ENA UPDATE
by Lisa Kimball

At the f-t-f ENA meeting in Philadelphia, we collected lots of
ideas for activities and a number of working groups were formed.
We will be continuing our work on these projects in the next year
and would love to have YOUR energy and expertise involved!

Contact Nan Hanahue, our ENA Membership Coordinator,
to find out how *you* can join and participate! (215) 821-7777

Here is a sampling of the project proposals submitted in
Philadelphia:

NETWORKING FORUM '89 IN JAPAN
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We are seriously considering to organize an international conference
of Networking next year (in April or May) in Japan. We hope ENA will
play a major role in preparing and organizing and making this
happen. We need *core* people who will be part of our team.

- Izumi Aizu

GLOBAL NETWORKING CLEARINGHOUSE
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We want to pool our ideas, info, experience in global networking to
help ourselves and others do it better, cheaper, quicker. Within our
members and their friends we have so much already including:

* cooperation for various global-oriented systems
* global activities
* globally-oriented conference e.g. Japan conf!!!

- Jeffrey Shapard

NETSPERANTO
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Let's start talking "netsperanto" including the concept of user
interface, interconnectivity of cc network commands, prompts,
structure, etc. from the USER's side.

- Hiro Nakamura

ENA TO SPONSOR ONLINE CONFERENCE PROMOTING COLLABORATION BETWEEN
BUSINESS AND CITIZEN COMMUNICATIONS DEVELOPMENT
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Many ENA members from business and citizen advocacy areas of
electronic communications will be joining in a public multi-system
'parallel' conference. This conference will explore common ground
and help form collaborations of mutual benefit between what often
seem to be divergent visions of the future of interactive
telecommunications.

- Kevin Axelson

NEXT ENA CONFERENCE BEING PLANNED
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The ENA meeting in Philadelphia announced that planning will begin
for its NEXT f-t-f conference. The tentative theme "Groupware - The
Next Wave - Computer Facilitated Work for Groups and Organizations"
was suggested. A conference location of Allentown, PA - the town
made famous by the singer, Billy Joel - is being explored. There's
also interest in having the conference in California.

- Ed Yarrish

AD HOC COMMITTEE TO EXPLORE STANDARDS FOR DISTRIBUTED
CONFERENCING
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Representatives of Caucus, Cosy, and Participate are planning an
online conference to design a set of standards for distributed
conferencing BETWEEN all these systems. EIES, Confer, and GENie
have also expressed interest.

- Charles Roth (Caucus), Margaret Ellis (Cosy),
George Reinhart (Participate)

NETWORKING ALLIANCE PROPOSED: BRINGING TWO INDUSTRIES TOGETHER
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Purpose: To develop cooperative marketing approaches between the
electronic data and people networking industries.

Approach: Use the skills and technologies of computer conferencing
to better inform lay managers on the benefits of electronic data
networking technologies.

Step 1: ENA members will attend Enterprise Networking Event '88, a
major data networking trade show, to evaluate the marketing
communications of the data networking industry.

- Skip Conover

PUBLISH NETWEAVER IN PRINT FOR WIDER DISSEMINATION OF NEWS ABOUT
THE MEDIUM
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* conference report
* "best of" Netweaver
* Netweaver on disk
* explore porting of Netweaver via Dasnet

- Stan Pokras

PROVISIONAL ACADEMIC WING
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Form a group focused on educational applications of electronic
networks.

- Dwight Stewart

HYPERMEDIA SIG FORMED
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Explore relationship of electronic networking to advances in
hypermedia.

- George Por

* * *
ENA is full of energy coming out of the May conference. Now is a

great time for you to get involved.