Date: Fri, 4 Mar 1994 19:18:42 -0800 From: Jim Warren Subject: GovAccess.024: swords>air; May 4-6 communitynets conf; more SEC EDGAR Mar.03, 1994 [ If you happened to e-write to me recently: I've worked my way down to my Feb.24th email. Hope to clear remaining ~350 messages by the end of the weekend. -- cringingly jim ] &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& DIFFERENT DEFENSE CONVERSION: FROM MILITARY TO ENVIRONMENT From maclint@aol.com Mon Feb 21 13:34:47 1994 Subject: 20/20vision Peace and Ecology Jim- I have been setting up an electronic mailing list aimed at briefing interested individuals on matters related to shifting govermental military presence toward the environment. I distribute the monthly postcard from 20/20 Vision (a nationwide citizen lobbying group). ... To get on my mailing list: send e-mail to Maclint@aol.com with message "Put me on Peace/Eco list" &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& MAY 4-6 CONF ON COMMUNITY NETWORKS IN CUPERTINO, CALIF. - LIMITED CAPACITY [reformatted --jim] --- Building Community Computing Networks Community Networks. Free-Nets. Civic Networks. Community Wide Education and Information Services. These systems have many names, and they represent a range of local and regional solutions in providing computing, communication and information services to citizens, organizations, businesses, government agencies, schools, libraries, and the established media. In many cases, those same groups are the organizers and information providers. Because of the growing interest in community networks in Canada, the United States, Japan, New Zealand, Finland, and other countries, we believe it is time to convene this conference to take a hard look at the challenges and opportunities for individuals and groups involved in community networking. The meetings are aimed at the organizers, system operators, librarians, educators, users, software suppliers, funding organizations, and information providers for new and existing community systems. It will be an excellent forum for legislators, policy analysts, public utilities commission regulators, and city planners to learn more about these networks. To facilitate the exchange of ideas, contacts, and information the conference will offer: - A phone line and a T1 connection to the Internet for demonstrations. - Audio-visual facilities for large screen projection of Macintosh and video images. Contact us if you wish to demo DOS or Unix systems. - Meals will be provided for registered attendees. - Literature table for manifestos, tracts, declarations, notices, publications, advertisements, demo disks, and other handouts. Send literature and papers if you cannot attend. - Proceedings of the presentations and white papers for all attendees. - Blocks of free time and breakout rooms for ad-hoc gatherings, BOFs (birds- of-a-feather sessions), special interest groups that form during the event. --- Conference Specifics Date: Wednesday, May 4 to Friday, May 6, 1994 Place: Apple Computer Conf.Center, 4 Infinite Loop, Cupertino CA 95014 Cost: $25 U.S. includes meals Wednesday evening through Friday noon. Pre-register. Sponsors: Apple Library of Tomorrow, Cupertino, California The Morino Foundation, Great Falls, Virginia Estimated Number of attendees: 250 maximum. We reserve the right to limit the number of attendees from any one organization. --- Conference Schedule: (subject to additions) --- Wednesday: May 4, 1994 5:00-6:00 p.m. Registration 6:00-7:00 p.m. Welcome Dinner 7:00 p.m.-Ken Phillips, Director, Marion Salem Information Services, Salem, Oregon and founder of Santa Monica Public Electronic Network. Then and Now: A look at Santa Monica PEN and community networks 8:00 -8:30 p.m. Organize Ad Hoc meetings for Thursday after lunch --- Thursday: May 5, 1994 8:00-8:45 a.m.. Breakfast 9:00-Tom Grundner, President, National Public Telecomputing Network: The State of Free-Nets 10:00-noon Track 1 Urban Systems -Helen Moeller, Director, Leon County Public Library System: User Support Issues for Tallahassee Free-Net -Richard Naylor, Manager, Information Technology, Wellington City Net Community Networking in New Zealand -Miles Fidelman, Executive Director, Center for Civic Networking Sustainable Development Information Network Cambridge and Cape Cod, Massachusetts Track 2 Rural Systems -Richard Lowenberg, Director, Telluride (Colorado) InfoZone Status report on the InfoZone -Jean Armour Polly, NYSERNet, Liverpool, New York Project GAIN: Rural libraries in upstate New York -Patrick Finn, President, La Plaza TeleCommunity Foundation , Taos, NM Building partnerships to build a network -Frank Odasz, Director, Big Sky Telegraph, Dillon, Montana Big Sky Telegraph after six years online Noon-3:00 p.m. Lunch and free time for BOFs, Ad Hoc meetings, and schmoozing. 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. BOF: Public Outreach and training. Eric Theise, Internet Domain Editor, Millennium Whole Earth Catalog. 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.-Mario Morino, Director, The Morino Foundation A Meta-View of Community Networks: the goals of the Morino Foundation 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. Indigenous Groups Online -Keola Donaghy, Network Designer and Administrator, Hale Kuamo'o and MauiLink, Hawaii : Breaking out of the ASCII barrier. Software for other cultures. -George Baldwin, INDIANnet Census Information and Network Center Getting Indian Nations online -Anne Fallis, System Operator, INDIANnet (South Dakota) Setting up small systems for Indian users 6:00 p.m. Dinner 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Free time for demos, conversation, BOFs. --- Friday, May 6 8:00 - 9:00 a.m.. Breakfast 9:00 - noon. Track 1 Policy and Funding -Richard Civille, Center for Civic Networking, Washington, D.C.. Civic networking and local community and economic develolpment -Jim Warren, Columnist and Advocate, Nuts & Bolts getting state and local public records online: real world experiences. -Michael Strait, Project