Good Morning! Please repost on other lists/online communities/community
networks you participate in if they are not receiving these announcements.
Here's the wave building around the Summit. More coming soon. Stay tuned:
* The Summit will take place Tuesday, March 29th from 8:30AM to 5:00
at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill.
* Attendance in DC is now over 600 people. We can take no further
registrations.
* Hundreds email messages and net postings have been generated around the
issues the Summit will address, and that's only the materials we've seen
on the few lists we can monitor with extremely limited resources. We've
heard from teachers in Columbia, network managers in Singapore,
Free-Nets in Canada, rural librarians, and citizen advisory groups
to state telecommunications initiatives to mention only a few.
* About 40 people around the country offered to help organize
offline discussion groups. To date, we've received reports from about a
dozen so far. At least one group now plans to conduct further NII
organizing activities in their state.
* Portions of the Summit will be broadcast live in 20 radio markets
around the country including major metropolitan areas. We will list the
participating radio stations sometime on Monday when the full list is
compiled.
* Nine foundations and the Administration's Information
Infrastructure Taskforce have directly contributed to the event.
* There is space on C-Span's Tuesday broadcast schedule for a
"public policy conference" but no commitment yet. This is not unusual
for C-Span. Please note that there is not a specific commitment from
C-Span to carry this event live. This is their normal way of handling
events.
* The Summit gopher will be announced tomorrow. We are VERY
interested in having your organization's gopher server establish a
pointer to the Summit gopher. Please let us know if you would like
to do this. We will announce the Summit gopher coordinates sometime on
Monday.
* The Summit Mosaic server will also be announced.
* The Summit panels and proceedings will be quickly summarized and
posted throughout the day to the Nets, to the Summit gopher and Mosaic
servers. We urge you to respond to these
summaries with SPECIFIC questions addressed to SPECIFIC panelists. We
will do our best to forward several questions per panel into the live
discussions. Send you questions and ongoing comments to the Summit at: