From: jsq@tic.com ("John S. Quarterman")
Subject: EFF-Austin Public Forum, The Net, 28 Sept., 6-9PM, at MCC
Originator: riddle@aahsa.tic.com
X-Submissions: eff-austin@tic.com
Organization: none
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 23:16:23 GMT

Meeting notice           EFF-Austin      Please redistribute
                        Public Forum

                Monday, 28 September, 6-9PM
       Location: MCC (NW corner of Mopac and Braker)

                          The Net
     What is it, Where is it, Who uses it, and for What
               UUCP, FidoNet, BITNET, USENET
   NSFNET, ANSNet, CO+RE; PSINet, Alternet, CERFNET, CIX
                   NREN and the Internet
                         the Matrix

John Quarterman and Smoot Carl-Mitchell, TIC and MIDS, Austin
          Anna Couey, art networker, San Francisco

     Do you need FTP to do USENET?  If you can send mail,
are you on the Internet?  How many users are there, on which
nets and where?  What can they do with their networks (mail,
lists, and news; remote login, file transfer, and databases;
archie, WAIS, and gopher; technical collaboration, social
and political activism, and art)?  How can non-institutional
or non-technical users get access?  Where do the WELL, TMN,
IGC, CompuServe, and Prodigy fit in?

     Bring your own questions; we will try to answer them.
We will show network maps.  We will demonstrate some
Internet services online, thanks to MCC.

     All are welcome. Here is an opportunity for all the
different types and levels of computer users to meet,
mingle, and learn.  Non-members are encouraged to attend.
EFF-Austin officers and others will speak briefly at the
beginning.

EFF-Austin meetings

     EFF-Austin holds monthly meetings, alternating
presentations with Cyberdawgs.  A Cyberdawg is an informal
meeting with no speaker or program.  The current EFF-Austin
meeting schedule is:

when       what               speakers or organizer contact
_____________________________________________________________________________
28 Sept.   The Net            John S. Quarterman    tic@tic.com
                              Smoot Carl-Mitchell
                              Anna Couey

October    Cyberdawg                                donna@wixer.cactus.org
November   Hacker Crackdown   Bruce Sterling        cisco@utxvm.cc.utexas.edu
December   Cyberdawg                                donna@wixer.cactus.org
January    Sysop Liability    Ed Cavazos            polekat@tic.com

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Background Information on EFF-Austin

     We are a group of local computer and network users,
programmers, and others.  We are the first (and only) local
chapter of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the national
organization founded by Mitch Kapor, John Barlow, John
Gilmore, and Steve Wozniak.

The goals of EFF-Austin:

*    to engage in and support educational activities that
     increase understanding of the opportunities and
     challenges posed by computing and telecommunications
     and related civil liberties issues;

*    to foster a clearer social understanding of the issues
     underlying free and open telecommunications;

*    to facilitate and encourage communication between
     individuals interested in computer and
     telecommunication technology and related social and
     legal issues.

The EFF-Austin Board of Directors currently includes:

        John S. Quarterman, author of _The Matrix_
        Steve Jackson, game publisher
        Smoot Carl-Mitchell, former Austin city council member
        Matt Lawrence, software developer
        Ed Cavazos, sysop of The Bamboo Gardens

Contacts

     If you have any questions about this meeting, please
send mail to tic@tic.com.

     EFF-Austin sponsors a newsgroup, austin.eff, which is
crosslinked with the mailing list eff-austin@tic.com. To get
on that list, send mail to eff-austin-request@tic.com.

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