Meeting - Dec 9 2008

ISOC-NY held a public meeting on Dec 9 2008 at NYU.

This was a 1 hour meeting.

Attendees

• Joly MacFie
• David Solomonoff
• Evan Korth
• Hannah Kopelman
• Aaron Williamson

Nov 25 minutes

• reword: not all bills have been received but it is estimated that they add up to around the $5000 already received.
• approved

orgcom xmas holiday party

• Last year we were successful giving out IPv6 pins
• Apparently smaller this year due to lack of sponsors
• David has inquired about tables but seems unlikely.
• If we are going to give out pins we need a new slogan
• perhaps something on white spaces

ISXubuntu

• a contract is yet to be offered to the programmers
• wording has to be finalized also time period
• dvd duplicator is being paid for by events project
• deadline of Jan 7 to present contract
• Aaron is willing to look over contract
• We should check programmers are still interested
• if not there is an alternative project INCOGNITO

Events

• 3 possible speakers already initially contacted, need follow up
  • Matta Mason - piarte's dilemma
  • Robert Bruen - spam
  • Danny Younger / Beau Brendler - ICANN
• possible Colloquium at NYU Law School
  • Topic - Internet Censorship
  • we should meet with ILI and discuss?
  • Aaron recommends Derek Bambauer - Brooklyn Law School
  • Susan Crawford - might be a good keynoter
  • recent incidents - france - australia - uk & wikipedia - cuomo usenet blocking
  • helen nissenbaum / elizabeth stark / erin should be contacted
  • last year the Zittrain book launch worked well as a prep event
  • Even is in touch with Helen
• Other venues
  • David would like to use other venues e.g. Google
  • Consensus is that NYU meets our needs at present.

Publicity

• a publicity contact page has been set up on the wiki
• Gary Sharma has started a community directory at garysguide.com
• Evan is following NY Tech meetup
• Joly has joined nextny list

Community Outreach Project

• review of ISOC requirements on following up grants.
• Evan will draft interim report over Xmas
• Get approval to roll over events grant to 2009 / get remaining funds.
• Evan wants to get gifts for speakers
• DVD duplicator has been purchased
• Announcement of DVD availabilty to included in ISOC newsletter
• Details of DVDs to be added to webcast page on wiki
• MNN Public Access TV
  • Problem has been editing down to 28min slots
  • Joly suggests we not edit but serialize, with link to webcast.
  • Slot needs to be arranged with MNN
  • Aaron suggests short URL's

Other collaboarations

• ISOC-NY should actively seek out new collaborations with other organizations that can lead to co-sponsorship/funding opportunities.
  • projects should be meritorious, internet related, and have matchable funding.
  • aaron will keep an eye out for open-software projects
  • joly has contacted people's production house.

One Web Day

• We did contribute some money toward the Washington Sq event.expenses.
• Joly has been standing in as webmaster for One Web Day
• Site really needs professional attention to properly present the event.
• We could apply for a grant and get a pro-shop to redesign the site.at a discount?
  • Contact Susan and suggest this.
  • Perhaps theMechanism would do it as a training project.