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                     NEWS FROM NATIONAL
                       April 1, 1996

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        PLAN TO BE IN VANCOUVER ON THURSDAY MAY 16!

The CIPS Annual General Meeting will be held on Thursday May 16 at
7:15am in the Waterfront Centre Hotel in Vancouver during Informatics
'96. In order to reward all dedicated early morning CIPS risers, all AGM
attendees will be provided with a free beverage ticket for use at the
Informatics '96 Gala Social Event that evening.

Later that day the 1996 CIPS Achievement Awards will be handed out
during the CIPS National Awards Luncheon.

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                      HAVE YOU HEARD?

* CIPS President Kevin Brown, I.S.P. has negotiated an affiliate agreement
with Data Processing Institute President Lynn Ogilvie. Under the terms of
the agreement, members of DPI can apply for and hold their I.S.P.
provided that they become Associate Members of CIPS. Associate
members do not have the right to vote, hold elective office or receive the
benefits of a Regular Member. DPI is an association of I.T. professionals
employed by the Canadian Federal Government.

* CIPS Fredericton now has a website located at www.DISCribe.ca/cips. It
should be noted that CIPS Fredericton has attempted to provide a site that
is easily accessible to text-only browsers in order to meet information
inquiries from the Fredericton Area Network.

* the CIPS National website now includes a Professor Calvin C. Gotlieb
homepage in recognition of the numerous contributions Professor Gotlieb
has made to CIPS, to other professional associations and to the computer
science academic world.

* Reminder that the deadline for CIPA nominations is April 5.

* Gartner Group has been provided with access to the CIPS membership
list in order to mail out notice of their May and June events to the Society.
CIPS members will be provided with a discount on the registration fee for
these events. In exchange for access to our list, the Gartner Group has
provided CIPS with a one time use of their Canadian client listing for an
upcoming CIPS National Marketing Committee Project.

* Beijing, China had been chosen as the site of IFIP Congress 2000. IFIP
Congress '96 will be held September 2-6 in Canberra, Australia.

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                    CIPS NEW MEMBER DRAW

Announcing!!
All new members who have joined CIPS between February 1 - April 30 are
eligible to be entered into the CIPS National Membership Campaign New
Member Draw.

The Prize!!
Win the use of  an AST Laptop Computer for three years in a zero-dollar
lease, complete with annual software upgrades, an annual hardware
turnover and an option to buy.

Regular CIPS Members - you can benefit too!
Regular Members - get mentioned on a new member's CIPS application
form as their referral person. The CIPS National Membership Campaign
will be awarding prizes to the Regular members recruiting the most new
members during the Campaign.

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              COMMPUTERSEUM OPENS THIS SUMMER

In the November 1, 1995 issue of "News From National" we reported on
the development of Canada's first commercial computing museum. "News
From National" now has an update on the successful progress made by the
COMMPUTERSEUM organizers.

COMMPUTERSEUM is dedicated to preserving the history of data
processing and office automation. It is Canada's first computer museum
and the first computer museum in the world dedicated to the history of
commercial computing.

Exhibits will be open for public viewing from:
July 7 until August 2 -
10am - 6pm  Monday to Saturday
1pm - 5pm Sunday

The exhibit hall is located at University Heights High School in Waterloo,
Ontario.

The theme for the first year of operation is mainframes and the slogan for
1996 is "A remarkably small museum for remarkably large computers!"

The COMMPUTERSEUM website is located at
www.sentex.net/~ccmuseum

Volunteer Opportunities: CIPS members are invited to play a part in this
historic undertaking. If you would like to help open Canada's first
computer museum, please contact Kevin Stumpf, tel (519) 744-2900, email
ccm@sentex.net.

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                      UPCOMING EVENTS

EVENT: COMDEX Canada '96

SIZE: three shows in one - COMDEX, Windows World and LanExpo

WHERE: Metro Toronto Convention Centre and Skydome, Toronto

WHEN: July 10-12, 1996

CIPS MEMBER ENTRANCE:  Under the terms of a CIPS agreement
with UniForum, all CIPS members will be provided with FREE ACCESS to the
exhibit floors and special features of all three shows. CIPS members who
have subscribed to UniForum Monthly will also receive an additional
$50.00 savings off the full conference registration fee.

CONTACT: for more information on COMDEX '96 visit their website at
www.comdex.com or call the conference hotline at (617) 433-1650

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EVENT: "More than a Firewall: Protecting Yourself Against Economic
Espionage" featuring the Canadian Security Intelligence Service

ORGANIZED BY: Toronto Technology Network

WHEN: Wednesday April 10, 12:15-1:00pm

WHERE: Sheraton Centre, Toronto

CONTACT: Karen Wensley, fax (416) 864-1174

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               CIPS INTERNET COMMITTEE REPORT

Howdy from net-central with this month's report. If you haven't yet
guessed, it's moi here, Steve Gallinger, with the latest and greatest for
fellow net-nauts. So onto my magna opus.

First, the highlights:
*We got the Mail Server working
*We've done online directory testing
*CIPS-L had a major kerfuffle over Jobs
*CIPS Toronto SIGs are charging onto the net
*Anne McKague makes it onto the CBC (quelle surprise)
*Bujits, bujits, and more bujits

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

Mail Server Awakes
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When I left you last month, I was off to apply the patch to see if
we couldn't get our own mail-server working. Dang blast if it
didn't work! So what sez you....well it means we can role out
a variety of mail services like mail-forwarding and mailing-lists for
one and all. But hold-up sez the powers-that-be (and we agree)
we have to be sure what we can offer. Also, little Stevie et al
are busy on the pre-bujit-jump-off. This means that those mail-features
have to be writ down, beamed up on high, chewed and reviewed for
a while before we can do "the happy dance of implementation".
Watch this space for further developments. Expect commentary on
the roll-out plans around June (we do have a board mtg to attend to
in the meantime).

We've done online directory testing
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Yup, along with the Mail Server we were able to do a first test of our
online directory system. Jump to the access form, key in a last name,
push the submit button, and bingo bango bongo.....a CIPS page with
the hits along with the associated email address. A quick new way
to find each other. For now we only post name and email id and the
service is restricted to a select few for testing. A donation of $25,000
or more to the CIPSnet Internet Committee Support Fund gets you a
guaranteed spot as an official tester <g>

Our driver software is a little unrobust right now, but we achieved
surprising performance out of our CGI server (responded in less than 2
seconds for searches on 6000+ members). The 'clickable email'  is
especially handy, I can tell you. We don't have the 'electronic gate' up yet
to ensure that only members have access and only to specified features (ie.
membership directors get extra info). So for the time being we've decided
to hold off roll-out at least til that's available. Also, the cheeses need to
do their cheese thing with it and they are a committee <g>. Hold not thine
breath.

CIPS-L had a major kerfuffle over Job Postings
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Ya, one of our members was trying out this neat new email facility
and decided to post 10 or so call-for-rent-a-guy emails from his
firm to CIPS-L. Wow! Me and about 10 bazillion other CIPSers
and CIPSettes jumped all over him faster than lickety split.
He told us he got 50+ negative emails in about a day. We ended
up getting a very sincere apology from the member (albeit with a little
trailer advert for his firm, grumble, grumble).

Afterwords, there was much discussion on CIPS-L regarding whether
or not we should give the member some slack. Generally, it was agreed
that the apology went a long way to soothing fevered brow's.

During all of this, the CIPSnet Committee, our might team of
near-naked-net-nauts, was already working on some 'job and resume
posting policies'. Boy, talk about your management  weenie stuff! Anyway,
version 0.1 is in review right now. To check the status of our 'policy
statement' email Michele Sura at michele@cips.ca. The work on the
guidelines should be published by June 96.

CIPS Toronto SIGs are charging onto the net
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Bad Bill Pearson, Toronto's SIG Co-Ordinator and the SIG chairs have laid
out a set of ideas to promote SIGs in Toronto. They're considering some
radical ideas like Weekend SIG Symposiums and lunchtime SIG's, too.
Anyway, they made it into my article because they are looking to use the
nat.net.capabilities to promote their stuff. They are looking at pre-event
q&a's via interactive forms, offering links to speaker home pages, post-SIG
write-ups (they'd be avail to all CIPSeenies and IT groupies directly via the
web), and email/efax pre-event reminders. CIPS Toronto already has an
active SIG program, this should take it "To the moon, Alice!" (a geezer
quote)

Anne McKague makes it onto the CBC
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Quelle surprise, eh? Seems our mighty convergence theorist was invited to
speak on a documentary called "WebHeads" which aired on CBC Saturday,
16March, (the "Rough Cuts" series). The program was a light-hearted look
at the social impacts of the new technology. Lots of good stuff and yet it
showed  the reality of "hurry up and wait", "oh, darn, dropped that ***
connection again", "what happened to my DNS?", "huh, that's
teleconferencing, mighty slow and jerky" and all the other warts of the net.
The best bit was watching Anne wax eloquently on the impact of the net
while they superimposed a "Lycos" search for her  name in the background.
Guess how many entries turned up? I leave it to the reader to deduce the
significance of this.

Bujits, bujits, and more bujits
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Right then, I'm in the middle of config'ing a mail server, working on
an online directory, building my own net-business, doing my
Toronto Board event-visitations, and down comes the call.....

...it's budget time....ally, ally, gitchyur bujits in...

Aaaaaccchhhh! Oh well, right then, stay up late, draft a killer version
0.1, beam it to the checker of all things good and await the kudos.

NNNNooooootttttttt!

Nope, tweak this, twiddle that, make it purty, etc. Well we're tweaking
and we're twiddling as we speak. The CIPSnet Committee is using the
Web to distribute the drafts. No more worrying about what
word-processing software each of us has! If you have any ideas on CIPSnet
that you'd like heard, post them to CIPS-L. We all monitor it regularly. If
enough people salute the idea, we'll throw it in the pot. Don't forget
though, beam-budget-to-cheese day for us is 03April, so get your ideas in
early.

Once it's blessed by Kerry Augustine (our guiding light on the
nat.board.exec), we'll post it on the web for dart-practice. Hopefully we
can do this around the first of May just in time for Congress and the
nat.board.be-in May 13-17, 1996. It even gives me something to write
about next month.

Seeya, Steve Gallinger, ISP
CIPSnet GHPB

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                       HAPPY SPRING!!
            FROM THE CIPS NATIONAL OFFICE STAFF
                        info@cips.ca
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