PIONEER AWARDS Call for Nominations

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EFFector Online           October 22, 1992                Issue  3.07

           A Publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation

                            ISSN 1062-9424

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         THE SECOND ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL EFF PIONEER AWARDS:

                       CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

                     Deadline: December 31,1992

knowledge,freedom,efficiency and utility. Along the electronic frontier,

this is especially true. To recognize this,the Electronic Frontier

Foundation has established the Pioneer Awards for deserving individuals

and organizations.

The Pioneer Awards are international and nominations are open to all.

D.C. The winners were: Douglas C. Engelbart of Fremont, California;

Robert Kahn of Reston, Virginia; Jim Warren of Woodside, California; Tom

Jennings of San Francisco, California; and Andrzej Smereczynski of

Warsaw, Poland.

The Second Annual Pioneer Awards will be given in San Francisco,

California at the 3rd Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy

n March of 1993.

All valid nominations will be reviewed by a panel of impartial judges

chosen for their knowledge of computer-based communications and the

technical, legal, and social issues involved in networking.

There are no specific categories for the Pioneer Awards, but the

following guidelines apply:

   1) The nominees must have made a substantial contribution to the

      health, growth, accessibility, or freedom of computer-based

      communications.

   2) The contribution may be technical, social, economic or cultural.

   3) Nominations may be of individuals, systems, or organizations in

      the private or public sectors.

   4) Nominations are open to all, and you may nominate more than one

      recipient. You may nominate yourself or your organization.

   5) All nominations, to be valid, must contain your reasons, however

      brief, on why you are nominating the individual or organization,

      along with a means of contacting the nominee, and your own contact

      number. No anonymous nominations will be allowed.

   6) Every person or organization, with the single exception of EFF

      staff members, are eligible for Pioneer Awards.

   7) Persons or representatives of organizations receiving a Pioneer

      Award will be invited to attend the ceremony at the Foundation's

      expense.

You may nominate as many as you wish, but please use one form per

nomination. You may return the forms to us via email to

             pioneer@eff.org

You may mail them to us at:

             Pioneer Awards, EFF,

             155 Second Street

             Cambridge MA 02141.

You may FAX them to us at:

             +1 617 864 0866

Just tell us the name of the nominee, the phone number or email address

at which the nominee can be reached, and, most important, why you feel

the nominee deserves the award.  You may attach supporting

We're looking for the Pioneers of the Electronic Frontier that have made

and are making a difference. Thanks for helping us find them,

The Electronic Frontier Foundation

        -------EFF Pioneer Awards Nomination Form------

via email to:       pioneer@eff.org

via surface mail to EFF 155 Second Street, Cambridge, MA 02141 USA;

via FAX to +1 617 864 0866

Nominee:

Title:

Company/Organization:

Contact number or email address:

Reason for nomination:

Your name and contact information:

Extra documentation attached:

DEADLINE: ALL NOMINATIONS MUST BE RECEIVE BY THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER

FOUNDATION BY MIDNIGHT, EASTERN STANDARD TIME U.S., DECEMBER 31,1992.

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                        THE EFF/AUSTIN CHAPTER

               A Progress Report by John S. Quarterman

                      President of Autsin EFF.

As of July 1992, the official name of our group is EFF-Austin,

and we are a Texas nonprofit corporation. Our goals, adapted from

those of EFF-National, are given in our Articles of Incorporation:

      (a) to engage in and support educational activities that

      increase understanding of the opportunities and challenges posed

      by computing and telecommunications, and related civil liberties

      issues.

      (b) to foster a clearer social understanding of the issues

      underlying free and open telecommunications; and

      (c) to facilitate and encourage communication between

      individuals interested in computer and telecommunication

      technology and related social and legal issues.

Among other activities in pursuit of these goals, we hold three

Cyberdawgs.

Member meetings consist of presentations by EFF-Austin directors and

others on what EFF-Austin is doing, and questions and suggestions

from the attendees.

Our first general public meeting was held in May, at the Austin

Technology Incubator. Close to sixty people attended to listen to

meeting for November.

nformation of interest to our members and the public, and invite

Our most recent public forum was "The Net: What is It, Where is it,

Who Uses It, and for What?", presented by John Quarterman and Smoot

Carl-Mitchell of Texas Internet Consulting and Matrix Information

and Directory Services, and Anna Couey, an art networker from

San Francisco. This was held at MCC and included online demonstrations

of Internet applications such as anonymous FTP, archie, and gopher,

as well as TELNET to locations such as Moscow and the WELL.

The next scheduled Public Forum is on October 29. Noted science

fiction author Bruce Sterling will speak and sign copies concerning his

latest work, the nonfiction book, The Hacker Crackdown, just published

by Bantam. This meeting will be held at the University of Texas. We

are inviting local law enforcement officers to attend, considering

the subject matter of the book. Cliff Figallo, Director of the Cambridge

Office of the Electronic Frontier Foundation will also attend.

