Saturday March 5, 2005

present - Jabiru, louvix, roger-uk, AK-Eagle, Uncrafty, Ellie, doc, falcon_tw, Nairobi  D-IT, mayra, tinge, Leon, Kerbe  D-FI, Grandpa, doomer_be, Faona

regrets – woody

Not represented - BR DE NZ CH

Old Business

1. World Thinking Day was very quiet. Council confirmed the procedure for granting o-lines to people; A coordinator will request ircops through CCs who will pass the request to the TT (reminded by confusion for Baloo-nl's o-lines for WTD) Suggestions to publicize the event more and sooner. Endorsed need for more communication.

2. Recommendation that all Council members formally appoint a deputy and this record will be kept by the secretary. Council members have been asked to complete by the next meeting.

3. SL Services proposal - A sub committee was directed to consider "the proposal of a member controlled network". The following was determined:

“The first and most important thing we all agreed with that we needed to have in place some safety implementations without appearing to be restrictive.

From that I have the following proposals:

1. Limited access without Private chat and DCC and then full access after a period of time or two regular scout linkers vouch for you.

2. Logging everything on Scoutlink and using filters to pick out bad language and practices.

3. Logging and warning on all Private messages what should not be done.

4. Compulsory nick registration via CC. Once registered, a user will have full access. Without registration, no Private messages or DCC’s allowed.

5. That all persons holding office or privileges on the Scoutlink Network will:

a. Identify themselves to their Country Coordinator with bona fide papers, e.g. drivers licence, passport, birth certificate, etc

b. Be a member of a Scout (or Guide) Association, OR be a recent past member of good standing (i.e. not expelled for bad behaviour) OR be eligible to be a member of a Scout (or Guide) Association.  The onus of proof is on the person, not Scoutlink.

c. Scoutlink maintain a central registry of SL "staff", and Country/Regional Coordinators maintain a registry of their own team. These registries must be used for ScoutLink purposes only.

6. Country Coordinators and RC will cause a registry of regular (voting) chatters to be maintained. The chatters will be asked to identify themselves. CC, RC (and their teams) should encourage new chatters to identify who they are, and where they come from, etc etc, and to be registered.

Jabiru motioned: that Council vote to accept points #1,2,3,4 subject to TT's report on how they can be done. Roger-uk seconded.

Not carried.

Leon motioned: that TT look into ways of implementing options 1 to 4, and report back at April's meeting on what can and cannot be done. Once there is a feasibility report from TT, then Council can make a decision. Uncrafty seconded. Motion amended to May meeting. Carried.

Roger-uk motioned: that Council accept point #5 and implement it immediately. AK-Eagle seconded. Carried.

Jabiru motioned: That Council accept point #6. AK-Eagle seconded. Carried.

4. Ratification of Teddy- as new IRCOP for one year.  Carried

5. O-lines for JOTI-CO - Leon motioned: The JOTI-Coordinator will have an o-line for the duration of their position as Joti-co to assist in completion of duties required. AK-Eagle seconded. Carried

New Business

1.Website - Comments mentioned included: need more active content, info about who's who, list of CCs, list of TT, organizational chart, links to language pages, addition of cgi:irc chat, access for CCs to update site, or who to contact. Doc will contact Stoffel with the webteam for more information.

2. Response to complaint by Baloo_nl in the fall - His complaint concerned another user who he felt was ignoring him and accusations of unfair behaviour. Secretary directed to respond with apology for late reply but to state that no action will be taken as "ignoring [someone] is no crime".

3. SL Mailing lists - Comments that it seemed that "bounced" mails were not acted upon. This will be sent to TT to confirm if there is actually a problem.

Business from the Mail-list

Next meeting scheduled for Friday, April 1, 2005 2200 GMT.