Meeting - Jun 19 2008

ISOC-NY held a public meeting on Jun 19 2008 at NYU.

Attendees

• Joseph Shraibman
• Hannah Kopelman
• Joly MacFie
• Evan Korth
• David Solomonoff
• Dave Fletcher
• Jeffrey Barke
• Aaron Williamson
• Matt Cooperrider

Minutes

1. Minutes

• Minutes of May meeting approved.

2. Remote Participation

• Peter Bloniarz of SUNY Albany and Gene Gaines of ISOC-DC are interested in participating remotely in ISOC-NY events.
• We did a test stream of the recent Forum of Political Participation using ustream.tv using Matt C's powerbook -

all worked well, but we didn't announce beforehand so didn't have viewers.

• Mogulus is an alternative system.
• Harvard has a live question tool. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/questions/

3. ISOC-DC http://isoc-dc.org

• It is noted that ISOC-DC is hard-up for members - can we help?
• Evan is going to the Democracy in Action conference in DC in a week's time. He can promote it to those present.
• Joly suggests buttons.

4. Monthly Meeting times

• ISOC-NY has always traditionally met on 3rd Thursday.
• We should check to see for conflicts with other groups before setting a fall schedule.
• Garysguide is a good resource.
• Aaron will check.

5. OneWebDay http://onewebday.org

• Online meeting was held with ISOC chapters and Susan Crawford.
• Shiva of ISOC-Chennai volunteered to run a 'Stories' contest - Joly has set up a WordPress for that.
• Matt C. is running the 'Ambassadors' program, where one person daily blogs and/or otherwise publicly states support.
• Dave can give it a mention in the Web Standards group.

6. Web Standards meetup group http://webstandards.meetup.com/118/

• Run by Dave and Jeffrey, meets at their office.
• Emphasis on implementation rather than advocacy.
• Audio podcast is on iTunes - search on theMechanism
• Looking for speakers.
• Should be announced on ISOC-NY announce list

7. Personal Democracy Forum http://www.personaldemocracy.com/

• Monday/Tuesday next week
• Evan Has arranged for 5 half price tickets ($300). 3 or 4 are available.
• It's unclear whether the event will be webcast.

8. Internet Policy Issues

• ISOC France has appealed for support in opposition for proposed new law that will mandate disconnection for copyright infringers.
  • We will wait for further developments before issuing statement.
• Cuomo & Usenet - Cuomo has pressured ISPs into removing access to almost all Usenet groups including entire alt. hierarchy.
  • It's still possible to use other providers to access USENET.
  • ISOC-NY should issue a statement.

(Aaron Williamson leaves)

• We need to explore avenues for issuing news releases.
• prweb costs $75/$80
• We need to have a rapid response team for policy issues. An action group. ISOC-NY Internet Policy Task Force.
• In absentia we nominate Aaron as Chairman.
• We need to be become a recognized lobbying body, and be represented w/legislators.
• We could implement Fred Benenson's CauseCall system
  • We should get him to talk
  • Could be videotaped

9. Access

• Gail Brewer's office as yet not contacted on ombudsman idea.
• php forum could be be set up on site?
  • would need constant monitoring to avoid spam.
• form for people to report problems
  • Who would follow up?
• Drew Clark is doing national survey http://broadbandcensus.com
• NYC Broadband Advisory Committee has an ongoing study.
  • Where is its report?
• We could get together with NYC Wireless and other interested organizations to form a pressure group?
• Verizon were granted recently new tv franchise with hardly any public discussion.
  • Again, emphasizes need to be able to respond rapidly.

10. Website, Discuss list, Interfacing with other chapters

• A facility has been added to the website such that items can be automatically forwarded to the discuss list (text only)
• Jeffrey asks if there is a system to syndicate material between ISOC Chapters
  • There is a chapters wiki, a chapter rep mailing list.
  • Chapters wiki uses tikiwiki - allows for translation
  • Not all chapters have sites/rss feeds.
  • Forthcoming ISOC AMS will have website-in-a-box feature for chapters that may well include syndication.

11. ISXubuntu

• Printed update issued.
• Joly notes that dreamhost has a native 'Version Control System' that could be used.
• Too much work for volunteer project. Needs pro coders.
• Could become a standalone project
• Needs more funding.
• Dave is willing to supply graphics.

12. Finances

• IRS Regulations have changed. Non-profits now have to file annually. In hand.
• Sales Tax exemption application underway.
• Paypal account is set up. We have received one donation.
• Grant application to ISOC has been submitted.
• We should identify possible patrons/sponsors.

13. Project Management

• Do we need to implement project management system?
• We have insufficient manpower for existing projects.
• We should focus on achievable projects.
• Dave suggests we look at GroupHub http://www.grouphub.org/
• Jeff suggests pmwiki http://www.pmwiki.org/