Internet Society of Australia
A Chapter of the Internet Society
ABN 36 076 406 801
The meeting started at 5:55pm AEDT on 11th December 2000 and took place by way of teleconference in accordance with the Articles of Association of the Society.
Attendance: Tony Hill, Tamzin Taylor, Gunela Asbrink, David Thompson, Greg Watson, Leni Mayo, Anne Greiner, Kate Lance, Andrew McRae, George Michaelson, George Fong..
Greg Watson nominated by Kate Lance and seconded by George Fong. Accepted by Greg. No other nominations. Greg Watson declared elected President.
Andrew McRae nominated by Greg Watson and seconded by Leni Mayo. Accepted by Andrew McRae. No other nominations. Andrew McRae declared elected Vice-President.
Anne Greiner nominated by Kate Lance. Accepted by Anne and seconded by Greg Watson. No other nominations. Anne declared elected Honorary Treasurer.
George Fong nominated by Leni Mayo and seconded by David Thompson. Accepted by George. No other nominations. George Fong declared elected Honorary Secretary.
The new President, Greg Watson took the Chair and gave thanks to Kate Lance for her enormous efforts and the contributions she made as President.
Greg Watson put a motion that an Audit Committee, headed up by the Treasurer, be set up. The motion was seconded by Leni Mayo. Passed unanimously.
Proposal to accept the draft minutes for November as a true and correct record. Proposed: Kate Lance, Seconded: George Fong, motion passed unanimously.
Erica article postponed to next year.
David Thompson Academy role for ISOC-AU keeping a watch and look on it to be removed from the Action List
George Fong Approach to Vice Chancellors Ballarat and Bendigo. This has been done and it will now be necessary to tee up times with Tony (ongoing).
George Fong Contact with the Age for articles (done) and follow up with the Age for a regular monthly spot.
George Fong Privacy Policy (ongoing). A fresh draft should be available for the next Board Meeting.
Kate Lance organisational matters for the AGM: done.
Leni Mayo the Internet Pioneer awards (ongoing). Len explained to the new board what it was all about. Tamzin Taylor volunteered to assist.
George Fong - Advanced Network Program George F and Simon now. George Fong to discuss this with Simon.
Tony Hill/Anne Greiner follow up on membership
George Fong to write up the minutes in HTML.
A motion was put to accept the audited 1999/2000 results and the Financial report thereof.
Proposed by Kate Lance, seconded by David Thompson. The motion was passed unanimously.
There was some discussion about GST Status. and whether the Society was making a 'supply' as defined under the legislation.
A written report was provided for period ending 20 December 2000.
Tony Hill indicated that there had been a number of activities related to the organisation of the ICANN meeting in March 2001. Tony also indicated that our inaugural industry advisory council meeting had taken place. Other activities included discussions with existing and potential sponsors, the ISOC-AU Directors' Strategy Day and members events in Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne. In terms of sponsors, Tony pointed out that 8 new sponsors had signed up and some others had increased their levels of sponsorship.
Action: Jobs Mailing List
Tony reported that four companies have taken organisational membership and that SAIA, Melbourne PCUG had joined.
Tony reported that he had successfully had an article published in the Platform section of the Age thanks to assistance from George F.
Membership and Renewals: As far as
memberships were concerned, Tony reported that the processing of the same was
now up to date. A number of members had yet to renew and a second reminder had
been sent. Tony led some discussion with regard to expanding the
membership.
Action: Smart Internet Technology CRC - arrange discussion with John Fick
Tony pointed out that in the
short term, administrative arrangements were adequate but longer term solutions
needed to be developed.
Joint Action Items:
Derek Whitehead talking about the
Digital Divide Conference. Gary Hardy is an apology.
Derek Whitehead is an ISOC-AU member
and is engaged in a number of notable activities including chairing of auDA
Names Panel. He is also a board member for Net Alert. Dereks background
included senior roles in the State Library and Vicnet; he is currently at
Swinburne University of Technology.
Derek made the following points in relation a proposal for ISOC-AU to
auspice the 2001 Community Conference.The annual Community Conference
in Ballarat one was one of the most successful. Some of the
inputs are that Gary Hardy and Larry Stillman spoke at a conference in
Barcelona. Ideas of a civil society etc seemed to be a good one. ISOC-AU
involvement seemed natural to them.
Gary proposed some of the structures,
funding etc. and has built a financial model.
Tony was keen to put forward
something for minimum risk relationship like the ICANN model.
The building blocks of the conference
include Vicnet-Skillsnet, other close to the ground community networking bodies.
Skillsnet roadshow. Migrant resource centres. Vicnet has had strong emphasis on
disability, and also
using the Internet in a multilingual context. Conferences have drawn on the
unis, who have had a different experience. Also regional centres and regional
conferences, the industry, training especially ACFE.
The last community conference was auspiced by CIVIC, which used to be the
Citizens Advice Bureaux. ISOC-AU would represent another building
block. A blend of technical and social backgrounds has been the order of the day
for these conferences.
Derek was thanked by Tony Hill for his presentation.
Action: Tony to prepare a proposal for ISOC-AU to auspice the 2001 community conference.
There was a brief discussion on the publication of articles for ISOC-AU
A few bills had come in:
Ψ Zurich Insurance work cover
Ψ Bill for the ISOC-AU T-shirts
Ψ Bill from Tony Hill for the ACTCOSS conference.
We need to get a NAB change of signature form .
The meeting closed at 7:40pm. Next meeting is on 29th January 2001.
Greg Watson
President, ISOC-AU