer who would finish the project for $7000

7. OneWebDay http://onewebday.org

• Lawrence Lessig confirmed for Washington Square Sep 22 event
• 20 Sep Evan is doing seminars @ NYU
• Joly will do video
• teachers required

8. Access advocacy

• Joly to contact Kunal @ Gale Brewer's office to discuss
• Aaron has been investigating Alicia's case legal issues
• Aaron to post findings on discuss list
• Aaron will talk to Speakeasy
• David to contact AG's office
• We should have procedures for dealing with access problems

9. ICANN and .nyc

• Our At-Large Structure application will be voted on next week.
• ICANN has approved the continuing process of licensing new gTLDs.
• Tom estimates next Feb the earliest time to put in application
• There is possibly a rival commercial candidate for .nyc
• City applicants are putting together 'Paris Memorandum' on the responsibilities of Cities to gTLDs.
• Paris and Berlin applicants are both independent non-profits.

10. Web Standards

• Susan has requested that OWD site be w3c compliant
• Jeff will do the work.
• Then we will look at isoc-ny site