NCF Board of Directors
Minutes of Meeting
November 28, 2017
SOME HIGHLIGHTS
- New 10 gig routers installed in racks.
- NCF's VOIP system for office suffers outage.
- Good kick-off for Digital Access Day.
- Shelley, Bill and Andrew attended the ISP Summit in Toronto with
good take-away info.
- Shelley, Andre and Andrew attended the CA-IX (internet exchange)
meeting collocated with the ISP summit.
Minutes of a meeting of the Board of
Directors
The meeting was called to order at 7:00 p.m. with Peter Chapman as Chair
of the meeting and Graeme Beckett as Secretary.
INTRODUCTIONS
Board members present:
Peter Chapman (fx720) 1st Vice-Chair
Peter MacKinnon (fr198) 2nd Vice-Chair
Graeme Beckett (aw958) Secretary
Pete de Lepper
(fx621)
Jennifer Barrigar (bc839)
Lauren Gardner (fy923)
Regrets:
Christopher Cope (bz787) Chair
Martin Dubois (fl152)
Diana Cantu (fz160)
George Munoz (fz877)
NCF Management/Staff present:
Executive Director: Shelley Robinson
Guests:
None
Once around the table.
Informal pre-meeting conversation, with Directors taking
turn offering personal views and commentary on
interesting things that might not make it to the
Agenda.
- Confirmation of
Quorum
Quorum was confirmed.
- Review of the Agenda
Discussion item 5a "Name Change" was added.
MOTION: To accept agenda as amended.
Moved by:
Jennifer Barrigar (bc839)
Seconded by: Peter MacKinnon (fr198)
VOTE All in favor.
VOTE: Adopted
- Review of the Minutes of the Previous Meeting
MOTION: Motion to accept the minutes of November 4, 2017 as
circulated.
Moved by: Pete de Lepper
(fx621)
Seconded by:
Lauren Gardner (fy923)
VOTE All in favor.
VOTE: Adopted
-
Reports
- Executive Director's Report (Shelley Robinson)
Shelley distributed her ED report in advance of the
meeting for both the open and in-camera sessions of the meeting.
Select Highlights from ED Report
DSL MEMBERS:
As of October 1/17: 3266 members
As of November 1/17: 3275
As of November 27/17: 3281
Projection for November 30/17: 3285 members
(As of November 1/16: 3063 members)
(As of November 1/15: 2991 members)
Operations:
● DSL member subscriptions continue to increase week over week.
● The 10G routers and related equipment are installed in the
racks, notified members about upgrade service interruptions:
some dates still in flux.
● We had major problems with our office VOIP phone system: out
for the better part of three days – lots of notifications via
StartPage and social media, got basic voicemail service up after
two days.
● Switched VOIP providers, will evaluate system in the new year
once all 10G upgrades are complete.
Communications:
● Digital Access Day kick-off went very well, 70 people
registered, great feedback – day itself planned for early May
2018.
● Access = Skills = Opportunities launch went
well, 40 people attended, good feedback, nice mix of material
from NCF and ACORN.
● first A=S=O hands-on Ontario
Electricity Support Program (OESP) workshop planned for this
coming Wednesday, November 29th.
● Planning public
launch (inviting councillors, MPPs and MP) of A=S=O in March as
part of the Community Info-session for the Canada Learning Bond
(CLB) part of the project.
● Attended ISP Summit November 6-8 in Toronto with Bill
Robson and Andrew Martey Asare – lots of good takeaways,
presented at Lunch and Learn.
● NCF got good exposure during conference as I was on the
organizing committee, prominently thanked on the big screen
throughout the event.
● Attended CA-IX (internet exchange) meeting November 8/9
in Toronto with Andre Dalle and Andrew Martey Asare.
●
Attended Civic Tech meeting at ImpactHub with CompuCorps to get
a sense of the organization and start spreading the word about
Digital Access Day.
● Attended Centre for Social Enterprise Development (CSED)
Social Enterprise Unleashed conference with James Ouzas: also
tabled at the Social Enterprise marketplace to get the word out.
Lots of good content and opportunities to network.
●
Submitted proposal for Ontario Digital Inclusion Summit in
Toronto in February.
● Dropped off copies of the Anniversary book to all city
councilors, requesting meetings, and the Mayor, who wrote a nice
letter
● Our social media engagement with members seems to
be picking up, we should ensure we continue posting on a regular
basis
● Wrote a letter of support for the Ottawa PC Users’
Group nomination for a volunteering award based on their work
for us -- they are soon offering their 500th free digital
literacy workshop!
● We’ll be offering a VOIP workshop on January 24th, more
to follow
● Posted job for HelpDesk Analyst, Billing Support:
applications close December 1st
The above was the open portion/session of the Executive
Director's Report.
- In-Camera Portion of the Executive Director's Report
MOTION: To move in-camera.
Moved by: Jennifer Barrigar (bc839)
Seconded by: Pete de Lepper
(fx621)
VOTE All in favor.
VOTE: Adopted
MOTION: To move out of camera.
Moved by:
Jennifer Barrigar (bc839)
Seconded by: Pete de Lepper
(fx621)
VOTE All in favor.
VOTE:
Adopted
MOTION: To receive the Executive Director's
Report.
Moved by: Peter MacKinnon (fr198)
Seconded by:
Lauren Gardner (fy923)
VOTE All in favor.
VOTE: Adopted
-
Ongoing Business
-
Meridian e-Transfer (Shelley Robinson)
Jenn offered to draft a motion to authorize e-transfers once
we have sufficient information on limits and other details.
- New Business
- Name Change (Peter MacKinnon)
Peter MacKinnon tabled the following motion for
consideration and discussion at a future meeting.
MOTION: That the organization consider changing its name
along with a new design logo.
Moved by: Peter MacKinnon
(fr198)
- Announcements
The NCF holiday luncheon is December
20th, noon to three pm
- Date of Next Meeting
The next regular meeting will be
January 23, 2018
NCF Offices, Suite 206 Richmond Square, 1305 Richmond Rd.
- Adjournment
The meeting adjourned at 8:47pm.
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