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Grex Internet Item 156: Proposal to restart & refocus the Internet/Network conference
Entered by krj on Tue Jun 5 16:43:57 UTC 2001:

In coop conference item 6 (item:coop,6) I have entered a proposal to 
archive this current Internet conference (presumably as "Internet1"),
and to restart and refocus this conference.
 
Discussions of what the general public can do with the Internet 
-- especially what could be done in the 1990s -- have become of 
historic interest.  I want to start a nuts-and-bolts conference
for discussions of how to make various pieces of the network 
operate.  My hope is that we can pick a little bit of the brains 
of people who work on network issues professionally, and offer 
a lifeline to people who have been called upon to make networking 
work (either at work or at home) and who are scrambling for resources.
 
I propose that the conference have a new alias as the Network cf, 
so that either "bbs internet" or "bbs network" would get here.
I propose to delete Chris Bartlett (bartlett) as fw, since his account
is reaped, and also to delete ecy, who !finger says hasn't logged on 
since December.  I nominate myself to be co-fw with Jeff Kaplan,
current FW.

11 responses total.

#1 of 11 by kaplan on Tue Jun 5 21:59:49 2001:

Everything Ken said sounds fine to me.  The conference has been so quiet
lately, I think there's some hope that Ken's plan will breathe some life into
the place.

#2 of 11 by ecy on Wed Jun 6 00:18:09 2001:

Thanks for the email.  I certainly haven't done nearly enough to be a FW
so removing me is a good idea.  If the cf has been quiet, and if what people
originally talked about isn't germane any longer, could the potential topics
be handled in extant cf without starting a new one?

#3 of 11 by ecy on Wed Jun 6 00:18:58 2001:

December, huh?  Time flies.

#4 of 11 by krj on Wed Jun 6 02:14:04 2001:

Ann Arbor conferencing theory holds that eventually a large mass of dead
items overwhelms newcomers to any conference.  This is why the general 
conferences are restarted regularly.   I think that has happened to 
this conference.
 
((In the other conference I host, music, I have proposed a restart several 
times, and each time the users shout me down.  However, music is one of the 
more active specialty conferences, so I haven't felt that I need to push
the issue.))
 
Note that nothing in this conference will be destroyed; it will all remain
available as "internet1" or "oldinternet" for as long as Grex lasts,
most likely.
 
And I certainly have no reason to sweep ecy out as FW if he'd like to 
stick around.  (Hi, nice to meet you!)

#5 of 11 by albaugh on Thu Jun 7 06:59:38 2001:

I'm all for "stretching" ("redefining") existing conferences instead of
creating more too-narrowly-specialized conferences.  So I would be in favor
of this proposal.

#6 of 11 by krj on Fri Jun 8 05:17:23 2001:

OK, I'm busy this week, I'll talk to Jeff about my thoughts on next week's
Grexwalk, I expect.

#7 of 11 by kaplan on Fri Jun 8 13:30:17 2001:

Yes, I am planning to attend the walk tomorrow.  See you then.

#8 of 11 by krj on Sun Jun 10 05:44:49 2001:

No, that was "this week's" walk.  :/
I'm tied up until Thursday June 14 at the earliest.

#9 of 11 by kaplan on Thu Jun 14 13:30:59 2001:

OK.  I'm planning to walk this week too....

#10 of 11 by krj on Tue Jun 26 05:24:25 2001:

I'm sorry, life is overwhelming right now and I have no time to work 
on this for another week or two.

#11 of 11 by ecy on Thu Jul 5 01:10:04 2001:

Any talking I canhelp with, or planning?

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