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Executive Director's Report to Council 28/07/00

1. NEW STAFF MEMBER

Our new Administration Manger, Beverley Irvine, took up her position formally on July 10. We have been putting intensive time into transferring work to her. I welcome her contributions already, and have flagged via the list that this is an important transition time and full output results won't be seen immediately. I note however that the Council approved Motions and Minutes were up on the website by the Thursday following the Council meeting despite my flying out the Monday evening - I believe this is a record.

2. BIDDING FOR ICANN 2001

The process for bidding for the March 2001 ICANN meeting was posted on July 6, the day before the last Council meeting and only a few before we flew out to the ICANN meeting. I have not asked the staff to take any action on this for a variety of reasons:

  • budget situation for 2001 unknown
  • the time frames were too tight
  • the Australians have a bid in and requested that we did not bid also
  • a bit of realism - the Aussies have an ICANN Board member and the Chair of the GAC

3. THINKQUEST 2001

Wayne Leong, our national co-ordinator, has been really driving this project and for the first time we have real buy-in around the country. WISE Net has been instrumental in getting things moving in the Wairarapa and will shortly host a regional event, and other regional events are planned for Lower Hutt and I understand Christchurch is underway. WISE Net is sponsoring the new website and I encourage you to take a look at http://www.thinkquest.org.nz

4. UNIFORUM/ISOCNZ JOINT CONFERENCE

Two major planning meetings have been held - one just before I went to Yokohama and one just after I returned. The brochure/programme has gone to the printers and will be with both organisations shortly for mailout. Because of our current budget uncertainty, we have agreed with UniForum to contribute "in kind" at the moment, and therefore Beverley is acting as the co-ordination point for registrations and other organisational needs. My next job is to finish the draft heads of agreement for approval by the Admin Committee.

Council needs to appoint a replacement Council contact person to replace Mark Harris if it feels a need to still have one.

5. MEMBERSHIP ISSUES

I have already reported facts and figures via the Council Mailing list and I will add that to this report for circulation to members if the Council deems appropriate.

I can now add to that report that there are 5 "old" members who have not rejoined isocnz-announce (no replies) - these await action pending Council decision on the issue.

6. MAILING LIST BEHAVIOUR

I have notified the members list that I will be enforcing the temporary suspension of list members who breach the AUP's - in this case the ad hominen attacks. I note that there have been 58 isocnz-members mailing list unsubscriptions since June 26, with 52 of these since July 6 when the list started getting into higher volume and more noise-to-signal. I seek Council approval to take the action if necessary - or, failing that approval, direction on how to ensure good standards of behaviour on the list so that we can retain as many interested parties as possible.

7. OFFICE UPDATES

  • the report on Telecom NetDay 2000 is in. It notes that 118 schools installed LAN's on the day, and that 560 schools registered to participate overall. These are tremendous results. At the same time the Council may wish to reconsider further sponsorship in the light of Telecom's adoption of the project and the many alternative projects the Society could look at.
  • the premises we were interested in have gone as we had no budget to proceed
  • we were unable to even consider the Computer Society's offer of sharing their new premises for the same reason (though it may well have been moot anyway)
  • Actrix is currently reconstructing their space and we are therefore in a very noisy and dusty environment at the moment
  • my laptop finally reached it's endpoint and has gone to be rejuvenated, the new PC for the new staff member is working well. I am currently working from home on my own equipment, but trust this will be very temporary
Sue Leader
Executive Director

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