At the working meeting of the project officers and coordinators
the decision has been made to start a new subsection "Project Log" (Section
"About the Project"). This subsection covers our every day work within
the framework of the project. The introduction of the project log appeared
to be a very useful initiate as it helps to enhance planning and regulation
of activities and will allow for further analysis of and accomplishments
and failures.
Voronezh Civnet continued to work with the editorial office
of Voronezh State Television and Radio company. In November, the project
officers made two more radio programs providing coverage of activities
under the project. Our radio programs assisted association of NGOs "Sodruzhestvo"
in their action of collecting clothing and toys for the invalid children
from the Regional Home for Invalid Children. We also provided informational
support for the staff of the school library of the village "Podgornoe"
who were campaigning to collect books for the library.
Voronezh Civnet held negotiations and signed an agreement
on cooperation with the Municipal Institution "Support of Youth and Adolescents".
This organization will house another one of the Civnet's Internet Public
Access Points in Voronezh.
The correspondence between the Civnet users in Voronezh and
citizens of Israel, initiated by the Civnet, became very active. The interactive
web page that has this correspondence attracts a lot of attention.
A meeting was held with the manager on development of the
publishing house "Computerra-Region". The areas of mutual interests were
discussed and directions of future cooperation were established.
Formation of informational technical infrastructure
We continued collection and processing of data to fill up
the server "Voronezh Civnet" (vcn.vorstu.ac.ru)
We introduced a new subsection "Project Log" that provides
coverage of our everyday activities on the project.
The entire server section "About the Project" was re-arranged
and updated.
We finished formation of a new section "American Impressions".
This new section is very interesting as it presents the United States as
seen by Voronezh citizens who are now residing there.
We prepared and published a material about the regional writer
association "Warrior Union".
We prepared and published the material on Voronezh National
Park as aprt of the section "Welcome to Voronezh".
We introduced two more personal pages featuring Voronezh
poetry writer Emilia Chumicheva and bard Sergei Grebennikov.
We regularly updated the information in the following sections:
"Regional News", "Regional Press Publications", "News of Public Life",
"Project News", "Bulletin Board".
Operation of the Main Public Access Point Facility
This month we welcomed our visitors as warmly as we did before.
We gave telephone consultations and provided our help to customers where
necessary. All services within the frameworks of the project were provided
to customers free of charge. This month the consulting service and web-workshop
continued to work.
We announced a contest for the best computer graphics work
within the school students of 7-11 grades who are attending our courses
"Foundations of Vectoral Graphics" and "Foundations of Raster Graphics".
The best works will be published on the Civnet's web site.
We continued courses for the members of association of NGOs
"Sodruzhestvo" (9 people).