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                                Scouting Digest

                               Volume I, Issue 2
                             20th of October, 1995

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                                   Editorial


   Scouting  Digest  #1.1 just went out week ago on Friday the Thirteenth and
   luckily didn't crash any machines on the way.  Scouting  Digest  also  has
   found  home  at  http://www.livjm.ac.uk/scoutnet/digest/welcome.htm,  much
   thanks to Simon Pearce, administrator of ScoutNet UK (of which more  later
   in this issue). Simon has also done the work of converting all the URLs to
   actual links making Scouting Digest on the Web lot more useful resource.

   In this issue:
    - What's New (or otherwise interesting) on the Web?
    - Jamboree on the Internet (JOTNet)

   That's it. Enjoy!

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                             What's New on the Web?


   Global ScoutNet Pages have moved!
   http://scoutnet.ch/
   The Global ScoutNet Organization is switching  servers  in  the  following
   weeks.  I suggest updating your bookmarks from http://www.chnet.ch/~scout/
   to http://scoutnet.ch/. As of 17th of October the new server seems  to  be
   working  okay.  Anyway,  Global ScoutNet is worth checking out. I - having
   edited my own pages for the 1995 World Jamboree - liked the Virtual  World
   Jamboree -pages for the 1995 (the Netherlands) and 1999 (Chile) Jamborees.

   ScoutNet UK
   http://www.livjm.ac.uk/scoutnet/
   ScoutNet UK, the largest online collection of Scouting material in the UK,
   has  opened  it's  doors  to  the world. Especially good place to look for
   scouting related documents and programs.  The  Scouting  Software  archive
   contains 14 programs with good descriptions. Also includes Talking Points:
   a digest of topical items for general information throughout the Movement.

   The Scout Patch Auction
   http://www.tspa.com/
   If  you are into scouting collectibles, badges and the like, this is defi-
   nitely your site. Via The Scout Patch  Auction  (SPA)  you  can  get  over
   12,000 different scouting items. For those less serious collectors who on-
   ly wish to swap badges etc. there are 'Wanted to buy' and 'Classifies Ads'
   -sections  which unfortunately appear to be still under construction. Also
   includes Collector's Forum - articles and news for collectors.

   Jim Speir's Scouting Page
   http://www.dfc.com/~dfc/scouts/speirs.htm
   Quite amazing indeed! Jim's page is of the rare sort  where  you  actually
   find  articles from The Leader Magazine (previously posted on rec.scouting
   or can.scouts-guide). Recommended.

   1st Farnsfield Scout Group, Nottinghamshire
   http://metro.turnpike.net/C/chris/index.htm
   Some information about groups in Nottinghamshire as well as some pointers.
   Also  hosts  rich  pages  about Scouting in Russia and Uganda. I found the
   history of Russian scouting  extremely  interesting  because  before  1917
   scouting  was forbidden here in Finland by the Russian government. Anyway,
   this site carries definitely new information about two 'exotic'  countries
   of the Scouting Movement.

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                       Jamboree on the Internet (JOTNet)


   Jamboree  on the Internet (JOTNet) will be held from 21st till 22nd of Oc-
   tober (ie. next weekend) concurrently with the Jamboree on the Air (JOTA).

   On  Internet  Relay  Chat  (IRC) there will be action on two channels: the
   regular #scouting and also on #jota. You can catch some  scouts  from  the
   Netherlands  on  Saturday  at  13:00 and 17:00, and on Sunday at 11:00 and
   17:00   (all   times   in   CET).   Check   their   JOTA    homepage    at
   http://huizen.dds.nl/~jota1995/.

   Suggested IRC times by Simon Pearce (simon@scoutnet.demon.co.uk):

     Saturday 21st of October    Sunday 22nd of October

      1200 GMT                     1000 GMT
      1600 GMT                     1600 GMT

   There  are also several groups you can contact (just for fun ;=) via email
   during JOTNet:

     Calgary 85th Lakeview Troop, Canada
     16 Scouts (ages 11-13) and 5 Leaders
     mnichols@freenet.calgary.ab.ca

     Kenton & Kingsbury District, London, England
     bobc@woodhill.demon.co.uk

     5th Richmond Hill, Canada
     oweno@idirect.com

     Troop 7
     12:00 - 16:00 UCT on Saturday 21st
     rob@sanctum.com

     Soborne District, Australia
     scouts@lacebark.ntu.edu.au

     Group from the Netherlands
     r.megens@inter.nl.net

     1st Nanaimo, Canada
     Several Scout troops camping together for the weekend.
     joti@nanaimo.island.net

   Additionally you can reach World Scout Bureau in Geneva, Switzerland  with
   worldjota@scout.gn.apc.org.

   On  the  Scouting Forum at Compuserve there is to be some happening, but I
   unfortunately don't know what.

   You can also find links to  JOTNet  related  sites  at  the  InterNETional
   Scouting Pages (http://scoutwww.strw.leidenuniv.nl/scout/jotnet.html).

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                            What is Scouting Digest?


   Scouting  Digest  is  a  weekly  (whenever possibly) published ezine about
   Scouting on the Internet and other computer networks. Mostly it's intended
   to gather into one place all the announcements for new sites and resources
   on various newsgroups and mailing lists.

   Scouting Digest may later come to include also longer  articles,  but  for
   now it's only to provide pointers for interesting sites.

   Please,  feel  free  to  send comments & critique about Scouting Digest to
   Tuomas Toivonen, <sdigest-editor@www.partio.fi>. Announcements  and  arti-
   cles are also welcome and likely to be published.

   Scouting  Digest can be found at (I recommend the Scoutnet UK site because
   it carries 'htmlized' version of the zine):

     http://www.livjm.ac.uk/scoutnet/digest/welcome.htm
     http://www.partio.fi/ScoutingDigest/
     ftp://www.partio.fi/pub/ScoutingDigest/
     rec.scouting, uk.rec.scouting, can.scout-guide

   Alternatively, you can get Scouting Digest delivered right into your mail-
   box.   Send  a subscribe request to <majordomo@www.partio.fi>. In the body
   of the message write: subscribe sdigest your-email-address.

   Majordomo will also be more than glad to send you back issues. Send:
     get sdigest sdigest1-X.txt
   where you replace X with the issue number.

   If you  have  any  unanswered  questions,  feel  free  to  mail  <sdigest-
   editor@www.partio.fi>.

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                      Scouting Digest is made possible by
                        The Guides and Scouts of Finland
                             http://www.partio.fi/

                  My preferred Scouting resources on the Web:
                   http://scoutwww.strw.leidenuniv.nl/scout/
                              http://scoutnet.ch/
                       http://www.scouting.org/scouting/

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Tuomas.Toivonen@Helsinki.Fi, http://www.partio.fi/~toivotuo/
University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Science