South Coast Telecommunications Alliance (SCTA) Held at General Research Corporation, Santa Barbara CA June 28, 1995 - Minutes of Meeting ______________________________________________________ Dale Taylor moderated. The topic was a retrospective on the SCTA activities and achievements of the past year-- this meeting was the first anniversary of the founding of SCTA. Dale announced the UCSB gathering to honor Glen Culler on September 8, 4:00 at the Corwin Pavilion. Doug Englebart, the inventor of the mouse and windows concepts, will be a speaker. Second Foundation announced their Goleta node is now available for Internet services including high speed services. Sean Miner announced that WestNet will be hosting an open house. They now have 112 customers and have been in operation less than a month. Nancy Oster asked everyone to please update their address information so she can update her database and the web page. Dave Oster announced that Michael Masterson personally contributed SEC's share of the UCSB Forum SCTA attended this past winter. Dana Simmons announced telecommuter centers at Ventura College and Moorpark College-- brochures were available. John Wiley announced the steering committee idea to encourage placing personal posters to the meetings to inform each other about our interests, concerns, and business. John also offered congratulations to Silicon Beach on their first year of operation and thanks for their generosity in hosting the SCTA-lists. Introductions: The introductions of the meeting participants followed. Ann Cameron started the retrospective with the following overview of the formation of SCTA: The formative meeting began as an informal gathering around Nancy Oster's kitchen table and included Dale Taylor, Sharon Clausen, and Catherine Babine. The next meeting was held at Antioch University and had about 12 people including Frank Dzuiba, Ann Cameron, John Wiley, and others. It was at the first few meetings that the purpose and mission of SCTA was formalized. One of the most notable accomplishments was to catalyze the Community Training Bank led by Marty Rickler with the subsequent introduction of Internet technology to 50 local non-profits. The topics of discussion during the non-discussion part of the meetings included encryption and its politics moderated by Michael Masterson, CU-SeeMe Internet video teleconferencing demonstrated and described by Jill Charboneau, and a review of the locally available telecommunication resources and the advancement of community oriented backbone network concept. Off-line discussion during the meetings have stimulated business contacts and provided a forum for free discussion of data networking and its local value and uses. Dale then summed up the purposes of SCTA: Getting businesses to collaborate over the Internet. Helping disabled people get access. Getting local telecommunications companies to collaborate. Moving the county toward more telecommuting and a larger knowledge based workforce. What can networking do for the community? * Increased government responsivenes * Health service information sharing for cost reduction and improved service * Class schedules and network training * Arts, culture,and entertainment schedules and viewing * Business information and search database * Citizen collaboration through e-mail and discussion groups * A community network infrastructure could attract new industry * Biotech industry cluster collaboration "Attractive" communities have among other things a good information infrastructure. The future of SB depends on this development as well. Extended discussion about what we should do in the future: How to get the backbone moved along. How to reach out to the community. The Culler event, other events such as a storefront for community input. A demonstration of some sort might be a good way to galvanize the community. The question of "what's in it for me" must be answered. Chamber of Commerce is having a "communications' conference (more general sense of word). SCTA might participate. Michael Masterson wants input-- a booth, or just speakers. Next meeting is July 26. _________________________________________________________________________ David Oster, CEO | Wide-Area Network Interface Cards MultiAccess Computing Corporation | Novell * FTP * Macintosh * Windows 805-964-2332 fax 805-681-7469 | Frame relay * SMDS * CDS * DXI _________________________________________________________________________