[Computerbank] Dec Agenda

Penni Diffey moose at artificial-stupidity.net
Sun Dec 22 22:12:45 UTC 2002


Hi All
finally the Dec agenda

Pen
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Agenda Dec 2002
Minutes of Previous 2 meetings

Business Arising from Minutes
 - Sun
 - Grant and Kylie Mediation
 - Final form of Affiliate contract
 
 Reports
 President
 Vic
 SA
 Qld
 
 Item 1
  Trish's email to the list re: that niggling AGM question - It still looks 
like we have no formal resolutions on this so we need to discuss this at the 
meeting. I am hoping that interested members will attend the IRC meeting.

The only Rule that seems to cover the situation we faced is the Rule which requires 3 days notice for a committee meeting. I have been unable to find any other Rule which applies. It should be noted that the conduct of the meeting participants, in this case, doesn't effect the legality of the meeting.Pen

Item 2
- CAI Members to be able to participate (not vote) at CAI-National Meetings. 
I have noticed that recent CAI - National Meeting Agenda announcements now 
say "observers are welcome but can not participate." I would like to 
know why this is and wish to challenge this on the basis that it is 
detrimental to members having a voice. 
( This refers to them not being able to vote )

Item 3
Notification of Meetings - I would like to see notification of CAI-National 
Meetings on the computerbank list on a regular basis.
Secretary's fault I'll rectify from this notification - P

Item 4
Committee mailing list - ensuring new members added:)

Item 5
 Dan from NSW asked me to make sure (he thinks Craig will but jic) that 
we get his membership ratified, and his position as NSW Coordinator/Convenor 
(what is the title atm?) is also ratified.

Item 6
build/distro - Romana

Item 7
xmas break?

Item 8
Staff holidays

It is important that the State Convenors ensure that the paid Staff have holidays each year.
Should it be enforced?

Item 9
Other Business.

That's definitly enough for one night.

See you tomorrow night 

Pen

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>From romana at timelady.com Sun Dec 22 21:10:40 2002
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 14:28:50 +0930
From: Romana Challans <romana at timelady.com>
Reply-To: cai-committee at lists.linux.org.au
To: CAICommittee <cai-committee at lists.linux.org.au>,
     CAISA <cai-sa at cbnsw.org.au>
Subject: [CAI-committee] December report

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Heyho all:) Time for updates on whats happening with CAI-SA - last one for 
2002:)

Volunteers:
Welcome to new volunteer Hilary. For those who came to the installfest, you 
will remember Hilary as the cheerful guy who lent a hand to everyone - even 
with some severe car issues arising!

Members:
No news there - remember folks, we have some memberships needing renewal in 
beginning February, and next year will not see reminders issued - unless 
someone wants to get clever with databasing and automagical reminders:)
Last reminders peeps:)
Robert B, end of December.
Barry and Cam, 4th January.
Dale and Shaun, 30th January.
Everyone else, please check:)

Recipients & Enquiries:
Two forms sent out in last few weeks. 
Four recipients for November/December processed (two received boxen, two 
booked for 21 & 23 Dec). Backlog now down to four, all have been 
contacted/left messages/retrying frequently. Boxes available for them when 
they get back to us!:)

Income & Expenditure:
The $5000 seed money from CAI has been transferred to our account from the 
main branch. The budget basically has this money allocated for rent, projects 
and expenses for the the first six months of 2003. We will really need to 
continue to look at as many avenues of fundraising as possible. 

Jennifairy and Romana did some upgrade and repair work on a computer using 
CAISA resources, and earnt CAISA $120. Yay.
We are selling cdroms and soundcards to recipients as we have them. There is 
$15.00 here from one sale, and a further $20.00 from a soundcard/cdrom sale 
on Saturday. This will add a further $35.00 to the bank account next week:)
Therefore we have income of $155 to add to the bank balance of $5060.00.
So cash assets before expenses this month:
 $5215.00

We are ordering 10 monitor cables from Tandys in Mt Barker, at $7.00 each, as 
need for monitors is DIRE. Jennifairy, Romana and Dylan are still owed money 
for stationery and other expenses - we have limited it to $20 each, even 
though we all personally have spent far more than that:).
So expenses this month:
$110.00

Balance for December: $5105.00.


Premises:
AND NOW FOR THE FUN BIT:)
In WAY serious negotiations with The Hut Community Centre, Aldgate, for a 
reasonable sized room and probable cellar storage. This would allow us to 
implement the WFTD scheme two days a week, and have another three for 
volunteers, meetings, etc. Room for workbenches etc. Nice light room - ADSL 
available, networked through wall, they have fax facilities (pay per sheet), 
and will provide their pabx facilities for answering purposes etc...expansion 
possibilities and joint projects there too:)
http://www.ahc.sa.gov.au/comm/hut.html

WFTD:
(Via WFTD Coord, Cromwell)
Interview with a CWC officer suggests our venture is most promising, and that 
after some preliminary administrivia, there is every chance of starting the 
WFTD program of 8 participants mid February;  he is allready liaising with 
the relevant authorities on our behalf.  The Hut have communicated that this 
will be a suitable time frame to formalise the decision to take us on 
onboard.  Everything looks like it's falling into place.

Projects:
East Timor - (Project coordinator, Peter Gossner)
See Pete's comprehensive email of 18/12 for updates and info.

