FINAL AGENDA 2.4: August 17, 1994 CANADIAN COMMUNITY NETWORKS
CONFERENCE and founding meeting of TELECOMMUNITIES CANADA
August 15-17, 1994 Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
Sponsored by: - Industry Canada - Treasury Board Secretariat
- Morino Institute - Ontario, Culture, Tourism and
Recreation; Libraries and Community Information Branch -
Ontario, Economic Development and Trade; Information
Infrastructure Branch - Rogers Ottawa - National Capital
FreeNet THE CONFERENCE CREW: Chairman: David Sutherland
(aa001@freenet.carleton.ca), Director, Computing and
Communications Services, Carleton University; and President,
National Capital FreeNet Inc. Program coordination: Garth
Graham (aa127@freenet.carleton.ca) Site administration:
Miranda Gray (ak717@freenet.carleton.ca) Registration: Tom
Riley (76470.336@compuserve.com) Realtime Online Recording
Team: Rosaleen Dickson (ac174@freenet.carleton.ca) or
(rosaleen@resudox.net) Stephen Toy
(aa102@freenet.carleton.ca), Conference menu / gopher site
admin. Technical Team: Brian Monkman
(brian_monkman@ottawa.sterling.com) or
(af088@freenet.carleton.ca) Nominations / Recommendations
Committee - Lisa K. Donnelly, NCF Interim Director of Ops
(am412@freenet.carleton.ca) - Gordon Pearson, NCF Director of
Development (au167@freenet.carleton.ca) Working Group
Discussion Moderators: (Discussion group rooms: University
Commons Building) A (Room 211) - Julie Chahal (
ab161@freenet.carleton.ca) B (Room 212) - Lynda Williams
(lynda@freenet.unbc.edu) C (Room 213) - Louise McGillis
(mcgillis@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) D (Room 224) - John Norman
(John_G._Norman@TVO.ORG) E (Room 100, St. Pats Bldg) - Chris
Bradshaw (aa122@freenet.carleton.ca) Moderators for
participant selected discussions : Group I: (Room 211) Uses
and purposes: Don Richardson (drichard@tdg.uoguelph.ca) Group
II: (Room 212) Sustainability: Gareth Shearman
(shearman@freenet.victoria.bc.ca ) Group III: (Room 213)
Future technology directions: Andrew Patrick
(aa118@freenet.carleton.ca) Group IV: (Room 224) Francophone
services: Andre Laurendeau (andrel@nash.pubnix.qc.ca) This
conference was action oriented. In addition to panel
presentations, conference participants had the opportunity to
participate in working group discussions to develop "action
agendas" addressing key issues in the development of
community networks. The action agendas directly affected the
priorities of Telecommunities Canada concerning issues of
national support. There is a conference submenu / gopher on
National Capital FreeNet, and the conference summary is
posted to it. DAY ONE Sunday, August 14 6:00 - 7:00 pm
REGISTRATION * Carleton Tour and Conference Centre,
University Commons Building, by the Residence Commons
Registration Desk 6:00 - 6:45 CHAIRMAN'S MEETING WITH
SPEAKERS, MODERATORS AND RECORDERS * University Commons
Building, Room 213 7:00 - 9:00 pm RECEPTION AND CASH BAR *
Multipurpose room, Stormont House DAY TWO Monday, August 15
ALL CONFERENCE PLENARY SESSIONS AND THE TELECOMMUNITIES
CANADA MEETING WILL BE HELD IN FENN LOUNGE, UNIVERSITY
COMMONS 8:00 - 9:00 am REGISTRATION * Foyer of Fenn Lounge,
University Commons Building 9:00 - 10:00 am PLENARY SESSION -
* Conference overview: David Sutherland, Conference Chairman
* Welcome: Parke Davis, Director General,Information Highway
Advisory Council Secretariat. * Nominating and
recommendations process, Telecommunities Canada meeting,
Garth Graham * Introduction of the Realtime Online Recording
Team, Rosaleen Dickson. * Keynote speaker: Mark Surman
(msurman@io.org) Writer, media critic, community television
production teacher and information activist. "Social activism
and the electronic commons: from community television to
freenets." 10:00 - 10:15 am Refreshment break 10:15 - 11:15
am FREE-NET RESEARCH ON USE AND DEMOGRAPHICS * Andrew Patrick
and Alex Black, (al@debra.dgbt.doc.ca ), Communications
Research Centre. "National Capital FreeNet uses and users:
research methods and preliminary results." * Leslie Regan
Shade (ac900@freenet.carleton.ca) or (shade@well.com). McGill
University, Grad. Program in Communications. E-Connections:
an ONIP sponsored feasibility study to investigate email and
other internetworking technologies for Ontario nonprofits. *
Pieter Tops, Professor (p.e.w.m.tops@kub.nl) Kees Schalken.
