Friday February 4, 2005

Present -Leon, falcon_tw, Ellie, mayra, doc, tely, Grandpa, Jabiru, Woody, tinge, ananas, Coxswain, roger-uk

Not represented - BR DE US FR MX/SA IT CA BE

Old Business

1. Minutes of January 2005 approved.

2. Reduction of quorum to 7 coupled with increased stringency on absent CC's - Council voted to keep the same ratio as at present (for quorum = 1/2 Council membership +1). Council clarified that the definition of inactive member be as follows "if a country, defined as country/region/team, is not represented for 3 meetings, over a 6 month period, either through the CC or an appointed deputy, then the CC should be counted as inactive". Secretary to keep a record of attendance beginning March 2005.

3. Scouting Sunrise – Discussion of what SL might like to do as part of this activity will be discussed via email.

4. SL Services proposal - It was proposed and carried that Scoutlink council appoints a sub committee to look at the proposal for a member controlled network and report back to Council at the  February meeting. The volunteers for the committee are roger-uk, jabiru, AK-eagle, Ellie, kerbe, no-use, Beluga, and an Italian member. It has been postponed to undefined future date. Jabiru will remind roger-uk about this.

5. WOSM Reporting –Proposal made that due to experience and knowledge of documents and professional way to deal with WOSM, that Jabiru be named our official liaison with WOSM/Holgi. He will write professionally and strategically on behalf of Scoutlink Council. Carried.

Secretary will send an official letter to Holgi introducing Jabiru as official Council Representative for WOSM/JOTI information.

New Business

1. Thinking Day – Request to lend support to Rae-Rae and #trefoil for WTD event as per peeves’ email to the Team. Please talk to your teams and get them motivated to help.
2. Ellie recommended that all council members formally appoint a deputy and that record of this kept by secretary. This will be tabled to next meeting’s agenda.

Business from the Mail-list

Australian Report

We have picked up quite a number of new Australian chatters since JOTI 2004.  This is encouraging news, as they are young, lively people.

OZANZ IRL camp is being planned for the first weekend of July, in Alice Springs - the Red Centre of Australia. It’s the first time OZANZ has been held in a desert setting.

http://www.outbackscouts.com/index.htm

The SL Australia website is operational - www.scoutlink.net.au

SL Australia was invited by the organizers of the Australian Jamboree 2007 to make a proposal to run internet activities.  We have a small planning team, and will be meeting soon to start putting a proposal together.  We are thinking about providing internet cafe, complete with access to SL chat, and are also considering other ideas such as a cam server, games, web radio.  Much depends on available bandwidth.  Another idea we are considering is to promote a JOTI style activity for a period of time during the Jamboree, to give Scouts outside of the Jamboree a chance to talk to people on site.  The Jamboree organizers are very enthusiastic about our involvement.

Any international SL people who are planning to attend AJ2007 are welcome to request to work on our activity.  We will issue formal invitations later.

We still enjoy solid support from our National JOTA/JOTI coordinator.

I met with my Chief Commissioner this week, and one of the topics I discussed was our plans for AJ2007.  She offered to promote our efforts at the meeting of Australian Chief Commissioners (there is one in every State) in March.

That’s it from OZ

Jabiru

Next meeting scheduled for Saturday, March 5, 2005 2200 GMT.