ENA Update
by Lisa Kimball

I hope SOME of you have noticed that we missed a few issues of NETWEAVER. The press of Networking Forum '89 in Japan and our annual ENA f-t-f conference in May created a bit of overload.

However, this month we're *back* - with an extra "thick" issue for you.

During our f-t-f conference in Allentown, PA in May, we identified a number of key jobs we need help with in order to continue to use NETWEAVER as one of our primary means of disseminating information and ideas about what we're doing with the networking community. If you'd like to become part of the NETWEAVER "staff" - please contact us soon! Here's a partial list of our needs (and feel free to add a new idea you're willing to pursue):

1. authors - we need articles about networking applications,
theory, and related issues. We prefer articles from 5-10k.

2. editors - we need people willing to edit other people's
articles.

3. "stringers" - we need people to scout out good stuff which
appears online, get permission from the author for us to
publish it, and format it appropriately for our use.

4. porters - there are a number of networks which aren't getting
NETWEAVER because we don't have anyone porting it there. If
we're not appearing on your favorite network - be a porter!

5. usenet newsgroup/mailing list - we'd like to have NETWEAVER
available via the internet. We need someone to take on the
task of making that happen.

6. NETWEAVER on disk - we have an offer from Jim Button to
distribute NETWEAVER on disk via Buttonware. We need someone
to be the liaison and provide copies of NETWEAVER on disk.

7. ENA Journal - We'd like to begin publishing a quarterly
electronic journal which would be a better format for our
longer articles. We need a group willing to help put that
together.

8. Printed Highlights - We'd like to make excerpts or highlights
of NETWEAVER available in print so we can use it to attract
people who are not yet online.

9. Network Liaison - We would like to develop our relationship
with as many networks as possible in order to: get free or
discounted accounts for our porters, get networks to promote
NETWEAVER and ENA to their users, and get more material from
a wider range of networks. We need people willing to take
lead to initiate conversations with key folks on their
network.

If you'd like to join the NETWEAVER team to work on any of these tasks - or on your additional ideas - please contact me through your porter or at (703) 243-6622. E-mail: lisa@tmn.uu.net