South Coast Telecommunications Alliance: General Meeting November 16, 1994 - 7:00 p.m. Held at General Research Corporation, Santa Barbara, California ______________________________________________________ 55 people in attendance, Moderator: John Wiley What's so good about SCTA meeting? People come to learn and share their knowledge and come up with new ideas. What's going on with the County Backbone Concept? The idea is still being promoted to the county. The idea will be presented on KCET this Thursday at 8:00 p.m. The subject will be the Internet and networking activities in the Santa Barbara area. It is intended to introduce less sophisticated viewers to networking. Michael Masterson, Tom Roberts and Bill McClurg are scheduled to appear on this show. GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS: LaColina has announced that computers <386 or better> will be accepted until November 24th. The foundation will match your donation and it is tax deductible. Ray McGregor, RAIN Ventura is up. For all you people on the Internet: try this, telnet to aloha.com and log in as "child". You will have the opportunity to chat with a computer. This site is sponsored by the University of Hawaii, and Ray thinks its quite entertaining! Jan Ballard, Durand Communications Leadership of Santa Barbara will soon be on a gopher through RAIN. All the policiesand issues discussed in the community on broadbased issues will be placed there. Looking for case studies of people who are actually telecommuting to conduct business. If you are that person or you know someone who does, the group would like to hear from you. Frank Dzuiba, Silicon Beach/Internet Media Network Silicon Beach has announced a merger with Internet Media Network. They will be bringing many high speed data connections to the area. Michael Masterson, Michael Masterson Computer Services Radio show continues with Bob Hayes. It airs on KTMS, 1050 a.m. on Saturdays at 5:00 p.m. Call in as ask your questions about computers. Last week Infomration Broker, Steve Macintosh, answered questions. And what information did Steve find? -- "what smells to dogs like best?". Mark Gibbs, author of the book, "Navigating the Internet" will be a guest on the show in the next few weeks. Darrel Doer, Caddyshack BBS Free Internet email and newsgroups are now available. Call Darrel at 683-4244 for more information. Michael Woodill, ComputerFocus Computerfocus will be donating their office space to a native American group to train their people. They will be looking for some volunteer trainers. Details will be posted soon. The training room will be available on evenings and weekends. Jim Israel, Consultant Check out the book by Liz Fleming, of the "one-minute telecommuter". The telecommute is on! Pepa Ojeda/Ron Dolin - Internet Cafe Internet Cafe announces their Santa Barbara County Home Page, which is an on-line listing of services and businesses in Santa Barbara County. They can be accessed on the world wide web through the lynx or mosaic browser. The URL is: http://www.internet-cafe.com/sb/sb.html Carl Hopkins, Santa Barbara County Introduced the Token Ring Network of Santa Barbara which is throughout the county and is Novell exclusive. There are 16,020 nodes on the ring currently with approximately 1,400 PC Most of the existing mainframe network has been converted to token ring. Traffic in most circumstances stays on the local rings and there is extensive internetworking between the locations. Standardization and replication of what works has been the theme of making the system operate efficiently. All the computers talk to one another! The software used by the County is: windows, lotus 123, word perfect, email system, (connected to the Internet through Compuserve) same 3270 emulator, and basically same database program everywhere. Carl says that Token ring card is more expensive then Ethernet. Wiring is more expensive for Ethernet than token ring. Better performance from Token Ring in the opinion of the County. Dataease (selected in 1985), is the database used by the County. They are looking towards SQL server, and development will be done in visual basic and foxpro. County goals are to link each of the seven cities to the using source route transparent bridging. What will be done in the future? Final stages of bringing in a large order of cabletron hub. Netview, land Network manager, need improved resolutionof errors, security, statistics and management. Will be adding T1 lines. Will be implementing a video teleconferencing project through a grant from the Air Pollution Control District. They intend to do video teleconferencing between Santa Barbara and Santa Maria. Future plans include TCP/IP addresses. Concept of the community Backbone is being considered seriously. Whatever communication can be done in the future can be done with this network. Networking is here to stay and people will start using it! ************************************ There will not be a SCTA meeting in December. Announcement will be made for the next meeting in January. At that time, a more formal structure for SCTA will be discussed with possible nominations. ______________________________________________________ /\ Kristine Witzel /??\ kristine@silcom.com Internet Trainers & Consultants \??/ 805.566-1876 _____________________________________\/_______________