ROCKNET MEETING MINUTES
July 11, 2002
The meeting was held in the City Manager's Conference room.
The meeting was called to order at 7:34 pm.
In attendance were: Brian Pierce, Stan Klein, Jim Beller, Bob Ekman, Betsy
Robbins, Roald Schrack, and Ben Pauwels
1. The minutes of June 13 were accepted with minor revisions.
2. Betsy reported on:
* The new City Hall phone system is about to go on line. All numbers will
now have a 240 exchange.
* Rock Enroll went live with new capabilities.
* Work is progressing on the ability to do permitting on line.
* Historic topics and Community Services are being added to.
* Search capability on the city site is being worked on. Ben Pauwels said
he had a program ready to go and would send it to Betsy the next day. (He
did and it worked)
* Statistics for the city and Rocknet sites were distributed. Penetration
is about the same as last month.
* Lyris Gold 5.0 was purchased. This has a listserve capability for 10,000
names. There was some discussion of updating as soon as the new versions
were available but going ahead with this version even though the archive
function is less user friendly than is desired.
3. Bob Ekman reported on Rocknet site developments.
* Bob asked if someone could check on the medical emergency number now
listed on Rocknet to see if they are still corrrect. Jim Beller volunteered.
* Rocknet is assessed with a $1500 value by the county. This would lead to
a $30 tax. Beller reported that if we answered 10 questions that had been
sent to Rocknet, the tax would be waived. Bob said that he would reply as
soon as possible.
* At the last meeting it was requested by R. Schrack that a nonlisted web
page be set up on Rocknet to serve as a communications board for the League
of Women Voters. This was done and is now being used to list the 214
candidates and the progress for each candidate for the use of those working
on the League DNet web page.
4. Stan Klein gave an extended report on a workshop on U.S. National Policy
for Accelerating Broadband Development held by the IEEE-US Committee on
Connecting and Information Policy at the Cosmos Club. Following this there
was a discussion of the feasibility of Rocknet presenting forums on broadband.
The names of several people that might be available to head up the effort
were suggested. Bob Ekman will follow up on it.
The meeting closed at 9:30pm
Respectfully submitted:
Roald A. Schrack
13 Farsta Ct.
Rockville, MD 20850
voice: 301-279-7017
fax: 301-279-8889
