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Please join us at our next Steering Committee meeting preceding the SF 
Bay Delta Metadata Index project workshop.  Hope to see you there.

P.S.  At the bottom of this message is a list of Water On-Lines 
accomplishments since the beginning of the year.

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Kevin Wolf
Project Director
kjwolf@wheel.dcn.davis.ca.us

Upcoming Water On-Line Steering Committee meeting
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Open to the public.  All welcome.
May 15, 1995  7:30-9 am (NOTE:  earlier starting time)
Preceding the SF Bay Delta Metadata Index Workshop
Clarion Hotel, 600 14th  St, Sacramento
Rolls, coffee, fruit and juice available

Water On-Line has an open steering committee process to develop 
policy and strategy.  Participants at the May 15 meeting will 
help in the following:

MEETING OBJECTIVES

1.  Decide what subjects should be explored and presented at 
upcoming workshops.

2.  Review the expansion of the Internet training program.  
Should Water On-Line collaborate with California Special 
Districts Association and Association of Bay Area Governments in 
providing training?  Should we pursue alliances with other 
associations?

3.  Determine if Water On-Line should pursue foundation/agency 
funding for the Metadata Index Project with the San Francisco 
Estuary Institute?  Are there other projects we should pursue 
for funding?

4.  Review the sponsorship process for Water On-Line.  What can 
be done to help expand the number of organizations which sponsor 
the project?  

5.  Establish 1995 project goals and objectives. 

6.  Set the next meeting, date, time and place.

Agenda:
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7:15	Coffee and pre-meeting conversation
7:30	Welcome, introductions
7:35	Agenda review and groundrules
7:40	Next three Water On-Line workshops
		5 min		Brainstorm future workshops subjects
		10 min	Debate, discuss, clarify
		10 min	Decide.  Who should present? Volunteers 	
				for workshop chairs?
8:05	Training program.  Should we collaborate with other 	
	associations?
8:15	Grants/foundation support.  Proposal:  Water On-Line 
	should collaborate with San Francisco Estuary Institute to 
	seek grant funding for the SF Bay Delta Metadata Index 
	Project?
8:25	Sponsorship review and planning:  
		Where are we now?
		How to bring in more sponsors
8:40	Review proposed goals and objectives.  Discuss. Decide.
8:55	Set next meeting
9 am	Adjourn


Water On-Line Accomplishments January - May, 1995
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Goal:  Increase the California water community's knowledge and 
understanding of the Internet.

1.  Mailed material (brochures, letters, workshop announcements) 
to 4000 individuals and groups.   
2.  Write a monthly column on the Internet for US Water News.
3.  Sent hundreds of press releases and received dozens of 
mentions and write-ups in association and departmental 
newsletters.
4.  Gave presentations and spoke to the following groups: SFPUC, 
MISAC, RWQCB managers, ABAG, ACWA, CSDA, MWD, Groundwater 
Assembly 95, SBMVWD, DWR GIS managers, the IEP annual 
conference.

Goal:  Train California's water community in how to use the 
Internet.

1.   Trained over 100 people in Introduction to the Internet
2.   Trained 25 people in "Design and Create WorldWideWeb" 
homepages.

Goal:  Help water organizations get on line and put quality 
information on-line.

1.  Helped find student  interns for the City of Davis and City 
of Woodland Public Works Departments and the US Bureau of 
Reclamation.
2.  Provided advice and information to the State Water Resources 
Control Board  and Regional Water Quality Control Boards.

Goal:  Help advance the use of the Internet to provide better 
access to information and data. 

1.  Organized the first interagency meeting in California on 
Metadata Standards and water datasets.
2.  Developed the SF Bay Delta Metadata Index project.
3.  Gave advice to and publicized the development of UC Davis' 
World Wide Water homepage which organizes all known Internet 
water related resources.
4.  Developed and placed on-line the Water On-Line homepage 
which provides an organization tool for water stakeholders to 
useful Internet tools and resources. 

Goal:  Further the understanding of how the use of the Internet 
can help agencies save money.

1.   Present a workshop on how Public Affairs agencies can use 
the Internet.  (Scheduled for May 24 in conjunction with DWR.)