************************************************************************** NETWORKS AND COMMUNITY : July 17,1994 ************************************************************************** Networks and Community is devoted to encouraging LOCAL resource creation & GLOBAL resource sharing. ************************************************************************** The 24th Report of 1994 is the 30th Weekly Survey. ************************************************************************** ************************************************************************** Coverage in this issue includes: Notes Global Community News From The World Tools WWW Guide to Civic Networking New Usenet Group Classes & Meetings ########################################################################### Notes ########################################################################### I'm b-a-a-a-c-k!!! (Gee, I hope Jack Nicholson doesn't sue me for stealing his line.) It's been a busy 3 weeks. My niece is doing well, my ribs are feeling better, and I have started a new job. Now I can get back to writing this newsletter. I apologize for the delays and beg your forgiveness! I am starting to make the changes in the newsletter that I promised earlier in the year. Within the next month I will be providing more of the content myself versus the cut and paste of Edupage, etc. If their are any aspiring writers out there (you know who you are!) send me articles for inclusion. Until next week... -steve covington ########################################################################## Global Community ########################################################################## *** I thought that this might be of interest to you all. -steve From: EDCIVIC@delphi.com Subject: Social Contract Project and Networking To: civic-values@civic.net Reply-To: civic-values@civic.net It occurs to me that an aspect of the Social Contract Project that I mentioned in passing in my post to Pat relates to various conversations here and on Communet relating to the possibilities of this medium. Though we began developing the project in Philadelphia three years ago, it was always our intent to try to gain interest in using this technique around the country. Through my involvement in the National Community Development Association, representing local community development coordinators, there are various cities that might be interested. Beyond this, people from Baltimore and Albuqerque have exchanged correspondence with us on the program. It was in response to trying to figure out how we could provide support to such people and groups that I decided to check out the possibilities of the Internet. Here was a way, I imagined, that people working in local areas on a particular program could support one another without having to get on planes every month. People here have speculated how community networking might be used to advance real work beyond the kind of exchanges that we already have. Well, here's one activist who came to this media with that in mind. So the offer is open to Civic-Values list members--and anyone else you think should know about it. If you think that developing social contracts in your community along the lines that I describe in my posts on Queen Village, etc., would make a positive contribution to building community in your area, we are prepared to build a national network through this medium of groups and people involved in the process. Who knows? Perhaps this should be one of the ongoing themes within this list itself, among the many projects ought to be of interest to us here. Ed Schwartz, Institute for the Study of Civic Values, 1218 Chestnut St., Rm. 702, Philadelphia, Pa. 19107 215-238-1434 edcivic@delphi.com "Citizenship is the American ideal. There may be an army of actualities opposed to that ideal, but there is no ideal opposed to that ideal." --G.K. Chesterton ######################################################################## NEWS of the WIRED & WEIRD **** Culled from various sources ########################################################################## From: Gleason Sackman Subject: JEWEL> INTERNET RELATED DOCS (fwd) To: net-happenings Sender: owner-net-happenings@is.internic.net ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 10 Jul 94 21:47:33 CDT From:david.riggins@tpoint.com To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: INTERNET RELATED DOCS An interesting collection of Internet related documents and resources. Lite and friendly...good resource for the new user. I found this pointer on another gopher, but it seems to be located on The Internet Company (Cambridge,MA) gopher. --> 1. Dern's Internet Info, News and Views - About This Directory. 2. What's New (partial list, done by hand). 3. Semi-Poetic Justice: We've Grepped a Little List. 4. Please Read!. 5. Internet Learner's Permit, Net.Buddy System, Etc./ 6. Boston Globe VOXBOX (by Dern) menus, text and info/ 7. Internet News and Views - "All The News That's Fit To Grep"/ 8. Useful Internet Lists and other Info/ 9. Humor From, On, About and By the Internet/ 10. "Under Deconstruction - Soft hats required"/ 11. The Internet Guide for New Users by Daniel Dern/ 12. Boom Tubes and Stepping Disks (To Interesting Places)/ 13. Plugh/ 14. A Pointer Back To Internet.Com/ 15. Other Interesting Stuff (From the UMinn gopher menu)/ Type=1 Name=Dern's Internet Info, News and Views Path=1/ Host=gopher.internet.com Port=2200 URL: gopher://gopher.internet.com:2200/11/ ******************************************************************** I do not represent this site...I just found it and thought it would be of interest. I make every attempt to identify the point of origin on every site I find. If I have made an error, please let me know. Also, I assume everyone reading this post will access the site via gopher. I have no idea (and do not attempt to find out) if the site supports public telnet access. David Riggins Gopher Jewels Project david.riggins@tpoint.com ########################################################################## TOOLS= TCP-IP for Internet Access ########################################################################## From: Harry M. Kriz To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L Subject: Windows and TCP/IP for Internet Access ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I have issued an update of my paper on using Windows software for accessing internet resources. This release contains new material on basic internet functions and services, as well as updated information on shareware clients. An abstract of the paper is included at the end of this note. The complete document in ASCII format is about 52,000 bytes. It is available by anonymous ftp from: nebula.lib.vt.edu in directory /pub/windows/winsock under filename wtcpip05.asc Revised: June 21, 1994 Release 05 -------------------------------------- WINDOWS AND TCP/IP FOR INTERNET ACCESS -------- ABSTRACT Internet, the global network of computer networks, is arousing enormous popular interest. In part, this interest is being driven by the availability of free or inexpensive shareware software for Microsoft Windows. It is now technically simple for a personal computer to become a host on the internet. The casual user can find, retrieve, and view information gathered from around the world without having to learn complicated computer commands. In this paper, I describe the principal functions and services available via the internet. Then I outline the technical background and terminology needed by the beginner who wants to make his PC a host on the internet. Finally, I describe several Windows software packages and programs that facilitate using internet services. All the software is freely available over the internet. