roundtable: Summit Coordinates are Coming

roundtable: Summit Coordinates are Coming

Summit Coordinates are Coming

Richard Civille (rciville@civicnet.org)
Mon, 28 Mar 1994 03:10:17 -0500 (EST) 

Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 03:10:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Richard Civille <rciville@civicnet.org>
Subject: Summit Coordinates are Coming
Message-Id: <Pine.3.07.9403280317.A22108-c100000@cap.gwu.edu>


Good Morning!  Please repost on other lists/online communities/community
networks you participate in if they are not receiving these announcements.

Here's the wave building around the Summit.  More coming soon.  Stay tuned:

*    The Summit will take place Tuesday, March 29th from 8:30AM to 5:00
     at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill.

*    Attendance in DC is now over 600 people.  We can take no further
     registrations.

*    Hundreds email messages and net postings have been generated around the
     issues the Summit will address, and that's only the materials we've seen
     on the few lists we can monitor with extremely limited resources.  We've
     heard from teachers in Columbia, network managers in Singapore, 
     Free-Nets in Canada, rural librarians, and citizen advisory groups 
     to state telecommunications initiatives to mention only a few. 

*    About 40 people around the country offered to help organize
     offline discussion groups.  To date, we've received reports from about
     a dozen so far.  At least one group now plans to conduct further NII
     organizing activities in their state.

*    Portions of the Summit will be broadcast live in 20 radio markets
     around the country including major metropolitan areas.  We will list 
     the participating radio stations sometime on Monday when the full list 
     is compiled.

*    Nine foundations and the Administration's Information
     Infrastructure Taskforce have directly contributed to the event.

*    There is space on C-Span's Tuesday broadcast schedule for a
     "public policy conference" but no commitment yet.  This is not unusual 
     for C-Span.  Please note that there is not a specific commitment from 
     C-Span to carry this event live.  This is their normal way of handling
     events.

*    The Summit gopher will be announced tomorrow.  We are VERY
     interested in having your organization's gopher server establish a 
     pointer to the Summit gopher.  Please let us know if you would like 
     to do this.  We will announce the Summit gopher coordinates sometime on
     Monday.

*    The Summit Mosaic server will also be announced.

*    The Summit panels and proceedings will be quickly summarized and
     posted throughout the day to the Nets, to the Summit gopher and Mosaic
     servers.  We urge you to respond to these summaries with SPECIFIC 
     questions addressed to SPECIFIC panelists.  We will do our best to 
     forward several questions per panel into the live discussions.  Send 
     you questions and ongoing comments to the Summit at:

               <summit@tmn.com>

*    Followup activities and organizing efforts have already begun. 
     Please let us know how you would like to get involved.  
     Remember:  The public doesn't get the chance to design new 
     infrastructure very often.


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Center for Civic Networking                        Richard Civille
P.O. Box 65272                                     Washington Director
Washington, DC 20035                               rciville@civicnet.org
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