Monthly Meeting Tues 5 th December 2006

PRESENT

Pete Matt T Jim Rich Everton Lloyd Sean Andy

APOLOGIES

Woodsy Chris P Ben Julien Matt L Sam

MINUTES

Minutes of the last meeting approved.

MATTERS ARISING

• Public Website : Consensus (Rich proposed, Pete agreed) is that new beta website is good, and should be rolled out on the main website as soon as possible.
• Memorandum of Understanding : Postponed to the next meeting foreveryone to read (?KnowleWestWeb).

REPORTS

• Expression of Interest : Our bid was liked. The hardware provider is ?CitySpace due to their "free to end-user" policy. We need to speak to ?CitySpace about how we could possibly meet the needs of this bid. Pete will arrange a meeting with ?CitySpace, to include Lloyd, and Rich, preferably before Christmas. An approach to SWERDA was made for funding this project, which should probably go on hold until we've spoken to ?CitySpace.
• Digital Challenge : No known problems with this at the moment. Two of the top people organising the Digital Challenge came to visit the city, including Knowle. It appears one of the people (Steve Dodson) may be against wireless technologies. We need to find out what other previous projects have failed on, and how we can avoid this. Management will be tightly controlled for this project. A DVD is being made about the Connecting Bristol bid, and they wish to film people from Bristol Wireless, and some of our LTSP-enabled locations (Princess Royal Gardens).
• Technical Management Committee : Bugzilla is being tested as a bug tracking tool. Mike is pushing the new Documentation Project, which is advancing well. There has been an issue with server restriction miscommunication, which is now resolved. It has been decided that the management will decide who needs access to the core routers. A list should be provided to the management committee, which will then be approved. All agreed this was a sensible solution.

AOB

• Bristol Wireless T-Shirts : Lloyd belives the T-Shirts being produced should be cheap for the DVD. Sam and Ben believe that we should get the best within budget. All agreed to leave it to Sam.
• Media Store : Allows you to setup an online bookshop. We define what books we sell, the discount rate, and make profit on the books we sell. This allows us to define a list of useful books that are applicable to our project, which saves people looking on Amazon (or similar) for useful books.
• Dorkbot Bristol : Tuesday 12th December, at 20:30 in St Werburgh's Community Centre.