Internet Society of Australia
A Chapter of the Internet Society
ABN 36 076 406 801Minutes of Directors' Meeting, 15 January 2007
The meeting commenced at 5:45 pm EST on 15 January 2007 and took place by way of teleconference in accordance with the Articles of Association of the Society. 1. Welcome 1.1 Attendance: Greg Adamson, Gunela Astbrink, Narelle Clark, Tony Hill, Kevin Karp, Ross Kelso, Kate Lance, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Jerry Leeson, Andrew McRae, Jeremy Malcolm, Peter Nissen, Gerry White 1.2 Apologies: None 1.3 Absent: None 2. Minutes of Previous Meeting Accepted: moved RK, seconded PN 3. Actions Arising from previous Minutes 3.1 Must keep on pursuing sponsorship - canvas member networks for potential sponsors, check out new areas, not just infrastructure - All Directors 3.2 Revenue Sub-Committee to follow up sponsorship initiative with Sensis, Austrade & Optus representatives. 3.3 KK to send out letters to invited directors - Done. 3.4 KK to send out appropriate letters to ED applicants - Done 3.5 KK to invite Karen Rose (ISOC Director Education & Training) to next board meeting - Done but will try to arrange for February board meeting 3.6 ED Selection committee to meet - Done 4. New Actions 4.1 Must keep on pursuing sponsorship - canvas member networks for potential sponsors, check out new areas, not just infrastructure - All Directors 4.2 Revenue Sub-Committee to follow up sponsorship initiative with Sensis, Austrade & Optus representatives. 4.3 ITOL associated website work, to continue one day per week to end of project (mid-April). 4.4 CISA's CommunIT Project - Connecting Up Conference, held over to next meeting. 4.5 CLO to prepare nomination of new ED for ISOC-AU representative on auDA Policy Review Panel by 25/1/2007 4.6 TH to arrange new ED's contract with Maddocks. 5. Reports (25 min) 5.1 Executive Director's Report - Written report accepted as circulated via email. 5.2 Treasurer's Report - Financial reports accepted as circulated via email. 5.3 Revenue Sub-committee - Revenue committee - no report presented. 5.4 Sponsorship - Sponsorship committee - Optus renewed and upgraded membership 6. Membership Issues - Review held on non-renewing members 7 SIG Reports 7.1 IPv6 SIG - IPv6 Summit - Progress - Verbal Report presented by TH. - ITOL IPv6 for e-Business - Progress - Verbal Report presented by TH. 7.2 S&E (Skills & Expertise) - No report presented. 7.3 Accessibility & Usability - No report presented. 8. Discussion 8.1 New ED package - bonus, pay-cap, days. - Move receipt and endorsement of ED selection report Moved NC, seconder CLO - Motion: Proceed with recommendation of selection report to make an offer to the preferred candidate - carried unanimously 8.2 Website work, old ED, funding. - Discussion re: relationship of ITOL and Society website work. 8.3 Transition process for new ED. - Agreed to final date for Kate Lance to be 26 January 2007 with completion of 4 week notification (that is paid to) period being 29 January 2007. Two days to be kept in hand for when new ED is on board. - New ED to commence on week starting 29 January 2007 8.4 ISOC-AU representation on auDA Policy Review Panel by 25 Jan 2007. - Proposal to nominate the ED to this role, action for Cheryl. 8.5 CISA's CommunIT Project - Connecting Up Conference. - Held over to next meeting 8.6 Meetings Attended - Narelle Clark 15/01/07 ITOL Steering Teleconference - Tony Hill 15/01/07 ITOL Steering Teleconference - Cheryl Langdon-Orr 13/12/06 Communication Alliance Forum Headlining VoIP 0900 - 0400 13/12/06 ITOL Steering Committee Meeting Teleconf 19/12/06 auDA Meeting Melb 19/12/06 APRALO Teleconf Meeting 2200 - 2315 04-05/01/07 APRALO Teleconference Meeting 2200 - 0056 15/01/07 ITOL Steering Teleconference 9 Any Other Business 10.1 None 10. Next meeting The meeting closed at 7:03pm. The next meeting will take place by teleconference at 5:45pm AEST on 12th February, 2007. 12. Confirmation Signed as a correct and complete record of the above meeting. Tony Hill, President, ISOC-AU