Council Minutes December 2005

Minute of the last Council Meeting are:

 

Friday 2nd December 2005.

 

Present:          roger-uk, Radar, Nele, Uncrafty, Mayra, Jabiru, Falcon-TW, Coxswain, Ananas, Woody, Ellie, Aerolife.

 

Apologies :     Doomer, Grandpa, Doc, Tinge

 

Item 1 – Scoutlink Docs – Clause 1.

 

Discussion took place and the amendments put forward by Jabiru and Holgi were accepted.

 

Council then voted unanimously to accept Clause 1.

 

Copy of this clause is stored (until whole document is completed) at

 

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/roger.woods/Scoutlinkdocs/Clause1.htm

 

 

Item 2- Publicity and Advertising of Scoutlink.

 

An email had been received from AP-128, ender, Paul, Theodwyn and X4knat regarding the advertising and publicity of Scoutlink. They felt that a group should be created to seek, evaluate and present publicity material showing that Scoutlink was open 24/7 and its benefits.

 

It was agreed to let them go ahead with roger-uk acting as Council Liaison. All material produced must be agreed by Council and then it would be up to individual CC’s and RC’s as to how they use it

 

Agreed unanimously.

 

Item 3 – Brazilian CC elections.

 

Decided to postpone until a candidate came forward.

 

Item 4 – CC/RC Elections.

 

Roger-uk was verified as the UK CC after his successful re-election.

 

Election plan is:

 

2005 – AU NZ ASIA SCAN CH

 

2006 – BR ESx2 TW US FI EE

 

2007 – DE IT CA NL BE FR DE IT

 

2008 - UK

 

  • Roger-uk will organise AU elections
  • Jabiru will organise the Asia elections
  • Woody will get someone to sort out CH elections
  • Roger-uk will do NZ after Au.
  • Email Tinge to ask to sort out SCAN elections

 

Agreed that the election for Council Chair and Secretary be postponed until January meeting.

 

Item 5 – JOTI Jubilee – Scoutlink History.

 

Discussed and decided to seek a volunteer from Council to organise an dto discusse via Email.

 

Item 6 – Jensm.

 

Item was postponed to last item.

 

Item 7 – other "internet services"

 

Besides irc, like teamspeak, voip, video etc. What is our statement, do we support them? if we do, who coordinates/is responsible for such activities etc. (scouting.nl wants to know because of jota-joti 2006/2007 etc)

 

Much discussion took place and as it was such a big issue Jabiru was volunteered to see details and to initiate a discussion by email and report back to Council.

 

Postponed item 6 – Jensm.

 

Jensm had been emailed and a letter sent to his address but no response.

 

Much discussion took place and it was decided unanimously that Council would:

 

  1. Make the gline longer and remove any rights
  2. Inform his Scout Association
  3. Inform our own team
  4. Inform Holgi what we have done
  5. Tell Jens what we have done

Jabiru thanked Council for a difficult job well done and the result shows that Scoutlink takes protection issues seriously and can act quickly and effectively.

 

Chairman and Secretary will action 1 through to 5 between them.

 

Any Other Business,

 

Age of ops and Tech Team.

 

At last meeting ages were discussed and agreed that Channel ops should be >16 and IRCops/CC’s >18 but Tech Team were not included.

 

There was much discussion and it was eventually agreed that apart form CC’s/RC’s who must be over 18 the minimum age for ops would be left up to the CC/RC concerned.

Carried unanimously.

 

A long and complicated meeting was then closed at 00.39

 

Next meeting is on Saturday 7th January 2006 at 22.00 GMT.