Ed Cavazos is currently organizing a panel discussion on Sysop Liability

that will be given in January of next year.

"Cyberdawg". These are informal networking mixers. (The name comes

from a hot dog picnic held last year at the Steve Jackson Games office

n Austin.) We have held two Cyberdawgs so far , in June and August,

at the High Times Tea Bar and Brain Gym (a local establishment

that serves intellectual games instead of alcohol), and at Europa Books.

They were well-attended by a diverse mix of the Austin electronic

community. All types of computer users met to talk, exchange

nformation, make contacts, and simply have fun. We have scheduled the

next Cyberdawg for November, and plan to have Tracy LaQuey Parker

Another method of information distribution that we have employed is

Government and Technology Convention in February of 1992, and have

the Armadillocon Science Fiction Convention 9-11 October.

Since several of our members are frequent travelers to SF conventions,

We consider this worthwhile, since science fiction readers are likely

to be interested in the way society evolves to handle evolving 

technology.

At all of these events we have been passing out EFF literature that we

There is the Info Disk, which contains text files that serve as a

September saw the first issue of our online newsletter, Word, which we

newsgroup, austin.eff, linked bidirectionally with a mailing list,

eff-austin@tic.com. That newsgroup and mailing list are about

EFF-Austin and local concerns, but they are already widely

USENET, UUCP, and the Internet.

This is all in addition to the meetings of the Board of Directors

(fifteen in the last twelve months). We currently hold these meetings

on the second Tuesday of each month.

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                        CURRENT SITE @eff.org

                       Where Users Come First.

                         by Rita Rouvalis

                         (rita@eff.org)

Carefully assemble four Sparcstation II's, nine gigs of disk storage,

a T1 and what do you get?  One hopping Internet site and the Heart and

Soul of the EFF. Traditionally, netiquette has required that most ftp

transfers be done druing non-business or off-peak hours.  The reason for

the request is that most ftp machines are also used for other tasks by

the local users.  ftp.eff.org, however, is a dedicated ftp, gopher, and

WAIS machine.  This means that it is not at the staff's disposal, but

yours. So pound away on it at any time of the day or night. That's the

Services like WAIS, and GOPHER underscore our enthusiasm for better,

easier-to-use technology for accessing the information stored on the

Net.  The wide variety of subject matter found in our anonymous FTP

archives is a working testimony to our belief in the free and open flow

of all kinds of information, not simply the official EFF positions and

And not only is our hardware the key distribution point for official EFF

and Academic Freedom, the Index on Censorship, the Boston Computer

Society, the Massachusetts branch of Computer Professionals for Social

Responsibility (CPSR), Beyond Dreams, and the Commercial Internet

Exchange (CIX).

Last month, an average of 1371 files *a day* were sucked down from our

archives. Some of your favorites, according to our statistics, are

File                                             Downloads in September

/pub/cud/phrack/phrack-40                                           454

/pub/EFF/legal-issues/eff-fbi-analysis                              230

/pub/EFF/about-eff                                                  197

/pub/cud/cud/cud4.41                                                173

/pub/internet-info/ftp.sites                                        101

/pub/journals/CORE/core1.08                                          53

/etc/passwd                                                          39

/pub/EFF/legal-issues/against-look-and-feel                          39

/pub/EFF/papers/crime-and-puzzlement                                 33

/pub/journals/InterText/ITv2n4-ascii                                 29

One of the best-kept secrets on ftp.eff.org is the relatively quiet

little corner occupied by the /journals directory.  One of the most

excellent and widely varied electronic publications.  Our two newest

additions to the magazine rack are CurrentCites, which presents selected

articles on information transfer, electronic publishing, expert systems

and artificial intelligence, and more; and ScreamBaby, a tense, neurotic

'zine that asks the all-consuming question "What the hell did *YOU* do

today?"

Other recent additions include a document on electronic communications

from Human Right Watch (/pub/EFF/papers/electrifying-speech); the first

edition of Word, the EFF-Austin chapter's newsletter (/pub/EFF/local-

chapters/Austin_TX/Word1); and the EJournal Directory, an extensive list

of electronic publications (/pub/journals/EJournal.Directory2.1).

We are always looking for new files of interest to add to our ftp

collection.  If you know of anything appropriate, please drop us a note

at eff@eff.org.

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 From the Univ of Wisconsin Microelectronics bulletin, Prof. F Cerrina

 as the author:

  "After the Microlithography '92 conference in Japan, we toured some

 of the leading electronics laboratories.  Our visit to Hitachi's

 Central Research Lab included an amusing demonstration of the

 resolution of current lithography.  On a four-inch wafer, they printed

 a map of the world that included the streets of London down to the

 smallest alleys.  It's now possible to put a fully detailed map of

 the world on a six-inch wafer."

