Internet Society of Australia
A Chapter of the Internet Society
ABN 36 076 406 801Minutes of Directors' Meeting, 2 November 2010
Minutes of Directors' Meeting, 2 November 2010 The meeting commenced at 5:45 pm AEST on November 2, 2010 and took place by way of teleconference in accordance with the Articles of Association of the Society. Meeting duration: 65 minutes 1. Attendance: Present: Gunela Astbrink, Narelle Clark, Roger Clarke, Robert Forsyth, Tony Hill, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Jerry Leeson, Andrew McRae, Holly Raiche. Apologies: Gerry White Absent: Robert Gregory, Skeeve Stevens Existing Casual Vacancy on Board: It was moved by GA, 2nd CLO that Paul Brooks be nominated to fill the casual vacancy on the Board. Carried. Paul Brooks joined the meeting at this time. 2. Executive Elections: It was moved by RF, 2nd JL that Tony be nominated as President. TH accepted. As no other nominations were made, TH was declared President. It was moved by CLO, 2nd PB that NC be nominated as Vice President. PB Accepted. As no other nominations were made, NC was declared Vice President. It was moved by NC, 2nd GA that CLO be nominated as Secretary. CLO accepted. As no other nominations were made, CLO was declared Secretary. It was moved by NC, 2nd CLO that PB be nominated as Treasurer. PB accepted. As no other nominations were made, PB was declared Treasurer. The new Executive is: President: Tony Hill Vice President: Narelle Clark Secretary: Cheryl Langdon-Orr Treasurer: Paul Brooks The meeting noted that the filling the role of Minute Secretary should be discussed. It was agreed by NC, 2nd CLO that membership of the Board sub-committees are confirmed for the next 12 months. The membership is as follows: Revenue: PB, RF, CLO Remuneration: Board Executive It was moved by NB, 2nd JL that SIG membership be re-endorsed. Other Board members and ISOC-AU members generally are welcome as SIG members. The SIGs are: IPv6 - Chair TH Skills and Expertise - Chair Kevin Karp Accessibility - GA 3. Minutes of Previous Meeting It was moved by JL, 2nd RF that minutes of the October 5 Board meeting be confirmed. Carried It was moved by CLO, 2nd BP that the minutes of the October 20 Board meeting (that immediately followed the AGM) be confirmed. Carried. 4. Actions Arising/Carried Over from the Minutes 4.1 HR to liaise with KL on having newsletter on website as a compendium of meetings attended, submissions made, etc. - Ongoing 4.2 HR to continue to follow up with ACCAN on content filtering activities - Ongoing 4.3 Board resolved to support HR in liaising with Melb Conv Centre regarding APRICOT. HR reported she will be meeting with the Melb. Convention Centre on 12 November. HR has already said that ISOC-AU will not be contributing money, but will assist with completion of the application for the Melb. Convention Centre hosting APRICOT,with ISOC-AU as host as well. HR to report back to the next Board meeting on the outcome. 4.4 CLO to meet with another Director at Bendigo Bank Galston Gorge Branch to complete paperwork for allowing Bookkeeper online access to Society accounts. - AM volunteered to meet with CLO at the bank. 4.5 NC to liaise with prospective donors who previously had made offers of donation. Closed 4.6 HR, GA & NC to investigate member applications that have not been processed - ongoing. 4.7 CLO & NC to generate the text change for the online application submission process to be then submitted for quotation and approval from KL - ongoing 4.8 HR to contact AL re joint ISOC/ISOC-AU table at the IPV6 Summit - Closed. 4.9 RG to forward examples of David Goldstein's to rest of Board - Closed. 5. Reports (5 min) 5.1 Executive Director's Report - Accepted 5.2 Treasurer's Report - Accepted. The meeting moved a motion of thanks to CLO for her work as Treasurer 5.3 Revenue Sub-committee - no report 5.4 Sponsorship - no report 5.5 Remuneration Sub-Committee - no report. This Committee should meet by February. 5.6 Director's Representations PB reported meeting with the Newcastle Computer Pals seniors computer club on the Broadband Primer project CLO reported on being an interview subject, wearing her ISOC-AU hat, for Macquarie Univ. students NC is a member of the CommsAlliance TPC Code review A number of ISOC-AU directors attended the auDA-NZ awards dinner 6. Membership Issues 6.1 The meeting agreed that the Leaders of ISOC-AU SIGs should be eligible for membership of the ISOC Chapter-Delegates mailing list. Action item: HR to put Kevin Karp, as a SIG leader, on the Chapters-Delegates mailing list. 7. SIGs Report 7.1 IPv6 SIG - The IPv6 Summit was quite successful, with near record attendance and a very high level of sponsorship. TH noted that the APECTEL Minister’s meeting endorsed actions in respect of IPv6 7.2 S&E (Skills & Expertise) - no report 7.3 Accessibility & Usability - While there is no report, GA noted the APECTEL meeting endorsement of accessibility strategies and the ITU Plenipotentiary meeting resolutions supporting disability issues 8. Discussion 8.1 Review of progress by Directors in pursuit of their goals defined at the Strategy Day. RC identified his areas of interest/goals as including consumer rights, and in particular, privacy rights 9. Any Other Business 9.1: ISOC-AU submissions HR spoke to the paper circulated on submissions due that ISOC-AU should respond to, including to the DBCDE inquiry on the USO, with submissions due on 5 November, and the ACCC paper on NBN points of interconnection, with submissions due on 8 November. Action items: HR to recirculate notice to members on both inquiries, with suggested areas of response HR to send RC processes for making submissions 9.2 Circulation of the 'Broadband Primer' to ISOC-AU members The meeting discussed circulating the draft 'Broadband Primer' developed for the ACCAN project. The contract with ACCAN should first be checked. The agreement with ACCAN states that the final document should be available to all under a Creative Commons Licence. 9.3 TH reported head of ISOC Chapters, Anne Lord, saying that the ASIA chapters are the most numerous reporting to other chapters, and we are on top of that list. 9.4 All directors should have access to the documents on Google and to the ISOC-AU site on Google. Action items: HR to put new directors' email addressees on the list for google docs All to email their gmail account if they have one, for access to the ISOC-AU site 10. Next Meeting Tuesday December 7, 2010 CLO noted she will be an apology for this meeting The meeting closed at 7.05pm 11. Confirmation Signed as a correct and complete record of the above meeting. Tony Hill President, ISOC-AU