The Global Scoutlink Council Meeting, 14th of september 2001

Who was present:

Country Coordinators

Jabiru Australia
IRON[Fe26 Italy 
Fips_de Germany
Nerilka United States
Baloe_BE Belgium
No-use Holland
Ispy Canada
Tinge Scandinavia
Falcon_tw Taiwan

Leon For TT

Apologies

Mike_uk
Coxswain
Tabaqui was replaced by no-use 
Ernie_nl was replaced by Leon

1.0 Ratify of New Country coordinator of Switzerland
Fips_de presented to the Council the results of the election for new Country coordinator in switzerland. Although all users of De mailing list gave a vote for Woody, he got 9 votes from CH users ( Yes:9 No:0 Blank:1 ). Anyway The Council ratified his position as new CC. He will replace Luchs in this work. Still no idea/solutions for Austria coordination.He will join the council with Global Op rights.

2.0 General situation of network: a report from TechTeam: question time about:
2.1- JOTI-Help-BOTs
Leon apoke on behalf if the tech team. He said that TT isn't against these help bots that can help in the channels during Joti, but anyone who wants to experiment the bots have to write a note to TT and do trials in test channels and not on the main channels. In other words the testing of the bots should not be done in a way as to disrupt the normal use of the channel;

2.1 - offers of help to techteam, and utilization of all resources available
Global Council noticed that in some cases there was somebody that offered to help Tech Team in its work but there wasn't any answer to that offer. Leon told the council that untill now they didn't get any official offer anyway he told also that they are interested to accept these offers in the future; it is clear that who gives help not necessairly will become a new member of TT;

2.2 - status of all servers; temp servers for JOTI
Here we can count on a secondary server offered from Woody, one from Deutch Telekom; an e.mail with IRC server requirements will be sent to theteam mailing list;

2.3 - mailserver migrations
Scoutlink.net mail server (theteam and techteam mailing lists are also installed there, whith other lists waiting to install ) is running now on Leeuwarden server; then another possibility would be to use gerben's server as a secondary mail server, and maybe another one. Troubles will be sorted within a week.

3.0. Situation about Rules and general fact sheets 
The Rule workshop ( IRON[Fe26 - Tabaqui - Tinge ) wrote a little document with general rules. It is available as an attachment on the council mailing list. It will be cleaned for language by Jabiru and posted when ready. Everybody CC's can express eventually their opinion about it usign Council list but only for little changes. Mike's fact sheet hasn't ready yet. When the work will be finished he will send that via list.

3.1 Situation about inactive globals/CC's/eventually new CC's 
First problem was the #espanol situation. Here we have an inactive CC ( IK ) and another IRCop ( Faona ) that can't take part to the meetings because of her work schedule. More Faona has many troubles to understand the help files for using the new services and so basically often #espanol is out of control. IRON[Fe26 offered to contact Faona and to offer her his help for the explanation of basic commands. To the other side IK was replaced from IRCop to Global OP. His position of CC is still confused. We can say that espanol hasn't an official coordination anymore. An urgent solution is requested for sort this problem. Anyway Jabiru will apply some pressure on ik to at least share the responsibility for latin america. Cols o-line will be deleted ( after his resignations ) after Joti;

The council approved the nomination of Nerilka and AK-eagle as new IRCOPs for covering the time zone of United States. 

3.1 #Jambo - appointing new chanops.
There was discussion about a process to choose and appoint chanops for #jambo, because it's hard to define the community of that channel. It was decided to leave it to the CCs of the majority of the users to work together to ensure that there are enough chanops for each time zone.

4. Joti planning 
Joti planning will be developed using the list. In case of necessity a special meeting will be organized within 10 days on #council ( the 24th of september 21 GMT ) . The eventual convocation will be sent via Council mailing list. 

11. The log of conversation 
The log will be available for all members of the council behind request to the secretary. The outcomes of the meeting will be published in a web site by the Chair.

The Secretary The Chair
Davide Grisafi Bob Bristow

Abano Terme, september 2001 the 18th