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Quarterly Reports
SUBPROJECT REPORT PROTOCOL
A report for each subproject is required quarterly and annually. The
following should be completed with particular emphasis on accomplishments
during the reporting period.
1. Name of principal investigator.
Dmitry V. Latukhin
2. Title of proposal.
Chelyabinsk Civic Networking
3. Report period (time period covered by report).
April - June 2000
4. Names and institutions of collaborators, if any (US and/or Russia).
Show the names of every person or organization, which take part in project
or intend to participate or finance the project additionally.
Southern Ural State University (SUSU)
Division of WAN Technologies / Ural Regional Center of FREEnet
The Chelyabinsk Scientific Center, Ural Branch of Russian Academy of
Sciences
5. Purpose and objectives of proposal
Launching and development of Chelyabinsk Civic Network
6. Accomplishments during report period :
a. meetings and communications pertaining to output (with full
address):
There aws held a meeting with leaders of Astra ST company for discussing
possibility of connecting of SUSU and respectively CCN and FREEnet to RBnet
(Russian Backbone Network) through fiber optical cable. The participants
were: general director Igor Tumanov, technical director Konstantin Kubantsev
and main specialist Dar'ya Korotkevich.
b. activities in Chelyabinsk or other locations pertaining to
output (description, diagrams for technical issues) :
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The main result of the meeting was the agreement about creation of "last
mile" - fiber optical line between CCN/FREEnet center and Rostelekom interconnection
point. The sides have coordinated a scheme of laying the cable and have
determinated their cooperation conditions.
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Hitherto CCN used communications of regional center FREEnet, in particular
radio and infrared Ethernet systems, dedicated telephone links. Using of
optical link will simplify access to Chelyabinsk-Moscow main line and will
increase reliability. Besides, so we will receive a technical possibility
of participation in such projects as NaukaNet.
Some other interesting questions were discussed at the meeting,
including the issues on service commercial organizations by power the specialists
CCN/FREEnet center, which are located in the territory of campus. We suppose
that this helps us to get an additional financing for current projects.
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To launch "last mile" the center purchased the equipment (optical modems,
cable and other) of the total near $6500.
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One more personal computer, provided by the Friend and Partners foundation
in 1998, has been upgraded due to means of CCN center, - memory was
added, hard disk was replaced
c. progress towards achieving purpose and objectives :
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Home page of center "Childhood" (its leader is Ludmila Kuznetsova) was
put on http://www.ccn.org.ru web
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This center has collaborated with CCN already for year. One of the
mutual with organization "Our children" projects was a summer school
(1999) for the children with a motor system deflections. Next steps
were opening Internet-club and realizing the project "Count It!". Information
on the last one was used for illustrations of RCNP activity at recent conference.
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Three persons with disabilities received access to Internet through CCN.
They took a short training, became subscribers of our mailing list, constant
contacts were established with them by email, phone and personally.
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Specialists of center finished a development of chat server. Its
LE-a version has been compiled on CCN site for on-line debates. One of
such discussion devoted to local self-government is planned in September-October,
with the participation of Administration athorities of Chelyabinsk
City . Its organizer - "Feminine network on Ural". (Rights on getting the
full version of server are obtained by a German company.)
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From the very beginning of CCN project we are publishing e-zine "Chelyabinsk
Globe", which is telling about the city, its inhabitants, events of cultural
life. Thanks to this activity the center has gained digital camera Nikon
Coolpix 950, 8-mm comcoder. In 2000 we got an additional financing - a
mini grant from "Project a Harmony". New accessories were purchased for
the issue: converters for the camera, a digital speech recorder. All this
equipment is used as well as for CCN tasks.
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On 17 June a seminar was held in SUSU, at which Dmitry Latukhin and
Victor Krivoschokov made presentation about new information technologies
and their using for training NGO staff and specialists in universities.
Almost 40 persons presented at the seminar.
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The mailing lists of CCN, grants and for the technical user support have
continued their functioning. Total number of their subscribers in the end
of June was 150.
d. issues and problems:
One should say that CCN project is being developed successfully. Practically,
we have finished building of the whole complex of network services for
nonprofit users, including web hosting, email, mailing lists, gateways
for working with HTTP and FTP through the e-mail, chat server. In the nearest
future the virtual bulletin board (forum) will be opened as well.
At the same time the staff of CCN/FREEnet center are unable completely
to change a situation in Chelyabinsk regarding NGO activities. Some of
these organizations suffer from the turnover of personnel, feel declines
of activity. Many as before depend on the public bodies themselves, from
their active positions. We do all hanging from us to make the conditions
of existence of NGO "information comfortable".
e. training activities and number of individuals trained:
f. number of men and number of women participating in specific
activities :
From medium of March to the end of May in the CCN center "Internet for
everybody" was carrying out learning course of NGO specialists which is
concerned bases of work in network and web design. It was visited by 17
persons (4 men and 13 women) from eight organizations.
Students took lectures about HTML, reviews on JavaScript, CSS and CGI,
they got a possibility to experiment in creating of personal web pages,
in using of such packages as Macromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe ImageStyler,
Xara WebStyle and others. They have received also specially recorded CDs
with freeware and shareware, required for web masters: utilities, browsers,
etc.
In the center there were held several seminars, the subjects was:
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Bases of work with the raster graphics. Adobe Photoshop.
6 persons (4 women/2 men) attended the seminar.
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Internet: bases of work. Information retrieval (24 hours)
21 persons (16 women/ 5 men) attended the seminar.
Dmitry Latukhin,
The project coordinator
Email: [email protected]
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