RAC Projects 1994-1996

Resource Allocation Committee (was IPC)
Projects from 1994-1997

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DCN is the "carrier" of information resulting from this assistance

it is not the "publisher" and does not edit

sponsored- or mini-project web pages or other activities.

Projects are listed here in the order of their approval dates

JOURNALISM EDUCATION - Miniproject
Team Leader: James Shuman
Goal: A discussion group for middle and high school journalism teachers.
Approved: 10/96
A HyperNews set-up.
Expiration date: 6/30/97

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PRINTED MATTER - Miniproject
Team Leader: Elisabeth Sherwin
Technical assistance donated by Richard Yamagata of Davis Virtual Market
Goal: Book reviews and author interviews index.
Approved: 10/96
Additional 5mb web server storage
Use of the DCN search engine
Expiration Date: 6/30/97 (Then maintained for an indeterminate period by DVM)

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DAVIS BRANCH OF AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL - Miniproject
Team Leader: Jan Monzer
Goal: Information about local chapter and link to national chapter.
Approved: 9/4/96
One courtesy DCN non-dial-up account (Telnet access only)
Expiration date: 6/30/97

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DAVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS LISTERSERVERS - Miniproject
Team Leader: Richard Yamagata
Goal: To facilitate and encourage parents at Birch Lane, North Davis, and Valley Oak Elementary Schools to use the Internet.
Approved: 9/4/96
Four courtesy 14.4 DCN dial-up accounts, eighteen e-mail only accounts; six mail lists
Expiration date: 1/31/97

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BIRCH LANE SCHOOL - Sponsored Project

Team Leader: Alan Brattesani
Goal: Establish electronic communication within the school community
Approved: 5/1/96
Twenty-six courtesy 14.4 DCN e-mail accounts;
Technical assistance in setting up and testing local mail server;
Loan of five modems for teachers;
Set up a list-serve
Expiration date: 9/30/96: Extended through 11/30/96

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CALIFORNIA ARTS PROJECT (TCAP) - Miniproject
Team Leader: Jim Schuman
Goal: Open discussion among educators and persons in the arts community.
Approved: 5/1/96
Web Team assistance in setting up a HyperNews forum; Discussion thread storage space.
Expiration date: 9/30/96

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COMMUNITY WELLNESS NETWORK - Sponsored Project

Team Leader: Rick Lasslo
Goal: Provide information about clinic services and hours etc.; and basic public health information.
Work and content to be provided by UCD Medical Students with the content being supervised by Community Clinic and UCDMC faculty.
Approved: 4/3/96
Four courtesy 14.4 DCN accounts with standard disk storage space;
DCN Web Team assistance.
Requirements: Investigate the possibility of providing a kiosk at the Community Clinic
Expiration date: 9/30/96: Extended through 1/1997

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ELECTRONIC DEMOCRACY PROJECT - Sponsored Project

Team Leader: Steve McMahon
Goal: Provide means for candidate (in local election) information to be placed online; develop on-line analysis tools for review of candidate contributions; provide forum for civic participation.
Approved: 1/3/96
A courtesy 14.4 DCN account for each candidate (or staff person);
Candidates provide their own web page development.
Web Team will develop the statistical, financial and other and public-record information web pages
Expiration date: 4/1/96

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YOLO COUNTY LIBRARY - Miniproject
Team Leader: Linda Shoemake and Pam Billard
Approved: 11/1/1995
No dial-up accounts needed
10mb storage space on the web server in name of Reinhart Pribish who is to provide graphics.
Monthly Updating donated by Virtual Market's Richard Yamagata.
Expiration date: 9/30/96

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YOLO COUNTY LANDFILL - Miniproject
Team Leader: Ramin Yazdani
Goal: Provide access to information on waste reduction, recycling, and the Yolo County Central Landfill activities.
Approved: 10/4/95
Five courtesy 14.4 DCN accounts;
Information Provider training and Web Team assistance;
Expiration date: 9/30/96

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DQ UNIVERSITY - Miniproject
Team Leader: David Childress, with Jack Riggens
Goal: Provide public access to information about DQ University's classes, newsletters, events, and faculty and staff statements.
Approved: 10/4/95
Four courtesy 14.4 DCN accounts with standard web storage space. 16 added in February 1996.
Expiration date: 9/30/96

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CAMPUS & CITY SERVICES Page for UCD Students (from City of Davis/UC Davis) - Miniproject
Team Leader: Lucian Baker (Student Liaison Commission)
Goal: Facilitate interaction between students, student organizations, and the community of Davis. Create information source of campus and city services.
Approved: 9/21/95.
One courtesy 14.4 DCN account and web space, web linkage);
Expiration date: 9/30/96

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YOLO COUNTY ELECTIONS OFFICE - Sponsored Project

Team Leader: Tony Bernhard
IPC Reviewer: Steve MacMahon
Goal: Put County Clerk and voter registration information on-line;
Put election night results on-line as ballots are counted.
Approved: 9/21/95
Resources: 1 courtesy 14.4 DCN account with standard 2mb disk storage and web-publishing capabilities; 3 reserved seats at DCN Information Provider classes; DCN web linkages and hard disk space; webteam support (some in November; more in March); simplified web address (go/election) for the election account; spotlighted link off DCN home page for election night and some time preceding
Requirements/Follow-up: County Clerk's office to do web page development and maintenance, and work closely with DCN for election night success
Expiration: 4/1/96; Extension through 9/30/96

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YOLO COUNTY - Sponsored Project

Team Leader: George Chumbley
IPC Reviewer: Vicki Suter
Goal: Cooperative effort between DCN and the County to provide the residents with access to County departments and analysts.
Approved: 9/21/95
Resources: 25 courtesy 14.4 (22 individual and 3 departmental) DCN accounts with standard 2mb disk storage, e-mail, file transfer and web publishing capability for each, maximum of 2 hrs/day access per account at a cost of $2,000 total; additional storage (to be negotiated) for county's web pages
Requirements/Follow-up: County personnel to do web page development and maintenance, and work closely with DCN web team; County to provide access to County facilities in Woodland for use for DCN training and as public assess site; County to explore offering DCN access to county fiber backbone; DCN Executive Committee to work with County in developing detailed MOU documenting these arrangements
Expiration: 9/30/96

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KIDS LITERARY MAGAZINE - Miniproject
Team Leader: Sunny Booher
Goal: Provide an on-line magazine for potential authors or artists aged 5-16 years
Approved: 9/21/95 for six month project
One courtesy 14.4 DCN account with 2 mb limit for six months
Expiration date: 3/30/96

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AMERICAN YOUTH SOCCER ORGANIZATION (AYSO) - Sponsored Project

Team Leader: Joan Gargano and Kimball Sergeant
IPC reviewer: Vicki Suter
Goal: Develop comprehensive communication strategy for coach-player-referee-parent communication.
Approved: 9/21/95
Resources: 30 courtesy 14.4 DCN accounts for the AYSO Board members and selected coaches, associated 2mb disk storage per account
Requirement/Follow-up: MOU be negotiated between AYSO and DCN that AYSO guarantees recruitment or payment of 15 paid subscriptions to match the 30 subsidized subscriptions, within 6 months; Vicki Suter and Joan Gargano to explore the "community communications center" concept further with AYSO and DCTV and report at next IPC meeting
Expiration: 9/30/96

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CITY OF DAVIS HOUSING WEB - Miniproject
Team Leader: James Lee
Goal: Develop housing content on-line focusing on rental properties.
Approved: 9/21/95 for a six months demonstration project:
Five courtesy 14.4 DCN accounts, no extra web space (providing own web server)
Expiration date: 3/30/96

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DAVIS VIRTUAL MARKET - Use of Forms for Web Transactions - Sponsored Project
Pizza Ordering, Book Ordering, Information Posting

