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An organizational meeting will be held August 25 at 5:30 p.m. in the
Seminar Room of The William & Ida Friday Continuing Education Center in
Chapel Hill to discuss the possibility of developing a "Free-Net" for the
Research Triangle area.

The Friday Center is located approximately three miles east of the
UNC-Chapel Hill campus on Laurel Hill Parkway, just off Highway 54 East
(Raleigh Road). If you are coming in from Interstate 40 on 54, it is on
the left, past the Mobile Mart and before Slug's restaurant. There are
lots of signs. Go in the front door, down the second hall on the right to
the end of the hall. We are meeting in the Seminar Room.

Agenda:

Show video describing the Heartland (Peoria) Free-Net (15 minutes)
Agenda changes (5 minutes)
Introductions: who we are and why we are here (10 minutes)
Work done so far:
     How the Free-Net idea got started in RTP -- Bill Hutchins (5 minutes)
     Incorporated, tax exempt, cost estimates, related projects -- 
        Judy Hallman (10 minutes)
Determine committees needed, volunteers for each, and time and location
for first meeting for each (30 minutes)
   Possible committees:
     Hardware/software
     System design/user interface -- includes planning the database and
        finding the "sysops"
     Staff/facilities
     Funding
     Publicity/administration/training
General discussion and plans for next meeting (15 minutes)
Repeat video for late arrivals (15 minutes)
Adjourn before 7:30.

Judy Hallman (Judy_Hallman@unc.edu)
UNC Office of Information Technology
311 Wilson Library, CB# 3460
Chapel Hill, NC  27599-3460
(919) 962-9107  FAX (919) 962-5604
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