Dates for VONIC AGM

[Jeff Davis]

Here are some possible dates for the VONIC annual general meeting:

Wednesday, June 10, 7:00 PM
Thursday, June 11, 7:00 PM
Saturday, June 13 (day or evening)

I'd suggest having the meeting at Spartacus Books -- it's accessible,
it's an appropriate size for the AGM, and it's available on all those
days so far. We've also had other meetings there before.

Any preferences for time/place?

Some additional notes:

- All attendees can speak at the AGM, but you have to be a member to
vote.

- If you want to submit a resolution for consideration at the meeting,
please send it to the list as soon as possible. Members need to be
notified of any pending resolutions at least 14 days prior to the
AGM.

- None of the current directors of the co-op will be standing for
re-election, so we will need at least 3 people to run for the Board.
You don't have to decide in advance (you can be nominated at the
AGM), but you might want to start thinking about it.

Jeff Davis
VONIC

[humble]

Openweb Vancouver is June 11 & 12th. CarFree Vancouver day is June 14.
I would suggest the best of the proposed dates is Wednesday, June
10th.

http://www.openwebvancouver.ca/
http://www.carfreevancouver.org/

~s

[Transition Strategist (Greg)]

June 10th works well for me.

On May 13, 9:52 am, humble <Scott.Bernhard.Nel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Openweb Vancouver is June 11 & 12th. CarFree Vancouver day is June 14.
> I would suggest the best of the proposed dates is Wednesday, June
> 10th.
>

> http://www.openwebvancouver.ca/http://www.carfreevancouver.org/

[Bradley]

I can make that date too

On May 13, 12:41 pm, "Transition Strategist (Greg)"

[Mike West]

what is the deadline for resolutions then?

I hope we can get some good discussion before then. Things that I am
personally interested in:
1) Community Fibre....i mean Olympic Fibre
2) Speaking Out Against Net Neutrality
3) Eliminating Open Source software from our principles
4) Local Apps & Content

[Jeff Davis]

On 05/14/2009 09:49 AM, Mike West wrote:
> what is the deadline for resolutions then?

If we have the AGM on June 10th, and it sounds like we are, then
resolutions would have to be formally sent out to the membership no
later than May 27.

> I hope we can get some good discussion before then. Things that I am
> personally interested in:
> 1) Community Fibre....i mean Olympic Fibre

I don't think we can call it Olympic fibre unless we displace and
criminalize the poor and homeless while we install it, construct a
billion-dollar security apparatus to "protect the cables," and end up $6
billion in debt. :)

> 2) Speaking Out Against Net Neutrality

This would be a good conversation to have. Net neutrality: a necessary
form of regulation to protect the free exchange of ideas, or an
ineffective panacea that keeps us from talking about who ought to own
our communications infrastructure in the first place?

> 3) Eliminating Open Source software from our principles

Heh.

> 4) Local Apps & Content

Would be nice to have this stuff, but we need a network first...

Jeff

[Mike West]

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Jeff Davis <je...@textsfornothing.com> wrote:
>
> On 05/14/2009 09:49 AM, Mike West wrote:
>> what is the deadline for resolutions then?
>
> If we have the AGM on June 10th, and it sounds like we are, then
> resolutions would have to be formally sent out to the membership no
> later than May 27.
>
>> I hope we can get some good discussion before then.  Things that I am
>> personally interested in:
>> 1) Community Fibre....i mean Olympic Fibre
>
> I don't think we can call it Olympic fibre unless we displace and
> criminalize the poor and homeless while we install it, construct a
> billion-dollar security apparatus to "protect the cables," and end up $6
> billion in debt. :)
>

community fibre in Vancouver would create more than $6B if done
properly. I am sure the mayor is on it. He'll probably post on our
list.

>> 2) Speaking Out Against Net Neutrality
>
> This would be a good conversation to have.  Net neutrality: a necessary
> form of regulation to protect the free exchange of ideas, or an
> ineffective panacea that keeps us from talking about who ought to own
> our communications infrastructure in the first place?
>

the splash page should be this poll...if you get it wrong, you get no Internet.

>> 3) Eliminating Open Source software from our principles
>
> Heh.

Jeff, I have too much twittering to do in between photoblogmeetups all
day to deal with this response. that "Heh" needs to be a URI....come
on, dude. If you want to go on a starbucks zombiewalk with me around
3:41 and discuss this further, ping me on my cell. c# rules.

>
>> 4) Local Apps & Content
>
> Would be nice to have this stuff, but we need a network first...

I say we need the content and apps that are worthy of building a local
network (we could get them shipped over from Toronto and Montreal and
put a Vancouver skin on them)

>
> Jeff
>
> >
>