 Food for thought...

 (Submitted by Gary Delp  )

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                    The Settling of the Internet

                         by David Tyckson

                     (DT673@ALBNYVMS.BITNET )

     It has been nearly three months since I sent my original "What's 

Going On Here?" message to PACS-L, which dealt with the migration from 

electronic to print format of some of my favorite network publications.  

While I expected some responses to this message, I did not expect the 

flood of material that came to me both privately and over the network.  

     The vast majority of responses disagreed with me and indicated that 

electronic media, and that the author has every right to select the 

moved into a variety of related topics, including copyright, the cost of 

the network, and even the global environment.  It is clear that my 

original message struck a nerve among many network users. 

     Some responses were predictable (the editors of PACS Review were 

not pleased with my attack on the print version of their publication), 

evolution of Zen and the Art of the Internet), and some were surprising 

(I did not realize that Zen had been written by an undergraduate 

myself quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, a fact which I 

became aware of only when the Office of the President of my university 

called to find out more about my "article" in the Chronicle! 

     After all of this discussion and publicity, what exactly is going 

on here?  The Internet is not dying, as my initial message may have led 

the moment.  All of the training sessions, publications, and new network 

for a long time to come.  It is not death that we must worry about, but 

     Because of this growth, something DID happen to the Internet last 

end of the network, but were signs of its maturation.  Whereas in the 

elite, they have grown to encompass a much broader clientele.  It is 

this volume of users that has resulted in the changes.  Last summer, the 

number of network users passed the critical mass required to attract 

nterest from commercial publishers and the press.  While this attention

from the communal aspects of the early users. 

     Like the telephone user who was required to move from a party line 

to a private line when he/she realized who else could be monitoring the 

calls, the presence of journalistic and commercial entities on the 

networks may change the nature of the information communicated over 

these networks.  Information that has been given away freely in the past 

may now require some type of payment to a publisher.  While the creators 

of information deserve credit (both intellectual and monetary) for their 

"skywriting" as we have known it in the past.  In addition, authors who 

may formerly have spontaneously responded to other messages may now be 

cautious in what they say and how they say it.  The numerous disclaimer 

     Last summer saw the passing of an era in networked resources.  

Before the summer, the network was populated primarily by pioneers, who 

explored its resources out of enthusiasm, interest, and a sense of 

exploration.  Now it is being populated by settlers, who wish to mine 

the networks in some sort of production mode.  The early users 

(pioneers) were able to explore and search in a somewhat unrestricted 

manner, creating their own rules as they went along.  Some did it for 

the challenge, some in search of specific types of resources, and others 

     The success of those pioneer efforts brought many more users onto 

the networks.  However, these new users did not usually have the same 

motives for utilizing networked resources.  Rather than exploring the 

network wilderness, the new users (settlers) want resources that they 

can use in their everyday lives.  They also want guides to these 

     Unfortunately, the cultures of pioneers and settlers do not always 

conform.  Pioneers want freedom, while settlers want order.  While some 

networked resources, others move on and continue to explore new areas.  

The pioneers laid the groundwork for the rest of us (I consider myself a 

very early settler) and we owe them our gratitude for making us aware of 

the capabilities of networked information.  While we may lament the 

moved on into an era in which more networked information will be 

available to more people than ever. 

     Last summer saw the passing of the era of the wild, wild Internet.  

available equitably for everyone.  I have faith that we, as information 

organizers, will be able to develop a culture that preserves democratic 

access to information resources.  If not, we will have settled a land 

not worth inhabiting.

                                                 David Tyckoson

                                    Head, Reference Department

                                          University Libraries

                                   University at Albany - SUNY

                                                (518) 442-3559

                                                DT673@ALBNYVMS 

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                         FROM THE MBOX

From: "Thomas Leedy, Admin A-402, Ext 2410" 

To: Electronic Frontier Foundation 

Subject:    Where Can I Get One of Those Bumper Stickers?

Date:    Thu, 15 Oct 92  09:46:31 EDT

and almost ran the poor guy off the road trying to read the Internet

address ...so I hope that I have this right. It said "I'd rather be

telecommuting. " Do you people make these available? If so how can I get

one? (The only other way I know is to steal the fellow's bumper!) Would

be interested in other material/positions that the Electronic Frontier

Foundation makes available.

Thanks!

Best ... Tom

leedy@micf.nist.gov

[Editors note:  Card-carrying members of the EFF can get one bumper

                    "I'd rather be telecommuting."

                              "CYBERNAUT"

                 "Highways in Cyberspace: 'Make it so.'"

                     "My other car is a computer."

  Gifs of these can be viewed by ftp'ing to ftp.eff.org and cd'ing to

/pub/EFF/eff-issues thanks to the generous volunteer work of Mark

Sheenan (sheehan@indiana.edu).]

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