South Coast Telecommunication Alliance Wednesday, August 17, 1994 Antioch University 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Attendence: Approx. 30 people Next meeting schduled for September 21st. MINUTES OF MEETING ___________________________________________________________________________ Anne Cameron: Moderator of meeting A note to the group that everything which is available in printed form SCTA is now available on-line. LATEST NEWS ON WHAT SOME OF THE PEOPLE IN THE GROUP ARE DOING: *************************************************************************** Michael Masterson: Will be staring a new radio show called "The Information Super Rest Stop" which will air on Saturdays at 5:30 - 6:30 on KTMS. The program will focus on on-line and information type of resources. Michael and his partner will be taking calls fron listeners and answering general questions on services, computers, and Internet. There is an open invitiation to anyone who is interested to participate. He intends to promote the activities of SCTA, chat with representatives from the local service providers, and involve the retail stores in the community. For more information: email Michael at: 71477.2316@compuserve.com ___________________________________________________________________________ Michi Blake and Steve Macintosh: Will be presenting a seminar - "Doing Business on the Internet", Thursday, September 15th at the Miramar 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (Registration required) Several speakers will discuss the latest information on what the Internet is, who uses it, and why business should use it. It will be a combination of an on-line, live demonstration of the Internet and presentations from experienced information specialists. For more information: Call Michi Blake at 963-4095 or 969-6268 ___________________________________________________________________________ GENERAL COMMENTS MADE: SCTA and RAIN to collaborate on Virtual Reality Conference in October SCTA currently discussing the possibility of being a part of the RAIN network's "Virtual Reality" conference in October. One of the speakers which was contacted for SCTA is S. Herman who is on the President's committee. The purpose of the event is to create awareness of telecommunications in the community. SCTA Home Page on Mosaic/World Wide Web SCTA is current working on a home page on the world wide web. It will give direction on how to subscribe to the lists, guidelines on procedures, and phone numbers with email addresses of all SCTA participants including their bios. Becky Davis: Brought up the point that we should have a gopher for this also -- there are many people which do not have access to mosaic. Jan Ballard: Representing Durand Communications, is interested in co-creating a community group of people who are interested in a leadership program in regard to telecommunications. He has experience in creating over 150 "focus" groups throughout the country by conducting 10 classes per year for the past 4 years. His focus is a group which would link civic groups in the community. Open invitation to anyone who is interested. "We could change enemies into collaborators", Jan said. For more information: Call Jan at 961-8700 John Wiley: Suggested that SCTA conduct on-line meetings through email. John suggested an that we look into creating an IRC channel. Does this have to be moderated? It was stated that teleconferencing is a skill that has to be developed. It can be difficult, and there should be a moderator so that one person does not do all the talking. Peter Ramme: Suggested a moderated live chat session and that he would be interested in persuing this further with the group. Group will investigate into the development of such a system. NEXT MEETING OF SCTA The next meeting is scheduled for September 21st at 7:00 p.m. Through email we will formalize the agenda for this next meeting. If anyone has anything that they would like to put on the agenda, please email your suggestions. COMMENTS FROM THE GROUP: Durand Communications will be releasing the first, all windows bulletin board in September. They would like to offer the BBS as a community service. COMMENTS FROM THE GROUP ON: Reasons for people coming back to SCTA meetings: great energy networking collaboration on projects bring the community together talk with others about computers nice to get out and away from the computer Anne's cookies advocacy the group represents for telecommunications to find out who is doing what in town good ideas John Wiley: Not everyone is on the Internet. We need to expand focus of the group to all forms of telecommunications. Chuck Ryan: suggested that time be alloted for people in special techologies to present their product or service. This would educate all further on what exactly everyone is doing. There is no doubt that we all have a desire to share what we are doing and learn from others. Melanie Bury: The Fielding Institute has currently set up their own Internet node. Tom Bell: Is currently exploring the commercial aspects of the Internet and how it relates to marketing a product. Kenneth Wyrick: (not present) The news is that he is working on a grant Project with Nikleodean called "Kids helping communities" which is a project working with the boys and girls clubs in the community. Nancy Oster: Biggest problem in getting email access is in getting the equipment setup. We need the help of volunteers to coordinate this to put parts together to build computers from scrap/discarded parts. We need to get people involved by letting them know that there is something which they want to use. LET'S RECYCLE THOSE OLD COMPUTERS Frank Dziuba: Suggested that SCTA organize a project to build computers. We have the expertise needed. We could gather components donated from the businesses in town. We could enlist college students to put them together. AND THAT'S ALL FOR THIS WEEK'S MEETING! See you on-line.