Francophone Committee Report

1.  Outreach (avancement) aspect of the committee is a continuing promotion
        for francophones in our community to use freenet, to volunteer as
        information providers and translaters, and to establish lines of
        communication through freenet (libertel).
 
        To this end, a booth for freenet-libertel will be on the grounds
        at the June 20-24 Franco-Ontarien festival at Confederation Park
        on Elgin Street, manned by members of the French committee.
 
2.  Chairman Fortin, who is a webmaster for the Department of Industry,
        will be teaching courses in HTML in French for groups wishing to
	set up web pages on freenet.
 
3.  Grants available through the Federal Government will be made available
        to remote communities needing help to get their members onto the
        Internet. Cantley, Quebec, wll be a pilot project for this program.
 
4.  Work is being done to acquaint members of the CGI (common gateway
        interface) which is a web technology which will allow the
        processing of web forms.

5.  A member of the committee will be working with Ian to expedite the
        completion of the French language menu, particularly with relation to
        the adapting of current programs.
 
6.  An attempt is being made to discover how new items get added to the
        menu so that in future this will be done in both languages
        simultaneously. Particular attention is to be paid to the newly
        instituted community calendar for fundraising events - now only
        available in one language.
 
7.  The committee is still trying to find a way to implement enrolment for
        francophones, in French. They propose a web facility for this purpose.


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Rosaleen Dickson