Minutes from "London Commons Meeting" on May 14 2008 - 5:00pm

Agenda:

* review of minutes from last meeting

* review of policies

* Jeremy to introduce notes for an LC business plan

* follow up stuff from last meeting

Review of minutes from last meeting:

* ratings system still not changed, Jeremy and Thomas may work on that at a meeting on June 22nd*

* Rachel will work on policy for working groups

Review and Editing of Policies:

* all available in the book which you can find here - http://www.londoncommons.net/node/6020

Jeremy's
notes on the London Commons business plan strategy:

(can't find where it's posted so i'll include the discussion here)

* ultimate goal - owning the communications infrastructure

* we need engineering and business expertise to do it

* getting a team of students and a professor involved, working under our policy, to help the old east village develope its own internet services

* for London Commons to locate our server in London, selling services to members to build up capital and build infrastructure

* possibility of becoming a Local Public Offering - to own internet services

* need for strategic planning and narrowing of focus, Rachel has some resources on that

* possible support from the Labour Council and Canadian Legal Services (Matti and Jeremy will talk to them)

* need for complete business plan and complete set of by-laws

* Jeremy will post the business plan online for discussion

Follow up from the last meeting:

* voting at meetings - Thomas' idea, he isn't present so it's deferred until next time

* theme issues deferred - Jeremy and Thomas will work on them at their development meeting

The next meeting set for June 11:

* Liz will post the meeting to the events calendar

* Liz will post the minutes for this meeting