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                     NEWS FROM NATIONAL
                        MAY 6, 1996
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             INFORMATICS '96: Per Session Fees

Reminder that the CIPS annual conference is coming up very quickly. This
year's Informatics is being held in Vancouver, May 13-17.

Of interest to people with limited time but with lots of interest in
attending a few conference sessions - there are per session rates available.

* half day workshop sessions            $ 150.00
* each conference session               $  50.00
* each keynote speaker luncheon         $  85.00

For more information or for a conference registration form, contact
Melissa Bomben at CIPS Vancouver, email - cips@unixg.ubc.ca, phone -
(604) 681-2796, fax - (604) 689-1879. Register soon - only 7 days till
conference time!

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                NATIONAL MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN

The CIPS National Membership Campaign wrapped up on April 30, 1996.

Prize winners will be announced shortly. The new member draw for the
AST laptop computer will be held in Vancouver during Informatics '96.

Thanks to all members who made the extra effort to educate their friends,
co-wokers and the person beside you on the bus, about CIPS!

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                 COMMON BODY OF KNOWLEDGE

Copies of the CBOK are now available. If you would like to purchase a
copy of the "European Informatics Skills Structure", which is distributed in
Canada exclusively by CIPS, please contact the CIPS National Office, by
phone (416) 593-4040 or via email, info@cips.ca. The price of the CBOK
for CIPS members is $250; $400 for non-members. Prepayment is required
and can be made by cheque, AMEX, or VISA.

The EISS, produced by CEPIS (the Council of European Professional
Informatics Societies), is a set of performance standards covering all
functional areas of work carried out by professionals within information
processing.

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                         UBC SURVEY

The Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration at the University of
British Columbia is presently conducting a survey on post-failure
management. The study aims to identify effective practices that can be used
by MIS professionals when dealing with unsuccessful projects. The MIS
Researcher for the study has approached CIPS to request the participation
of 100 member consultants and 100 member CIOs.

Results of the study will be made available to CIPS members.

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                         ICCP OFFER

The Institute for Certification of Computing Professionals is offering a
special examination package until May 31, 1996. This may be of interest to
CIPS members who wish to apply for their I.S.P. under Category D which
specifies that applicants have completed their ICCP Examination and also
have 5 years of professional level experience.

If you apply to write your ICCP exams by May 31 you will receive the
following:

* a copy of the Official Review Outline for the low price of $49US
(regular price is $63.50) and ICCP will pay the shipping and handling costs
* easy telephone registration on their 800 hotline (1-800-U-GET-CCP)
* instant pre-approval of your application
* Computer-Based Testing - you select the time and place

In order to take advantage of this offer from ICCP, call 1-800-U-GET-
CCP and speak to Lydia.

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              UPCOMING EVENTS: OUTSIDE OF CIPS

EVENT: E-DOC 96

WHAT: Electronic Document Management Systems, Imaging and
Workflow Conference

WHEN and WHERE:
Montreal,  May 29-30, 1996
Toronto, June 4-5, 1996
Vancouver, June 11-12, 1996
Edmonton, June 13-14, 1996
Ottawa, June 18-19, 1996

CONTACT:  phone 1-800-397-9744

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EVENT:  The 15th Conference on Advanced Strategies for Electronic
Commerce: EDI, Fax, Email, and  the Internet

THEME: Innovations in Electronic Commerce: the New CyberOffice

WHERE: Toronto Hilton Hotel

WHEN: June 23-26, 1996

CONTACT: The EDI Group Canada, phone 1-800-334-2434, email,
t.edigroup@resonet.com
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               CIPS INTERNET COMMITTEE REPORT

Hi folks, Steve here, back in the saddle again....I feel a
song coming on....so crank up those Mark I Eyeballs,
tell the significant other you're busy and get ready for
this month's CIPSnet news!

In this issue....

*We've entered stage 2 of online directory testing
*Arrrggghhh, bujits (but it's looking good)
*MikeMac starts a fun thread, your comments will make a difference
*Steve meets Tim Berners-Lee and gets 3 no-pay-days

....onto the details we go...

Online Directory Stage 2
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We've completed the build and alpha-test on a password-protected,
controllable return-limit, search-by-specific-field-or-fields
online directory. Not to toot my company's horn too loudly but use the
software is being donated to CIPS by them. We spent a fair
chunk of cash to have our design coded by a real c-weenie.

We hope to install the nat.board.test.version this weekend. Next step
will be to have the nat.board.gods test it out and provide erudite
commentary, especially you, Paul Rodier. It should address some of Paul's
concerns surrounding the current version (which is only accessible to board
members and section executives due to it's flakiness and lack of
access-control). Hopefully we'll be able to get some blessings for the new
one from on high at the mid-May nat-board.be.in. We would then be
looking to roll it out to the great unwashed masses (ie. everyone else). One
limiting factor to roll-out might be the lack of server horsepower but I'm
hoping to work around that, temporarily.

