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From: Kent_Wada%UBC.MAILNET@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA
Subject: Human-Nets submission
I have been requested to post this announcement of a conference
concerning electronic mail in Canada to the Human-Nets mailing list.
Those not familiar with some of the acronyms used here may find the
following useful: IPATT - Inter-Provincial Association for
Telematics and Telidon; CUEBC - Computer Using Educators of British
Columbia; UBC - University of British Columbia. For more information,
please send to
PRATT Conference
North Island College
407 5th Street
Courtenay, B.C.
Canada V9N 1J7
or to
MAILNET/CDNnet: Roger_Hart@ubc.mailnet
BITNET: Roger_Hart@ubc.mailnet
ARPAnet/CSNET: Roger_Hart%ubc.mailnet@mit-multics.arpa
UUCP: ...!ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision!ubc.mailnet!Roger_Hart
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THE GREAT CANADIAN NETWORK DEBATE
February 20-21, 1986
At North Island College in Courtenay
Administrators and users face a somewhat bewildering range
of choices when deciding on a computer network. At present,
there are at least four major networks in operation:
CDNnet, DECnet, NetNorth and UUCP.
The Great Canadian Network Debate is the first in a series
of conferences being organized across the country in 1986,
under the aegis of IPATT. It represents the first time that
experts of all the four existing networks have been brought
together at one conference to address the question: "How can
we work together to best serve the needs of the user?'
The conference will therefore be of interest to anyone con-
sidering networking:
- the expert who is fully conversant with the
technical details of one or more systems;
- the teacher or librarian who has just realised
how useful it would be if he or she could only
exchange information electronically with
colleagues with a similar interest;
- the administrator who must make decisions in
the face of conflicting claims and demands.
Although the speakers at the GCND will be acknowledged ex-
perts on one or more systems, there will be a deliberate ef-
fort to have them express their ideas and concerns in non-
technical language, so that even newcomers to networking
will have an opportunity to participate in the debate, and
help shape a policy which will satisfy the broadest section
of the Canadian public sector.
Program Outline
FEBRUARY 20: WHO, HOW AND HOW MUCH
This day is designed to present reports from those who have
already utilized networks and can speak from some experience
about current and future needs, problems and possibilities.
Westerly Hotel/North Island College -- Workshops
1. Practical Uses (9:00-10:00, 1:00-2:00)
a) Teacher Organizations:
Gary Shearman has managed the CUEBC group of users of the
MTS Forum and Message services provided by UBC.
b) Research:
Lyle Robertson has been using networks intensively for his
work on high-level physics at TRIUMF and CERN. He will
speak on the use of international networks and the transfer
of large files.
c) Teaching: Standard Content
Fred Wah has utilized the VAX system to facilitate the
teaching of Creative Writing in an open learning fashion.
He is also an editor of SwiftCurrent, the literary network
which uses a UNIX system at York University linking some 200
writers across Canada.
d) Teaching: CBT Content
Don Cowper is a long-time user of the UNIX network and has
recently incorporated CBT and networking in an innovative
fashion at NIC. The current configuration links 5 mini-com-
puters in various communities on Vancouver Island.
COFFEE (10:00-10:15, 2:00-2:30)
2. Innovative Uses (10:15-11:15, 2:30-3:30)
a) Widely Distributed Interest Groups:
Gerri Sinclair recently helped organize the World LOGO Con-
ference linking a local conference in Paradise Valley with
LOGO groups around the world.
b) Community Groups:
Bruce Lund is from the Secretary of State Vancouver Island
office and is very interested in using networks to link and
activate local community groups.
c) Students:
Janet Morton is a counsellor at Shoreline Community School
in Victoria, who is involved in the RAPPI project which
links some 60 schools in Canada, France, Italy and the U.K.
3. The MTS Common Ground. *FORUM, $MESSAGE and Mailnet at
UBC (11:30-12:00)
Al Fowler is the Director of the Computing Centre at UBC and
has played a major role in the development of mail, file-
transfer and conference service there. He will speak on
cost/benefit and management factors of these services from
an administrative (but supportive) point of view.
LUNCH (12:00-1:00)
4. Hands-on Workshops (9:00-10:00, 10:15-11:15, 1:00-2:00,
2:15-3:15, 3:30-4:30)
Group scheduling for these workshops on specific systems
will be arranged in accordance with indicated responses from
participants. If it is necessary to use more than one site
for these presentations, trasnportation will be provided at
scheduled times.
DINNER -- Westerly Hotel
(7:00-8:00) Cash Bar
(8:00-11:00) Dinner
Welcome -- Alice M. Chiko, Chairman of North Island College
Board
Speaker -- Walter Hardwick
"Networking and the Open Learning Authority"
FEBRUARY 21: THE DEBATE
Westerly Hotel
Chairman: Dennis Wing, Principal, North Island
College
(9:00-9:30) Networks in Canada: The Current
Situation.
Roger Hart
(9:30-10:00) NetNorth.
Dale Bent, University of Alberta
(10:00-10:30) DECNet.
Derek Chambers, Cariboo College
(10:30-10:45) Specific questions on NETNorth and
DECNet.
(10:45-11:00) COFFEE
(11:00-11:30) EAN.
Paul Gilmore, Computer Science, UBC
(11:30-12:00) UNIX/UUCP.
Rayan Zachariassen, University of
Toronto
(12:00-12:30) CDNnet.
Jeff Berryman and John Demco, CDNnet
HQ, UBC
(12:30-1:30) LUNCH
(1:30-2:00) Draft Plan of Action.
PRATT Executive
(2:00-3:00) Discussion.
(3:00-3:30) COFFEE
(3:30-4:30) Resolutions.
Fee Schedule:
Feb. 21
Conference Fee
(includes Thursday dinner
and Friday lunch): $75
Feb. 20
Workshops Fee
(includes Thursday lunch): $20
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