Internet Society of Australia
A Chapter of the Internet Society
ABN 36 076 406 801Minutes of Directors' Meeting, 5 October 2010
Minutes of Directors' Meeting, 5 October 2010 The meeting commenced at 5:45 pm AEST on October 5 2010 and took place by way of teleconference in accordance with the Articles of Association of the Society. 1. Welcome 1.1 Attendance: Gunela Astbrink, Paul Brooks, Narelle Clark, Kevin Karp, Robert Forsyth, Robert Gregory, Tony Hill, Ross Kelso, Jerry Leeson, Andrew McRae, Holly Raiche, Gerry White 1.2 Apologies: Cheryl Langdon-Orr, 1.3 Absent: 2. Minutes of Previous Meeting Accepted minutes of Previous Meeting August 3, 2010, Moved: RK, second: RG, passed 3. Actions Arising/Carried Over from the Minutes 3.1 HR to liaise with KL on having newsletter on website as a compendium of meetings attended, submissions made, etc. -ongoing 3.2 HR to continue to follow up with ACCAN on content filtering activities - Ongoing 3.3 Follow up ISOC-AU/APNIC activities: HR to liase Anne Lord to arrange collateral for the APNIC meeting and to continue discussions with potential sponsors, PB to continue discussion with James Spencely - Done 3.4 Board resolved to support HR in liaising with Melb Conv Centre regarding APRICOT as per: "I have been approached by the Melb. Convention Centre as to whether we'd be interested in being involved in an APRICOT meeting in 2013/2014/2015.They would foot most of the bill. I am seeking further details and may have them by the meeting" - to be held over to next meeting - Ongoing 3.5 CL-O to meet with another Director at Bendigo Bank Galston Gorge Branch to complete paperwork for allowing Bookkeeper online access to Society accounts. - ongoing 3.6 HR & RG to fine tune wording on Sponsorship/Supporter agreement - Done 3.7 NC to liaise with prospective donors who previously had made offers of donation - ongoing 3.8 HR,GA & NC to investigate member applications that have not been processed - ongoing 3.9 CL-O & NC to generate the text change for the online application submission process to be then submiited for quotation and approval from KL - ongoing 3.10 RG to nominate to represent ISOC-AU on the auDA names panel - Done 4. New and Carried Over actions 4.1 HR to liaise with KL on having newsletter on website as a compendium of meetings attended, submissions made, etc. 4.2 HR to continue to follow up with ACCAN on content filtering activities 4.3 Board resolved to support HR in liaising with Melb Conv Centre regarding APRICOT as per: "I have been approached by the Melb. Convention Centre as to whether we'd be interested in being involved in an APRICOT meeting in 2013/2014/2015.They would foot most of the bill. I am seeking further details and may have them by the meeting" - to be held over to next meeting 4.4 CL-O to meet with another Director at Bendigo Bank Galston Gorge Branch to complete paperwork for allowing Bookkeeper online access to Society accounts. 4.5 NC to liaise with prospective donors who previously had made offers of donation 4.6 HR,GA & NC to investigate member applications that have not been processed 4.7 CL-O & NC to generate the text change for the online application submission process to be then submitted for quotation and approval from KL 4.8 HR to contact AL re joint ISOC/ISOC-au table at the IPV6 Summit 4.9 RG to forward examples of David Goldstein's to rest of Board 5. Reports 5.1 Executive Director's Report 5.1.1 Acceptance of ED report - ED Report distributed via email. - ED report received 5.2 Treasurer's Report - Treasurer's report distributed via email. - Treasurer's report received 5.3 Revenue Sub-committee - No report presented. 5.4 Sponsorship - HR to formalise any sponsorships as required - CLO requested that an agenda item be created for sponsorship arrangements at the next F2F meeting 5.5 Remuneration Sub-Committee - No report presented. 5.6 Employment Sub-Committee - No report presented. 5.7 Director's Representations 5.7.1 Robert Gregory - auDA 2010 Names Panel on Tuesday the 14th of September 5.7.2 Gunela Astbrink - APNIC 30 meeting, Gold Coast, 25 & 26 August - promoting ISOC-AU on ISOC stand - PacINET 2010, Port Vila, 13-17 September - presentation and workshop 6. Membership Issues 6.1 Membership committee has met, items were: 6.1.1 Update of brochure. 6.1.2 NC's sponsorship application 6.1.3 Regular updates to be made 6.1.4 RF observed that a membership initiative may be to arrange a regular collection of links of interest to the membership 6.2 GA advised that ISOC has some new ISOC-labelled objects for promotional giveaways at seminars and conferences 6.3 GA advised that at APNIC she had some positive membership conversations 7. SIGs Report 7.1 IPv6 SIG 7.1.1 2010 IPv6 Summit is shaping up as a great success 7.1.2 Sponsorship and registrations are significantly up on previous year 7.1.3 TH was nominated by IPv6 Forum to chair the PacINet one day IPv6 workshop and was impressed by the quality of information presented by international speakers. ISOC-AU was well recognised. 7.2 S&E (Skills & Expertise) 7.2.1 Seed proposal document has been distributed to the Board 7.3 Accessibility & Usability 7.3.1 GA attended PacINet and spoke to representatives of the Vanuatu Government 7.3.2 An application has been submitted to ISOC's Community Grants programme. 8. Discussion 8.1 Review of progress by Directors in pursuit of their goals defined at the Strategy Day 8.2 TH requested the following item to be discussed: "ISOC-AU Directors to consider the nominations that have been put forward for this year's AGM" 8.2.1 The board had a discussion about the nominations for incoming directors. 8.3 Ambassador Sponsorship proposal from NC (see attached pdf). 8.3.1 To be actioned via email discussion. 9. Any Other Business 10. Next Meeting The meeting closed at 7:52pm. Tele-conference to be held on 2nd November, 2010. 11. Confirmation Signed as a correct and complete record of the above meeting. Tony Hill, President, ISOC-AU