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- From: Judy.Hallman@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Judy Hallman)
- Subject: New group for people interested in a FreeNet for RTP
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.191855.24503@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 19:18:55 GMT
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- Tim Seaver set up this group at my request. I have been working with a
- group in Chapel Hill to start a big public bbs. We have done a lot of
- ground work -- we've incorporated (Public Information Network, Inc.), we
- have tax exempt status, and we've made lots of contacts. We've even
- submitted some grant proposals, though all have been turned down so far. We
- would like to provide a service for RTP similar to the FreeNets currently
- available, and we need a lot of help. Tim Arnold recently posted a "Call
- for Interest and Experience" to triangle.general (on July 16). We now have
- a special group for this discussion.
-
- If you haven't seen the FreeNets, try them out. Internet to
- bbs.oit.unc.edu, login as bbs, then enter your name and a password at the
- prompts. From the bbs main menu, select item 9 (Libraries...) and then
- type BBS. Cleveland, Heartland, Youngstown, TriState Online (Cincinnati),
- and Lorain are "FreeNets." Cleveland is the oldest and has the most stuff
- in it.
-
- I hope we can use this newsgroup to develop a plan for implementing a similar
- service for RTP. Bill Hutchins (President of PIN) and a few others in PIN
- are currently working on another grant proposal that is due August 1 and
- will take most of our time until then. There seems to be enough interest
- in this subject to have an "organizing" meeting. Seems like mid August
- might be the best time. That would give us time to put together a
- reasonable program to get the most out of gathering together.
-
- Meanwhile, we can use this newsgroup to bounce around ideas. For
- example, what do you think of the "city" model? Can you find things? Do
- you have ideas for better menus?
-
- Think of people you know who might like to help with this project, and
- think about people who will want to provide information. Start making
- lists of names, addresses, and e-mail addresses.
-
- Think about ways to finance the thing (we're figuring on about $150,000 a
- year).
-
- This is an exciting project and there's a lot of enthusiasm for it
- already, but we're going to need LOTS of help.
-
- Judy Hallman (Judy_Hallman@unc.edu)
- Manager of Information Services
- Office of Information Technology
- UNC-Chapel Hill
-
- PS -- In case you are wondering, this is a volunteer project; it's not part
- of my job.
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