PPO Council Notes 1-8-2007

Agenda Items:
T-Shirts
Taskforce
Village Information System
ASPO Conference
City Repair/ Community Empowerment event
February meeting schedule
Website hosting
Purpose of Council/ Purpose of PPO

Meeting Schedule
1/24 Speaker's Bureau
1/31 Biodiesel Guy. Host: Randy, Open: Nellie. projector required, Randy will bring.
2/7 Prep - discussion of Maritime Northwest Garden Guide. Host: Carla, open:Nellie
2/14 NO MEETING
2/21 Taskforce - comment on public draft of findings Host: Jonathan
2/28 TBA- possibly presentation by Jerry (ppo member) Host: Jonathan.

Content of 2/21 and 2/28 may be swapped on the basis of when the taskforce public draft is released.

City Repair/ Community Empowerment event
this is a workshop taking place on 2/17 and 2/24. They'd like someone from PPO to present on 2/17. Jeremy volunteered.

T-Shirts
Robin will work out technical details with the printer, PPO has ~$400 from the donation jar, Robin will put up $50 if everyone else (council regulars) will put up $50, David will put up whatever shortfall there is between what PPO and council regulars put up.

Website Hosting
PPO is running out of disc space with current host
Can host with local company Stephouse for $15/mo, but limited disc space and limited bandwidth would make it difficult to expand the media portions of the site.
Dreamhosting (national company with regional datacenters) $7/ mo with 200GB disc space and 2TB monthly bandwidth.
Decided to go with the more space/ higher bandwidth option to allow for expansion of media resources portion of the site.

Taskforce
Don't know when public draft will be released- no recent meetings, changes down to language quibbles, should be sometime soon.

Purpose of Council/ Purpose of PPO
Robin mentioned she will be phasing out her involvement in Council on the basis that its not moving her toward the goals she'd like to achieve. Jeremy mentioned that we need a new set of bullet points for the PPO mission statement, since we've achieved about 2.5 of the current goals. This is a discussion of greater scope than can be handled in a regular council meeting. Suggested format was meeting at an informal location (Mike's place, depending on number of people interested in attending) where we can discuss personal PO goals and synthesize from those goals a new set of goals for the organization as a whole. Someplace where we can have beer and food is preferred for the venue. Event will probably take place on a Sunday, there will be a planning meeting for the event on 2/15 at Mike's place starting at 6:00. IIRC we're doing potluck, BYOB.

ASPO Conference
David made some calls about the possibility of bringing the ASPO conference to Portland. Process is we submit a statement of interest in hosting ASPO 2008. Since planning and arranging logistics for a conference of this size is likely to require most of a year of full time work for at least one person, and PPO does not have funds to pay such a person (or resources to do many of the other necessary tasks) David will put out feelers to PSU and the City to see if there is interest in hosting the event, and funds to make it happen.

VIS
Work is ongoing, nothing particular to report at the moment.

Community Building
Popped up at several points in the meeting that it would be nice to have some more socially oriented/ get to know each other/ community building meetings at a location where we could buy food and beer. Venue would need to be non-smoking or have a separate room we could use. Preference is for inner SE Portland.

Projector
Mike is buying a projector, which he is willing to make available to PPO if needed.

Attending:
Jeremy
Jonathan
Carla
Nellie
Robin
Randy
David
Peter (new guy, from Austin)