The Global Scoutlink Council Meeting, 7^th  of June 2002

Who was present:

Country Coordinators

IRON[Fe26         Italy             
Nerilka            United States
Stoffel            deputy Holland            
Faona              Mexico
Ellie              Tech Team
Baloo_dk          deputy    Scandinavia
Mayra              Central America
Woody              Switzerland
Morfeus   Brasil

Who Was Apologized
Jabiru
Mike_uk  

1.        Canadian Country Coordinator
The Global Council ratified Nitie (Melissa Foster) as new Candain Country Coordinator. IRON[Fe26 will write her the official letter.

2.        Reports from Countries, #irchelp, #youth, JOTIteam, Techteam, #irc_help
Reports from Countries:
#espanol
CHANOPS
- zorro is working on #irc-help without problem, just when it's exams
time
- leon-amis is still out of line so insted of him I propose Scoutbuck
wich has been chanop before ans is back since two moths.
- wolverine have some little problems to be conected long time as
usual, this will be same for almost two moths more, he has been
promote at work and have lot of work to do
- the rest of chanops are still learning using Ellie's guide
JOTI 2000
- bucanero will be the coordinator for this year JOTI, he has the
idea of use the quizbot that has been used before for other channels
if it's available
- next month an invitation to join JOTI on scoutlink will be sended
to different country associations in order to have more participants
on #espanol
VARIOUS
- on the agenda that has been sended by IRON, is a little mistake:
it said : MX AND SOUTH AM mayra and CA for Faona
must said: RC for Mx and South America = Faona
RC for CA and Caribbe = mayra
- I think that our photos will be on line on this month. Mine is not
available, must take one at least for this.

USA:
- generally nothing has changed
- worked to hold elections for CA and to get nitie organized as a new CC
- talked with leon and bip and bobwhite about ways to burn cd's for
northam at minimal cost/effort to distribute
- contacted several websites with no/out of date info about scoutlink/joti
and asked them to update it and/or offered to provide them with new
content (e.g. USSSP)
- hassled various people about things related to northam

JOTI:
- contacting various teams to follow up on their 'assignments' and the
conclusions of those projects
(bot team, rota team, etc)
- following up with channel coordinators to ensure that they are making
progress (some channel coords are not reporting in and this may mean they
are having difficulties - more next month!)
-         contacting websites about out of date info (e.g. www.joti.org)

Brasil
As the last months, #portugues activities have been very stalled, without changes at all...
I'll mail UEB (Scouts Association from Brazil), to explain what is scoutlink... lets hope we got some good response, and if we can get more brazilian users

Holland
this is easy, not much has chanced. Like i mailed you
earlier we are invited to become an official partner with national scouting
organisation, but next meeting is in september. We are seeking a candidate
ircop among the chanops of dutch, as soon as we have found one, we will
present him (we dont have any female candidates) to council.
Dutch is still going strong, many ideas, lots of people, lots of argues,
ideas, etc. We are busy organising ourselves more and more, takes time, but
we are getting there.
We are officialy recognised as a partner in joti and more, so we think we
are in Holland at a point that we should ( or want to be) global. Lets hope
we can stay that way.

Docteam:
the team that is working on votingdoc, had a very fast start, they have
stopped at a surten point. Now the waiting is for a online meeting. Maddog
is very active in this and i hope he gets people moving. Like i told u
before, i dont have that much time to keep track of things in docteam. I
just monitor things.

United Kingdom
1 JOTI
I have been appointed by the UK Scout Association as assistant National
co-ordinator for JOTI. There will be a fact sheet prepared and available via
the Scout Asssoc web site & info centre. We have 2 x 1/2 page ads booked in
Scouting magazine.
This will all compliment the work Leon is doing on the CD, and will also
give us links from Scoutbase.org.uk

2 Scoutlink Co-ordinators for WJ 2007
Given a choice for this job I would choose choille or roger_uk not PomPom
(hes already doing the fellowship liason). I think it needs to be a UK
person, as you know I am a member of the core UK Scout association team for
WJ2007/Internet area and there will be an increasing number of meetings to
cover as we move towards 2007, so it makes sense for the co ScoutLink rep to
be able to attend the meetings
3 2005
There is to be a European jambo in 2005 as a trial run for WJ2007, we shall
run some but not all of our wj2007 internet activities in 2005
4 2007
Broad brush plans for both 2005 and 2007 are prepared (by myself and the
other 2 members of the core team) and now await the nod of approval from
higher up the Scout Assoc tree so we can flesh them out, and circulate them
more widely.

