Francophones to help francophones into new freenets by Jules Lafrance Realtime Online Ottawa - 1600 hr, August 16, 1994. A discussion group made up of participants from many places inside and outside of Ottawa discussed the type of input that Canada Telecommunities could and should provide to groups planning new freenets. These include: - the development of norms which will facilitate the use of French on freenets; - the facilitating of methods for inscribing bilingual material. There is a requirement for Government documentation to be issued in both languages; - the recruiting of people who will look after the needs of francophones in forming committees whose areas of interest include locations where French is significantly present; - the formation of technical subcommittees who will ensure the adoption of types of equipment and software which satisfy the particular requirements of the French language. - the publicising among new users (new French buyers) the preference they should give to equipment and software which support the ISO 8859-1 (Latin1), and to a CSA approved keyboard (for use in all languages) which are now the accepted standards for use of accented characters and diacritics. -- Realtime Online - Professional Conference Reporting Team Rosaleen Dickson, Ottawa ac174@freenet.carleton.ca. Pierre Bourque, Michel Careau, Shady Kanfi, Charles King, Andrea Kujala, Jules Lafrance, Bruce MacDonald, Robt Rattey, Natalie Roth, Michael Silvestrini, Stephen Toy.