Team Leader: G. Richard Yamagata
Goal: Provide business content on DCN and test everyday use of forms to transact business. Recruit ten companies and establish their web sites; provide training so companies can maintain their own information.
Approved: 9/21/95
Resources: 10 courtesy 14.4 K DCN accounts with 2mb disk storage; 20 slots in DCN basic training sessions
Requirements/Follow-up: DVM provides: labor for creation of business web sites, web server, CGI C and shell script programming for forms processing; on-site installation of software for business participants; consulting contact for ongoing support to businesses
Expiration: 9/30/96

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Joint FEEFHS/Davis Sister City Uman - Miniproject
Team Leader: John Movius (and Maynard Skinner)
Goal: Strengthen the Sister Cities project and person-person contact between Davis residents and people in Uman, Ukraine, Belarus, and russia for personal. multi-cultural, heritage and family history reasons.
Approved: 9/21/95
One Courtesy 14.4 DCN account for six months, includes standard web page storage space;
appropriatelinkages off DCN and e-mail address;
four lists, totalling at most 400 names; at such times as total goes over 400, account needs to switch to paid; if technically feasible and appropriate once evaluation complete, convert as soon as possible to Hypernews from mailing lists
Expiration date: 3/30/96

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MIGRANT EDUCATION - Miniproject
Team Leader: Jan Meizel
Goal: To improve migrant education through the Portable Assisted Study Sequence (PASS) program.
Approved: 9/21/95
Use of City's training lab
5 courtesy 14.4 DCN accounts for migrant students
Expiration Date: 9/30/96

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SACRAMENTO CITY COMMUNITY COLLEGE Information web page - Miniproject
Team Leader: Bob Carroll
Goal: Provide access to on-line course catalog, schedules and general information.
Approved: 9/21/95
One courtesy 14.4 DCN account
Expiration date: 9/30/96

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SIM DAVIS - Miniproject
Team Leader: Karl Simanonok
Goal: Build an interactive computer model of Davis incorporating influences such as economy, population, traffic, growth etc.
Approved: 9/21/95
Five free 14.4 DCN accounts and associated disk space
Expiration date: 9/30/96

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EXPLORIT SCIENCE CENTER - Sponsored Project

Team Leader: R. Anne Hance
IPC Reviewer: Jason Aller
Goal: Development of an educational resource with information about Explorit's services and hours as well as science content both static and participatory. The project will also provide professional growth opportunities through the Informal Science Educators' Network List-Serve and others.
Approved: 9/21/95
5 courtesy 14.4 DCN accounts; 10mb of hard disk space; 20 hours of DCN webteam time.
Requirement/Follow-up: Explorit sponsors and writes grants to fund public access site for DCN; Explorit promotes DCN by negotiating link exchanges with other science centers
Expiration: 9/30/96;
Extended through 9/30/97 with just one courtesy 14.4 DCN account with 10mb disk space.

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CITY OF DAVIS POLICE DEPARTMENT - Miniproject
Team Leader: Christian Sandvig
Goal: Add public safety and community service information to the existing web pages.
Approved: 8/2/95:
5 courtesy 14.4 DCN accounts, including basic new user training and support (3 currently in use);
moderated newsgroup (currently in use: "davis.crime");
mailing lists (2 currently in use, more expected);
option to re-evaluate method of connection to DCN at a later date
Expiration Date: 9/30/96; extension through 2/28/97 with just one free account.

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YOLO COUNTY GRAND JURY REPORT - Miniproject
Team Leader: Paul Healey
Goal: To post the annual Grand Jury Report.
Approved: 7/95
Completed 8/95

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DAVIS FOOD COOP - Sponsored Project

Team Leader: Doug Walter/Vicki Suter
Goal: Provide grocery store content information; and implement teleshopping service for disabled, seniors and others.
Approved: for FY 1994-95 and extended through January 1996
Resources: 100 free 14.4 DCN accounts and associated 2mb disk storage space for each; some DCN webteam support for setting up prototype pages
Expiration: 1/96

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