Scandinavia
The activities at channel #scandinavia has been very high in the month of
May.
More new visitors come by and most of the regulars are working on the Easter
camp 2003 IRC_scand and meet online to decide stuff.
This month has been the most active ScoutLink month offline ever in my
entire ³career².
On May 4th I drove cross-country to attend a meeting in my ³own² scout
organisation (there are 3 organisations in Denmark under WOSM and 2 under
WAGGS and 1 or 2 independent ones Š I think). It was a meeting that lasted
all day and all the district / division commissioners with international
affairs from all over the country was invited ­ and ScoutLink (me). It was a
meeting to improve international activities in scouting (the girls are
scouts in Danish language no offence to the WAGGS members) in KFUM-scouts,
Denmark. It was a good opportunity to let more people know that ScoutLink
exists Š too few people knows that in Denmark (and in rest of Scandinavia).
On May 9th to 12th I went to a Nordic Radio- and Internet scouting seminar.
It had participants from the National Jota/Joti Organizers in all 5
countries: Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. They also invited
ScoutLink. I was allowed to bring ChanOps to represent all relevant
countries ­ BUT only succeeded in bringing Wraith from Norway due to some
financial and ³political² difficulties in the local organisations. I myself
am still struggling with my ³own² organisation about financing my
participation (*BIG sigh*). The Nordic Radio- and Internet scouting seminar
was a big success and during the weekend I was able to prove to the NJO¹s
(National Jota/Joti Organizers) that ScoutLink is a great ³tool² for them ­
and that they should indeed use their RC. During the weekend I made
arrangements for a NEW ScoutLink channel. The Icelandic participants whished
for an Icelandic language channel (Icelandic is a very far cousin - if
Norwegian & Danish & Swedish are brothers ­ and Finnish is just happening to
be a neighbour no relation at all) and I made them a temporary JOTI channel
on the spot. I really think the Nordic Radio- and Internet scouting seminar
was a big step in the right direction for ScoutLink in my region.
Some of my work as RC has been sending out welcome letters to that load of
web registrations I get from mike_uk. I think the web registrations get more
and more. This is a sign of activity I really see a lot of, and I hope we
find a way for those registrations to be sent directly to the proper CC/RC
without human workload

Italy:
We produced the first 25 copies of Italian Scoutlink CD (version 1.0) and gave them out during a meeting of 400 leaders last may in Venice.

Tech team report for May can be found at...
http://www.elliesplace.org/TTCreport0502.htm 

2.0  Web registrations procedure
Global Council voted to forward the webregitrations direclty to CCs/Rcs and also for the creation of a databese where all the registrations may be stored.

3.0 updating of website
Global Council asked webteam to keep updated the website more often and in particular all outstanding updates will be completed before september. In addition, Global Council asked the webteam to create a public area where all documents could be stored. This will be organized with the help of an automatic script.  The webteam asked that a new method of requesting changes be used, including putting wsite in the subject of the email and clearly including the exact webpage address of what must be changed and all information for the changes.

4.0 New memebers for Teach Team
Global Countil ratified three new memebers of Tech Team
Morfeus from Brazil
- morf will be working with mega on the coding team and also working on a
major script to help with commands...formerly a job biff and leon were both
doing...
- morf will also be covering the US timezone that we have had trouble
covering...which will be covered for biff while he is tied up with his Navy
work...
Boomer from Ireland
- boomer will be working closely with leon to help lighten his load...and
also with the login parts of our new website... he will be covering the UK
timezones previously covered by kendod who is very tied up with college and
his life at the moment...
Electro_Geek from New Zealand
- Electro will be working directly on the techteam website a role which was being
worked on by kinglouis from ch... Kinglouis has been absent for a few months
popping in now and a gain to do what he could but has had major exams etc
also...
- Electro is currently looking at the major training script I have been
working on to make a standard chanop and ircop script to make commands
easier and he will be working a little with raydn to become more bot
proficient than he is already...
-Electro will be covering the AU/NZ timezones with myself which we know have
been stretched at times and will also become our youth member component in
#youth...

5.0 Again on idling rule/script
Global Council authorized Tech Team to develop a technical solution to users who use idling scripts and eventually kill/gline idle users on server. Following the request of a Country Coordinator it was voted again to keeping the idle rule at 5 hours

6.0 problems with users
For respecting the privacy of users this item is avaiable just behind request to your Country Coordinator or direclty to teh Secretary or Chair of Council.

7.0 other business
World Scout Jamboree 2007 in uk. This was delayed one month in hopes that Mike_UK can attend the meeting.  The names Roger_UK, , Choille, and Bip were put forward.

8.0 The log of conversation and the next meeting date
The log will be avaiable 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 next meeting will be July Friday 5^th  2002 at 22 GMT on #meetings channel

The Secretary                                                                                               The Chair
Davide Grisafi                                                                                              Bob Bristow

Abano Terme, june 9^th 2002