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Building Community Computing Networks
May 4-6, 1994--Cupertino, California
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 conference.
Conference Specifics
Date: Wednesday, May 4 to Friday, May 6, 1994
Place: Apple Computer Conference Center, 4 Infinite Loop, Cupertino,
California 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.
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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