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: <summit@tmn.com> * Followup activities and organizing efforts have already begun. Please let us know how you would like to get involved. Remember: The public doesn't get the chance to design new infrastructure very often. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Center for Civic Networking Richard Civille P.O. Box 65272 Washington Director Washington, DC 20035 rciville@civicnet.org (202) 362-3831 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Stanton McCandlish * mech@eff.org * Electronic Frontier Found. OnlineActivist "In a Time/CN poll of 1,000 Americans conducted last week by Yankelovich Partners, two-thirds said it was more important to protect the privacy of phone calls than to preserve the ability of police to conduct wiretaps. When informed about the Clipper Chip, 80% said they opposed it." - Philip Elmer-Dewitt, "Who Should Keep the Keys", TIME, Mar. 14 1994