HARPER@CSC.FI ("Robert Harper Finland", CSC) (04/08/91)
! OBS ! that all followup articles are now directed to comp.edu, please change your Newsgroups: line if you want to respond in another group. In Finnish: Suomenkieliset jutut sfnet.keskusteluun, kiitos. EST DST is Eastern Standard Time (Cleveland, Ohio) = GMT DST - 5h EET DST is East European Time (Finland) = GMT DST + 2h (DST = Daylight Saving Time) Here is a breaf overview of what will happen on Monday. This is very much HUT (Helsinki University of Technology) dominated, as I will be here. 08.15 EST DST = 15.15 EET DST * First weather reports to Academy One from Finland and Cleveland. (California still fast asleep) 08.30 EST DST = 15.30 EET DST * SHUTTLE LAUNCH from Cleveland, Ohio (University School) The mission begins. After this the alternative landing sites will send weather reports on the hour. I am not quite sure how often the shuttle will communicate with Spce Mission Control at University School, but I suspect it will be much more often. The Solar Disturbance Monitoring Centre will probably also report everu hour or half-an-hour. The mission will be monitored for one hour from HUT, all the guests (including all the main media in Finland) will be online watching. 09.30 EST DST = 16.30 EET DST * Real-life (not cyberspace) Presentation of the Finnish MAP Project (Schools' new media, partly email, partly Hypercard), at Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo Finland (class Y198 at Main Building). Discussion of schools and computers. You may come in and listen, but please try to avoid disturbing. 10.00 EST DST = 17.00 EET DST * Initialization of +SPACE_M and +SPACE_d on IRC. PLEASE READ THE INSTRUCTIONS IN ARTICLE 4 BEFORE YOU TRY TO JOIN +SPACE_M! It is the first time we try to use IRC in a coordinated manner, so have patience. +SPACE_d is a normal public channel, though. Use it, if you don't want to hassel with strict channel rules and invite-only (+SPACE_M will be /MODE * +itn). If you join +SPACE, you will receive a "Channel Rules" private message from a channel op. Any non-operator using /INVITE on +SPACE_M will be mercilessly first /KICKed (with a following explanation) and, if the offence happens again, /KILLed. The channel +SPACE_M will be used for one hour from HUT (maybe even other places), the guests still on-line. 11.00 EST DST = 18.00 EET DST * Helsingin Sanomat, the biggest national newspaper in Finland, arrives. The HUT guest group go into Academy One again for one hour. 12.00 EST DST = 19.00 EET DST * The second IRC session begins. It's +SPACE_M and +SPACE_d again. This also lasts for one hour. 13.00 EST DST = 20.00 EET DST * HUT formal operations end as the university buildings close for the night. The still remaining guests move from Y198 upstairs, order pizza, roll their sleeves, let their hair down and start some _serious_ networking, alternating Academy One, IRC, telephone calls, faxes & stuff. (Ed. note: this is when the actual fun begins, I would think: I will have the possibility to be in IRC all the time now, for ex. as I will get windows instead of a dumb terminal). Responce times from HUT will probably go down a bit: I think we wil also discuss stuff here face-to-face. But we will be on the Net, have no fear. 16.30 EST DST = 22.30 EET DST * The shuttle lands. The mission is over. * I finally get to go home :-) WELCOME TO CYBERSPACE WITH US! ...and wish us luck... Paivi @ Paivi Hyvarinen @ Net: Paivi.Hyvarinen@hut.fi @ @ Comp. Sci. Major, Occup. Psych. minor @ @ @ Data Guild, Helsinki Univ. of Technology @ Also on Cleveland Freenet: @ @ Otakaari 1 M, SF-02150 Espoo, Finland @ an614, mail forward -> HUT @