Moderator: Dale Taylor, moderator.
33 Attendees.

Topic: Santa Barbara TeleComm.Unity (TCU) Progress Report

The November meeting will occur on the 5th Wednesday of November: Wednesday, 11/29/95. The topic may be local directories (on the Internet).

Announcements:

Jan Ballard: The timeline from the TeleCommUnity event is up on the back wall. Everyone is welcome to add to it during the meeting.

Bruce Hanna: Friday at 2:00 p.m. in the Board of Supervisors Chambers, 4th floor, Bruce will provide a 1/2 hour overview of local telecommunications to the County Economic Development Commission.

Dev Vrat: Cox cable franchise is up for renewal. Panel discussion coming up.

Joe Mortz: Cox made a written commitment in 1981 for multi-media capability before contract renewal time.

Dev: Details about this event are listed on the Santa Barbara Community Calendar: http://www.silcom.com/~imago/sbcalendar.html. The calendar also has some other telecommunications related events listed. You can also find it from the local resources section at Silicon Beach Home Page.

Jan Ballard: Radisson Hotel, Communications 2000 event, November 16, 12-5 p.m.

Dale Taylor: Thursday, November 9, the SEC will host a presentation by the newly formed software consortium. Elephant Bar. Noon.

Reviews the process of how we got to the symposium and the applications of networking to enhance the local economy and life. From the symposium came several groups representing the different interest areas identified. These came from the breakout sessions.

Jan indicated the written proceedings are available for $5.00 (bound with color cover) $2 (black and white stapled). Dev announced they are also on the web at: http://telecommunity.santa-barbara.ca.us. The core group plans to facilitate and coordinate the activities of the breakouts.

Progress reports from different breakouts:

--Religious group. Bruce Shumann is pursuing this sector and Lev at RAIN is setting up some sites.

--Arts and media. John Wiley, Linda Vaitkus, ----- They want a home page-- Tom Towle has a similar page. they are thinking about a calendar to help local performers to schedule performances. They also want to display local artists work-- see Tri-Mix pages. Dev emphasizes the need for SBTCU to provide links to the breakout sites and their information. TCU will develop pages for the sector groups to link from.

--Media group. Santa Barbara Community TV show will be produced once a month. Jeff Bauman. Nov 28 at 4:30 , Channel 17. It will focus on telecommunications happenings. (Bruce Hanna spoke for Jeff)

--Youth group. Ken Wyrick. How to connect the youth groups to the technology and how the schools might help.

SBTCU is assuming the role of "bulletin board" or switch board for the community as it develops infrastructure. It will coordinate the mechanism that allows information from the different groups to be shared across the board.

--Government Group: Dev provided an Internet tour for Naomi Schwartz and Tom Urbanske. The Business Assistance Team site will be up soon. County Data Services is monitoring the use of the Internet and will provide increased Internet access as the demand for it warrants it.

Jeanne Sparks, Tom Urbanske's administrative aide, agreed with Dev's comments about the County and reported that The Regional Technology Alliance doesn't yet have funding--they have to prove their case to get it.

Terry Moore MIS manager for Santa Barbara City: High on his list of goals is providing e-mail service for internal users and web pages for the various departments. Wants to maintain current City web page. Harriet Miller has a Web Page up now as a candidate for Mayor.

--Economic development (Dale Taylor). Two directories have appeared since the symposium. We need to better define the economic advantages of a local information infrastructure. The concept of a local infrastructure needs to be better defined.

Doug Henton from the Smart Valley project is going to facilitate economic development clusters, it is up to us to define what our infrastructure should be if we can take the initiative.

Jan Ballard led a group process involving brainstorming with index cards, markers, and paper up on the front wall:

This evening begins the process of gathering input from all segments of the community and stewarding an ongoing collaboration to develop electronic networks which can serve local economic and community needs.

For the sake of efficiency and positive contribution we will not discuss each idea or criticize them, but rather have discussion of each idea for clarification and/or addition as necessary. The purpose is to offer our most constructive input; and focus mostly on what we are willing to act on. We will address the following points: á How can TCU further the goals of SCTA? á How TCU can accomplish its stated mission? á Visions of what's possible, á Next Steps, General Suggestions, and Specific Offers of support/contribution.

The entire group filled out cards and Jan read them out loud and then posted them on the front wall. The results of this process can be viewed on the Web at the TeleCommUnity WebSite: http://telecommunity.santa-barbara.ca.us. Follow the link to: Proceedings from Tele-Community Meetings and Conferences.

Next meeting November 29, 1995

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