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Harry M. Kriz hmkriz@vt.edu 703-231-7052 FAX: 703-231-3694 University Libraries Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) Blacksburg, VA 24061-0434 USA ########################################################################## WWW Guide to Civic Networking ########################################################################## Sender: "Communet: Community and Civic Network Discussion List" From: Catherine Kummer Subject: Update - WWW Guide to Civic Networking The WWW Guide to Civic Networking has a new URL - http://http2.sils.umich.edu/ILS/community.html I appreciate the comments and suggestions I have received and I apologize for the confusion over the address change. Thanks - Catherine Kummer ########################################################################## New Usenet Group = Soc.org.nonprofit ########################################################################## Newsgroups: soc.org.nonprofit Path: netcom.com!netcomsv!decwrl!gatekeeper.us.oracle.com!sgiblab!news.cs.indiana.edu !mchui@cs.indiana.edu From: "Michael Chui" Subject: Soc.org.nonprofit Charter Message-ID: <1994Jul5.163749.923@news.cs.indiana.edu> Keywords: nonprofit charter Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University Date: Tue, 5 Jul 1994 16:37:44 -0500 Lines: 17 Management of nonprofit organizations, fundraising, grant resources, building business/nonprofit partnerships, volunteer recruitment techniques, critical evaluation of nonprofit organizations, donor concerns, client issues (e.g. privacy), the role of nonprofits in the online world and how to use online resources to strengthen nonprofit agencies and promote wise giving practices. The group will soon be bidirectionally gatewayed to the mailing list usnonprofit-l@rain.org. Michael Chui mchui@cs.indiana.edu P.S. While the topic of fundraising is mentioned in the charter, it would probably be better to discuss the issue of fundraising on this newsgroup, rather than using it as a medium for solicitation. -- ########################################################################## Classes & Meetings ########################################################################## From: Gleason Sackman Subject: MEET> Internationall Meeting On Community Commun. via e-mail (fwd) To: net-happenings Sender: owner-net-happenings@is.internic.net Precedence: bulk ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 10 Jul 1994 22:25:40 -0600 (MDT) SENDER: carmen linda gonzales Subject: Community Communication in Latin America (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 10 Jul 1994 12:27:25 -0400 (AST) From: Pedro Lopez C. To: carmen@triton.unm.edu Subject: Community Communication INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON COMMUNITY COMMUNICATION Is there a VIRTUAL COMMUNITY? What is it and where is it? How do you become part of it? What role does that VIRTUAL COMMUNITY play and will play in shaping the changes that are being called for? Can South American countries be a part of this GLOBAL COMMUNITY? Is there any priority being given to upgrading the obsolete telecommunications infrastructure in countries like Venezuela so they can be a part of such a COMMUNITY? Who is opposed to that change and why? Do the members of that VIRTUAL COMMUNITY have anything to say about the crisis in COMMUNITIES in general, and in Venezuelan communities in particular? Why haven't Latin American governments decided to use ISDN? What role do social communicators play in the IDENTIFICATION AND SOLUTION of the problems with old community forms that are the background of the NEW VIRTUAL COMMUNITY? Can the new technologies dissolve the old North/South disparities or will they accentuate ideological differences? Does it make sense to continue the old nationalistic discourse in the new world-wide circumstances and with the interchange of digital information? Are liberty of expression, voluntary search for identity with similar groups, and free use of social communication for the exchange of information and private opinion, compatible with the monopolies and lobbies of organized journalists and/or media impresarios? +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON COMMUNITY COMMUNICATION +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Pampero Ecological Foundations, the Venezuela Neighbor's School, among others, invite all the VIRTUAL COMMUNITY to participate in the first INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON COMMUNITY COMMUNICATION by responding to any of the topics listed above, or any others that you propose by E-mail. *************************************************************************** To participate all you have to do is send an E-mail message to plopez@conicit.ve *************************************************************************** Please be BRIEF, DIRECT AND SIMPLE.:-) Present your *private electronic opinion*. In Venezuela we also want to know points of view from the VIRTUAL COMMUNITY on the problems that beset all communities. We want to hear the murmur of the computers whenever they may be connected to minds that are functioning. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The messages that are received will be shared with an audience of 400 participants made up of journalists, neighbors, artists and social communicators from Venezuela and other parts of the planet. They are part of the documented record OF THE COMMUNICATION EXPERIENCE IN CYBERSPACE that is being realized in the context of the meeting. We think that considerable discussion will be stimulated. The event will take place at the Romulo Gallegos Center for Latin American Studies in the city of Caracas, Venezuela, on July 11 and 12, 1994. It is proposed that wide-opened discussions will be stimulated that include citizens, pioneers, the new visionary communicators that are part of the VIRTUAL COMMUNITY. GET CONNECTED, by just mentioning those two words. Messages are received 24 hours a day at plopez@conicit.ve For more information outside of cyberspace, contact: Pedro Lopez Turagua Center for Art and Communication (CACTu) voice/fax: (58 43) 618741 ########################################################################## ########################################################################## NETWORKS and COMMUNITY is a result of the work of people located throughout the global Internet community. Net facilities for the preparation of this newsletter are provided by NETCOM On-line Communications Service, Inc. Editing is done by myself. 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