Special Stuff:
We are trying to persuade Jill Gossner, talented graphical artist and partner 
of our own beloved Pete the Hardware God to design flyers, donator 
certificates, and posters (to go up in places like Centrelink and Employment 
Options etc)

General News:
We are holding off end of year/xmas party as it looks like premises so close, 
may be worth just holding 'welcome to premises' party anyway:)

Aliases:
The following aliases have been created:
 enquire at sa.computerbank.org.au
 support at sa.computerbank.org.au
 donate at sa.computerbank.org.au
and will go onto web site asap.
New ones will be:
treasurer at sa.computerbank.org.au
coordinator at sa.computerbank.org.au
volunteer at sa.computerbank.org.au
and will go to appropriate person.
Anyone else wanting one, please contact me and suggest, with reason why you 
need it. These will not be for anything other than CAISA business, not for 
personal email use, however.

XMAS BONUS:
Latest Knoppix CDs - if there is sufficient interest, we will be selling these 
for $2.00 each as a fundraiser - every little bit helps:)
Wonderful chrissy presents - free family from the tyranny of windows NOW!

Of course, we encourage EVERY volunteer/member to get involved, so if you feel 
you want to participate in any of these very time consuming busy jobs, 
please, join in! Contact me or any project coordinator. Start a project. Find 
our what coordinator roles need filling. Suggest a coordinator role. 
GET INVOLVED at a higher level than just the fun of hardware;)

r:)
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Romana Challans
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State Convenor
Computerbank Australia Incorporated, SA Branch
http://www.computerbank.org.au/

'Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.'
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>From mailkylie at optushome.com.au Sun Dec 22 21:09:48 2002
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 22:02:54 +1100
From: Kylie Davies <mailkylie at optushome.com.au>
Reply-To: cai-committee at lists.linux.org.au
To: cai-committee at lists.linux.org.au
Subject: [CAI-committee] Report for November and December 2002

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HI there all,

Below is the VIC SC report for November and December 2002.

I will present a run down of finances at the CAI-National Meeting on Monday 
night. 

Cheers,

Kylie 

--
Kylie Davies
Victorian Branch Coordinator
Computerbank Australia Inc

CAI-Vic Report for November / December 2002.

Systems Out 

November  29 
December  16

CAI-Vic has progressed considerably with network builds. We have finished 
and delivered the network for the Autism Congress (5 systems and network 
printer) and we planned to deliver the Menieres Support Group (MSG) systems. 

We ran into more network problems (problems with MIT cookies) and this 
delayed the delivery of the network to the MSG. 

The MSG and the Healseville Retirement Village have been calling quite 
regularly to find out when their networks will be ready. The networks had 
been promised (and the groups had attended training) over 2 months ago. 
Grant called both groups to explain the difficulties we were experiencing and 
that we would deliver them as soon as we could.

Thanks go to Julien Goodwin for solving the MIT cookie issues. Thanks also go 
to Tim, Grant and Graham for designing, building, and persisting with the MIT 
cookie issue. 

We plan to deliver the MSG network early in the New Year. We will build and 
deliver the Healesville Network in the New Year. 

Thanks go to Grant, Jaymz, Cloud, Rob, Penni and me for the wizz-bang Network 
rollout at the Melbourne Convention Centre for the World Autism Congress. For 
more information check out http://www.autismcongress.com/chat/chat.htm - this 
is what the network is primarily being used for.  

User Support November 

1 monitor issue with plugs
2 USB printer info 
3 soundcard config issues
1 staroffice file saving problems
1 cd/snd config
1 hdd cable disconnected
1 computer blew up at power supply
1 config printer
1 install and configure netscape plugins
2 hard drive full issues
2 ISP config issues
1 forgot password
1 ISP config
1 Kmail issues
1 mouse issues

User Support December 

2 root password issues
1 reconfigure X 
1 browser misconfiguration
1 X wont start issues - unresolved
1 Internet / mail / browser issues
1 Keyboard converter required
1 unknown inhouse support
1 hard disk full issues
1 unknown phone support
1 help with laptop installation of desktop penguin
1 rescue disk and rescue system
1 attempt at support but client had installed windows

New Volunteers

November 10 new faces
December 2 new faces

Training Delivered in November 

38 Regular 3 hour 
2 One on One
8 Show Me How

Training Delivered in December 

3 Regular 3hour training
4 One on One
10 Show Me How

Recycling 

November 1 Pickup
December 2 Pickups 

Donations in November 

We received donations from around 10 individuals this month. It is hard to 
take stock of this as sometimes donation deliveries are not getting recorded. 
We will be implementing better systems in the New Year to deal with this. 

We heard from the MFB but we are yet to pick up the computers. 

Donations in December 

Around 5 systems were donated from Individuals (one system a P233, and one 
had 96 MB RAM)). We also picked up 31 P166/233's from Eastwood Primary School 
in East Ringwood. All of the systems have CD/SND. We are expecting to pick up 
some more systems (6) from Melbourne Uni this week.  

General News for November and December

I have been unwell during November/December and my reports have not been 
timely during this time. The Victorian Treasurer has been working quite a lot 
lately and due to being unwell I have not been able to do the work either. I 
plan to look at this next week and will report as soon as possible.  

We are still facilitating the placement of computers in the South Pacific, we 
are currently assisting with computer placements in Papua New Guinea and East 
Timor. Our role involves sending software, documentation and training manuals 
as well as facilitating links between ANZ branches to Rotary groups in South 
Pacific Regions where computers will become available. 

We had our End of Year BBQ and Volunteer Awards in the Flagstaff Gardens. 
This was a great day (the weather was beautiful) and many volunteers were 
rewarded for their hard work and efforts. This was followed by a fundraiser 
trivia night - where we raised $90. A fun night was had by all with the 
winning team being "JJR" (Julian, John, Reuben, and Dean) by one point.  Well 
done guys!

CAI-Vic will be closed from December 21st and we will reopen on Wednesday 
January 8th 2003 (Time TBA). 

I would like to wish all Computerbank Victoria volunteers and friends a happy 
and safe holiday season. Thanks for all your hard work, commitment and 
dedication during 2002. 

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