Arrrggghhh, bujits
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Well we've finally locked down the budget stuff we're going to
put forward to the board. The request is for the money to
support the purchase of a Windows-NT / Beige-Pentium /
Net-Software / ISDN-Routed-Connection setup to support a host
of new services we're hoping to roll out.

Basically it asks for a one-time cash outlay of about the same
amount as we are spending on sending Pat Glenn to the IFIP meeting
in South Africa this June ($10k for us, $9K for Pat). Generally,
these are both one-time expenses. It's actually a little more complicated
than that, but hey, I'm a propeller-head not a spreadsheet-tweaker. Thanks
muchly to Vi Sadler and Mary Jean Kucerak for helping put the
committee's thoughts into a pretty sexy structure.

We're hoping to hear your comments as part of the process. The budget
and associated 'business plan' will be accessible via
http://www.cips.ca/budget.htm

Please feel free to take a look at it. We are setting up a neat
new mechanism for you to send us your opinions on it, too.

We will have a dynamic 'Budget Commentary Page' up for you to
put your comments onto. For those of you who've not seen one of these
before, essentially, it accumulates comments from users to create
a web-page that allows you to see all previous commentary as well
what you just added.

The Commentary Page probably won't be available 'til late this week
but it will be cross-linked directly to the budget documents when it's
ready. This is another in a series of services we're rolling out. The idea
is that on any given topic you'll be able to see all preceding commentary on
a single web page that grows as we all feed it. That will make it a
ready-made summarization for ourselves, media-types, etc.

MikeMac starts a fun thread
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As part of our budget process, Mike MacDonald (mikemac to all you
netheads) came up with the great idea of asking you for input on what
services members  would like to see on CIPSnet.

Wow, did you ever respond! We collected a raft of opinion generally
centered around just where we're thinking of going (eg. move
communications onto electronic media, mail-forwarding, web-pages, etc.).
Mark Olson (a distant relative of Jimmy Olson, I believe) put a lot of good
thoughts together on this issue. Thanks Mark for the input.

We will be collecting all of it and bringing it to the May nat.board thing
to show the world. Keep those cards and letters coming in folks, all ideas
are appreciated.

We'll probably discuss the ideas at the Internet Committee Meeting being
held at 8am on Monday 13May (yawn, that's too early for net-geeks, but
the only time-slot that was available). All are welcome to come and throw
in their two cents, dos centimes, etc. Michele's even put together an
official agenda for us (arrrrggghhh, organization). Hey Tom Ruta, are you
in Vancouver that week? We need a IMH(hah) Opinion <g>.

Steve meets Tim Berners-Lee
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Kerry Augustine graciously allowed me to redirect $250 unused from this
year's net-budget (we are frugal dontchya know) to attend a Colloquium
on the Internet hosted by The University of Toronto. This was a
non-commercial event (no buy-my-stuff speeches) dedicated to exploring
where the net was going in the next 3-5 years.

As we were able to book early, the total price was very low. My reasoning
for attending was to get the message out that CIPS was doing some
significant stuff. In addition, I wanted to hear what the 'experts' were
saying and doing. You know me, shy, reserved, never interested in talking
to people about the net.....ya right.

Anyway, Tim Berners-Lee was there (inventor of the World Wide Web),
some of theJava developers, the InContext document search-engine people,
Shumei Kumon (advisor to the US on the National Internet Infrastructure
stuff), and a ton of other luminaries and luminarettes (over 30 in all).
After Tim's speech, I had the opportunity to spend about an hour with him in
a casual setting (along with Zelco Odorcic, a local Toronto CIPS member,
who happened to also have signed up for the event). When I told Mr. Tim
all the stuff we were doing, his eyes lit up and he seemed genuinely happy.
Apparently, most businesses and associations are using the net more as a
'marketing vehicle'. Tim Berners-Lee had always intended the web to be a
'communications medium'. We yakked about where the net was going,
the problems of us getting a large percentage of members online and where
the best pub was during his Cern sojourn. Eventually Tim had to leave but
not before giving us a big 'attaboy'....and no, I didn't get his autograph.

I promised Kerry a full report as my part of the deal. I'll put it onto the
CIPSweb for one and all to see as soon as I get it done. I'm keeping
scratchy notes so watch for the announcement on it's availability next
week-ish.

So far, we've had one major confrontation at the event around the
unbalanced male/not-male ratio on the net. There was yelling and shouting
on the floor about whether discussion on this issue even belonged at the
colloquium. It's an area we're going to have to talk about on CIPS-L once
I've put the details sur la web.

Seeya,
Steve Gallinger, ISP
CIPSnet guy who shares a chair with Michele Sura

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              SEE EVERYONE AT INFORMATICS '96!!

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