From dloan@magi.com Tue Dec 19 09:24:40 1995 Received: from mail.fonorola.net (mail.fonorola.net [198.53.64.8]) by freenet.carleton.ca (8.6.12/8.6.4) with SMTP id JAA17973 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 09:24:39 -0500 Received: from infoweb.magi.com by mail.fonorola.net with SMTP (5.65/25-eef) id AA15119; Tue, 19 Dec 95 09:14:47 -0500 Received: from magi02p30.magi.com by magi.com (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA11873; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 09:24:33 -0500 Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 09:24:33 -0500 Message-Id: <9512191424.AA11873@magi.com> X-Sender: dloan@magi.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: board@freenet.carleton.ca From: dloan@magi.com (Dave Loan) Subject: Strategic Direction I am unable to attend tonight's meeting - I'm flying to B.C. tomorrow and have a great deal to prepare. Briefly, I wish to lend my support to the Strategic Plan. I also strongly agree with Andrew's concerns about working with those sectors of the community who are currently not accessing the Internet, but I do not see these as mutually exclusive. I believe that in moving to a graphical interface we will make the system more accessible to those who find the current text system (with its various keyboard commands) too intimidating. I have taught a great many people how to use FreeNet - I feel that a graphical interface will be friendlier. I also feel that we should be focusing more of our resources towards community outreach - this is a priority. I will not respond to the various technical issues of providing this access; frankly the discussion is over my head and should be resolved outside the Board meeting. Best of the season to you all. --Dave