Phd-student (c.a.t.schalken@kub.nl) Department of policy
science, Tilburg University, , Netherlands. 'The digital
city, local democracy in a Dutch virtual community' Reporting
on research about a Dutch 'freenet'-experiment located in
Amsterdam, called the "the digital city". This includes a
survey of 1200 participants about their backgrounds and
interests, and analyses the impact of freenets on democratic
decision-making and local economic development. 11:15 - 12:15
pm PARTNERSHIPS IN PUBLIC ACCESS: LEARNING TO USE THE MEDIUM
* Rory McGreal (rmcgreal@unb.ca), TeleEducation, New
Brunswick "The Subcommittee on Learning and Training,
Information Highway Advisory Council." * Karen Kostaszek
(karen@ccs.carleton.ca OR aa165@freenet.carleton.ca),
Director, SchoolNet Support Group, and President, Ingenia
Communications Corporation "SchoolNets, educational
networking, and common goals with Canadian community
networks." * Lynda Williams (lynda@freenet.unbc.edu),
President, P.G. Free-Net, Prince George, B.C. "Rural access,
public libraries and Free-Nets" 12:15 - 1:30 pm Lunch
(Conference supplied): Picnic; Residence Quad 1:30 - 2: 25 pm
PLENARY SESSION - * Keynote speaker: Sam Sternberg
(samsam@vm1.yorku.ca) Community Nets Activist. "Earth is a
local dialing zone: the economics of flat-rate access." *
Keynote speaker: Marita Moll (aa319@freenet.carleton.ca)
Public Advisory Council on Information Highway Policy, and
Research and Information Services, Canadian Teachers'
Federation. "Virtual Lobby: moderating a public policy forum
on the can.infohighway Newsgroup." * Keynote speaker: John
O'Hara (sbln@sbln.demon.co.uk), "The South Bristol Learning
Centre." 2:25 - 3:10 pm MANAGING COMMUNITY NETWORKS * Kyla
Huckerby (aa309@freenet.carleton.ca), Office Manager,
National Capital FreeNet * John Hall, Project Manager,
Metropolitan Edmonton Information Network (MEIN) * Rick
Broadhead (rickb@nexus.yorku.ca), Executive Director, Toronto
Free-Net 3:10 - 3:30 pm Refreshment break 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Working group discussions 7:00 - 9:00 pm DINNER * Keynote
Speaker: David Johnston. Chair, The Advisory Council on the
Information HIghway, Government of Canada. "The Information
Highway and Free-Nets (working title)." Location:
Multipurpose Room, first floor, Stormont Bldg DAY THREE
Tuesday, August 16 9:00 - 10:15 am SEEKING SOLID GROUND (A):
SUSTAINABLE ORGANIZATIONAL MODELS * Roger Hart
(rh@teleconsult.com), Senior Consultant, Teleconsult Limited,
Victoria B.C. "Evolving Freenets into a Ubiquitous Community
Service -- the Industry Canada Sustainability Study" * John
Stevenson (jstevens@tdg.res.uoguelph.ca), Telecommunity
Development Group, Guelph, "FreeSpace organizational model."
* Kaye Gapen (kgapen@morino.org), Director of Research
Services, The Morino Institute, Great Falls, Virginia. The
Morino Institute and the Evolution of Community Networking
10:15 - 10:30 am Refreshment break 10:30 - 11:30 am SEEKING
SOLID GROUND (B): PROVINCIAL / FEDERAL PERSPECTIVES ON
COMMUNITY NETWORK DEVELOPMENT * Gareth R. Shearman
(shearman@freenet.victoria.bc.ca ) President, British
Columbia FreeNet Association "Provincial overview of
Free-Nets in British Columbia" * Angela Vassos
(vassoaa@gov.on.ca), Libraries and Community Information
Branch, Ontario Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Recreation.
"How Ontario thinks about Free-Nets." * Andrew Siman,
Director, Communications Development Directorate, Industry
Canada. "Community network access: the role of the Government
of Canada." * Michael Gillespie, Vice President, Blue Sky
FreeNet (michaelg@freenet.mb.ca), "Manitoba province-wide
linkage plan." 11:30 - 12:15 pm Working group discussions
12:15 - 1:30 pm Lunch (Conference supplied): Picnic;
Residence Quad 1:30 - 2:30 pm COMMUNITY NETS SOFTWARE: FUTURE
DIRECTIONS * Andrew Patrick (aa118@freenet.carleton.ca),
Panel moderator, Communications Research Centre and NCF Vice
President "Community network software: an overview." * David
Trueman (david@cs.dal.ca ), Chebucto technical lead,
"Experience with Chebucto Suite." * Greg Searle
(searle@tdg.uoguelph.ca), Consultant, Developer, Programmer,
Telecommunity Development Group, Guelph "Development of the
FreeSpace graphical user interface." * Ian Duncan
(id@cc.mcgill.ca), McGill University Computing Centre, and
E-Connections (an ONIP sponsored project), "Technical choices
for networked community activities." 2:30 - 3:00 pm PLENARY
SESSION * Keynote speaker: Ken Stein, Canadian Cable TV
Association 3:00 - 3:15 pm Refreshment break 3:15 - 4:15
PARTICIPANT SELECTED FOCUSED WORKING GROUP DISCUSSIONS *
GROUP I: What are Free-Nets for? - uses and purposes
Moderator: Don Richardson (drichard@tdg.uoguelph.ca) * GROUP
II: Sustainability and finance Moderator: Gareth Shearman
(shearman@freenet.victoria.bc.ca ) * GROUP III: Future
directions in Community Network technology Moderator: Andrew
Patrick (aa118@freenet.carleton.ca) * GROUP IV: Libertel;
services for Francophone communities Moderator: Andre
Laurendeau (andrel@nash.pubnix.qc.ca), Le Reseau Electronique
du Montreal Metropolitain 4:15 - 4:30 pm PLENARY SESSION: *
Conference conclusion and planning of Telecommunities Canada
meeting Evening: TELECOMMUNITIES CANADA REPS OF COMMUNITY
NETWORKS MEETING * Finalize TC agenda and elections process
DAY FOUR: TELECOMMUNITIES CANADA FOUNDING MEETING Wednesday,
August 17 9:00 am - 3:00 pm - Issues and priorities
discussion - Election of seven board members - Wrap up
session including remarks from incoming officers -- Garth
Graham aa127@freenet.carleton.ca Coordinator, Canadian
Community Networks Conference, and founding meeting,
Telecommunities Canada, Aug. 15-17, 1994 Box 86, Ashton,
Ont., K0A 1B0, 613-253-3497