SCN: SCNA general meeting 6/9.

[Victor Eskenazi]

i got my first email account thru scn - way back when - and for a while
attended some meetings.

a number of years ago, with a gmail account, i had any scn email forwarded
- and on rare occasions may get something.

other than as a web site providing non-commercial space for non-profits,
really, what purpose does scn serve anymore?

i pity anyone dependent on dial-up internet "service".  depending on
location, even watching low-cost dsl downloading is like watching paint dry
- in the rain...   :-)

DOES anyone use dial-up, scn webmail or pine for email???

just wondering . . . maybe scn can do whatever needs to do on commercial
servers with purchase of a web site???

v

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Randy Groves <randy at scn.org> wrote:

> The idea certainly has potential.  A topic that came up several times at
> the meeting and does need to be addressed at some point is that we are
> hugely at the mercy of SPL and their network connection.  I was not privy
> to any discussions specifically on this issue, but in the past there have
> been (via hearsay) statements by the library to the effect that if we start
> becoming a drain on the resources, we may be asked to leave.  So that has
> to be kept in the back of our minds as we contemplate additional services.
> In a way, it would be a positive, though - to become popular enough again
> that we pose a dilemma for the library ...
>
> -randy
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 2:30 PM, <sc at sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
>
>>  We decided on setting up a mailing list (I know, another one)
>>>
>>
>> Randy,
>>
>> If you can find someone with current access to the SCN system
>> who wants to do it, please transfer the ownership of the old scn
>> list to whoever that is. It would cut down on my spam-bounce
>> messages. Thanks.
>>
>> Almost the only volunteer Internet thing I'm doing these days is
>> helping with Marty McLaren's Web site (marty4ssd.com). It'd be
>> nice to have a place to stream video of public meetings and
>> such, and not be limited to 32kbps or 48kbps .mp3 audio files.
>> I've tried Youtube and it works, but it'd be nice to have a
>> better alternative.
>>
>> The Seattle Channel's School Board videos are 256kbps for the
>> audio and video combined. That's about the same bandwidth as
>> some MP3 Internet radio streams. Low-end video is starting to be
>> less far-fetched than it used to be. Even bumping the bitrate to
>> twice that might be less laughable than you think. What would be
>> particularly fun is eventually developing the capability to
>> stream video live from field locations via Wifi or cell phone
>> data links. People are out there doing stuff. It's not all text.
>> Would SCN potentially be interested in anything like this?
>>
>> Rod Clark
>> sc at sdf.org
>>
>>
>
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