Director, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Washington, D.C.. Response to the CPB/CWEIS Initiative: What are the types of partnerships emerging in the 90 communities that sent in proposals? -National Telecommunications & Information Administration Representative (invited) Community network grant program -Open discussion of funding opportunities and challenges Track 2 Regional Networks and technical issues -Marty Tenenbaum, Enterprise Integration Technologies, Palo Alto, CA CommerceNet: a broadband project for the San Francisco Bay Area -Peter Scott, Saskatoon FREE-NET, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada Free-Nets in Canada -Benay Dara-Abrams, Silicon Valley Public Access Link, Mountain View, CA Designing a distributed multi-hub community network -Dewayne Hendricks, Tetherless Access Ltd, Fremont, California Wireless community networks: examples and future plans. Noon - 1 :00 p.m. Lunch 1:00-3:00 p.m. Short and Sweet: Online and canned demos of community networking software and systems. Show us your best in fifteen minutes of fame. (Please sign up) 3:00 -5:00 p.m. Where are Community Networks headed? -Jean Armour Polly, NYSERNet, Inc. Liverpool, New York Declaration of Information Interdependence -Frank Odasz, Big Sky Telegraph, Dillon, Montana The Need for Rigorous and Quantitative Evaluation of Community Systems -Howard Rheingold, author, The Virtual Community. Open mike 5:30 p.m. End of Conference --- Registration Details Please fill in the following information. It will be used for a printed roster to be distributed to the other attendees at the conference. Community Network Conference Registration Name: Title: Organization Address City, State, Postal Code Country e-mail address: telephone: Please describe your interest or involvement in community networks in a few words. This will help other attendees to locate like-minded people for informal meetings and discussions. If you don't want your information included in the roster, mark here: NO Payment: $25 U.S. by check or money order, payable to "ALUG" One check per attendee. This registration is non-refundable, but you may transfer your registration to another person. If we receive your registration before April 8, you will receive a free conference T-shirt. What size? S M L XL XXL Do you need vegetarian meals? Send the check and registration to: Community Network Conference, Apple Library, 4 Infinite Loop MS 304-2A, Cupertino, CA 95014. If the conference capacity has been reached, your check will be returned. --- Hotels (a selection) Courtyard by Marriott (five minutes drive from Apple) 10605 N Wolfe Road, Cupertino, 408/252-1893 single:$90 double:$100 Cupertino Inn (this is within walking distance of the conference) 10889 North DeAnza Blvd., Cupertino, CA 95014, 408/996-7700 single: $95 double: $110 Howard Johnson (five minutes drive from Apple), 5405 Stevens Creek Blvd., Santa Clara; 408/257-8600; single and double: $55 Woodcrest Hotel (10 minutes from Apple), 5415 Stevens Creek Blvd. Santa Clara; 408/446-9636; single: $92 double: $107 Sheraton Sunnyvale Inn (20 minutes away from Apple), 1100 N Mathilda Ave. Sunnyvale; 408/745-6000; single: $88 double: $98 Other hotels and motels: La Hacienda Inn, 18840 Saratoga-Los Gatos Avenue, Saratoga; 408/354 9230 Econo Lodge, 2930 El Camino Real, Santa Clara; 408/241 3010; 800/ 334 3987 --- Transportation San Jose International Airport is served by various carriers with frequent flights from all major cities. It is about 15-20 minutes drive to the conference site. San Francisco International Airport is about 45 minutes to one hour from the conference site. Of course, both airports have various car rental agencies. San Jose is served by several airport shuttle services which cost about $11 for one passenger. In the San Jose terminal there are interactive kiosks to browse and then contact some of the following services: South & East Bay Airport Shutttle 408/559 9477 Express Shuttle 408/378 6270 VIP Airport Shuttle 408/378 8847 There is plenty of free parking outside of the conference facility at 4 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California --- Ride sharing and room sharing Eric S. Theise is working on a mail program for people needing rides/offering rides and for people who need rooms or who have extra space for attendees. He will post directions to these mailing lists in a few days. Eric has done a fantastic job of building up the WELL gopher, so it now includes a wealth of information on community systems. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& SECURITY AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION'S EDGAR DISSEMINATION PROJECT From: bart@netcom.netcom.com (Harry Bartholomew) Fri Feb 18 02:07:02 1994 Since your post of instructions, they have revised their directory structure somewhat. Here are the new instructions I just downloaded. --- general.txt: Description: General Information about EDGAR Data Discussion List: edgar-interest@town.hall.org To Subscribe to List: edgar-interest-request@town.hall.org E-mail server: mail@town.hall.org Anonymous FTP: ftp://town.hall.org/edgar/general.txt --- Welcome to the Internet EDGAR Dissemination project. This file contains introductory information and will be periodically revised. The Internet EDGAR Dissemination project will allow you to receive any 1994 filings to the Securities and Exchange Commission that are available to the public. 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The official translation of "Information Superhighway" is "DatenAutoBahn", but there are also references to "DatenschnellStrassen". --Bill H., im Kommunikationsnetz gefa\"ngt [bhahn@world.std.com via D.Farber] Mo' as it Is. --jim Jim Warren, columnist for MicroTimes, Government Technology, BoardWatch, etc. 345 Swett Rd., Woodside CA 94062; voice/415-851-7075; fax/415-851-2814 >> To join the GovAccess list, email a request to jwarren@well.sf.ca.us .<< >> Permission herewith granted for unlimited reposting and recirculation.<<