Minutes of SCTA meeting
10/19/94
30 attendees

John Wiley called the meeting to order at 7:10. He gave a brief 
description of what SCTA is about. He discussed the Antioch letter and 
passed it around for people to sign to express their appreciation to 
Antioch for hosting our meetings.

We talked about the November meeting; possible date is November 16th. We 
will need a site; Stephen Stone will talk to Cottage hospital about using 
a meeting room there. Goleta Library has a room, County schools has a 
meeting room on Hollister Ave., city public works has a room that's 
available sometimes; Ridley Tree has some rooms (SBCC); that would mean 
meeting on Fri-Sun. Possible meeting rooms were discussed for a while. 

Announcements: Marty Rickler talked about the community training bank in 
Feb; invites non-profit agency members to come and learn various things. 
In Feb, it will be about the Internet. This Friday, there will be a 
presentation to health care agencies in the community; 40 agencies are 
invited. He also discussed his consultant list, and he discussed the 
project about organizing health care info on the Net. Marty can be 
reached at paladin@silcom.com or paladin@rain.org. 

Mary Hall talked about the La Colina Computers For Schools project. They 
are looking for computers; they get matching computers from some agency 
for every one they receive as a donation. There was a bit of discussion 
about it.

Antioch is moving towards a Service Learning Center here. It is 
potentially a community resource for people who want to write grants for 
the community.

Jan Ballard announced the formation of a community political action 
design team, where people will design ways to be involved in setting 
community political actions. He can be contacted at Durand Communications 
if people are interested in participating.

Dave Oster discussed progress on the Community Backbone idea; he has met 
with the County, who recommends that there be a champion within the 
County to make it happen. He mentioned that he had met with John Bruno at 
UCSB, who was supportive of the idea. He talked about the difference 
between leased lines and Frame Relay, where with leased lines the user 
pays on a per mile basis, whereas with Frame Relay there is no distance 
charge. There was some further discussion.

Becky Davis discussed UCSB's providing Internet access, as to whether 
they will continue to provide access. UC may be one of the major access 
providers in the country, or they may stop doing it altogether. There are 
discussion going on at the UC system about these issues. 

RAIN talked about the Cafe Internet sessions; this week will be about 
Internet culture. These are training sessions about Internet access in 
general.

Steve Bang from Silicon Beach is installing Frame Relay and a T1 
connection directly to CIX. Jim Sterne explained that CIX is a consortium 
of Internet providers who have agreed to exchange packets with each 
other. Steve is putting together some documen tation about accessing the 
Net; tentatively titled "Surfing at Silicon Beach." 

There was some discussion of the "tri." newsgroups, specifically as to 
whether they are carried by all the sites at UCSB. Becky Davis said they 
are, and that UCSB is going through a reorganization because of the new 
chancellor, so there is a lot of confusion currently about future 
directions there.

We had brief introductions all around.

Jill Charboneau of Advanced Information Design Associates then gave a 
presentation about CU-SeeMe, a videoconferencing application for the 
Internet, developed at Cornell University. It allows up to eight windows 
on the screen for videoconferencing. Client software is available for 
Macintosh and Windows systems. The "servers" in this case are called 
"reflectors," and they require a Sun Sparcstation or Silicon Graphics 
Indie; some other reflector systems may be available. More information is 
available at server "gated.cornell.edu" on the Internet, in directory 
/pub/video. Use "anonymous" as the user id; there is no password. Be sure 
to look at the ReadMe file there for more information. 

The meeting was adjourned at 9:52.



Dale Taylor
Resource Associates
Santa Barbara, CA, USA
805-899-4670; FAX 805-899-4870; Internet dale@rain.org rasb@beach.silcom.com