ZX-Net - Board sysops finally happened!

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Small tip Hot on the heels

Gentlemen users of our network!

I hasten to bring you the good news:

Board sysops, the need is so long

many have said, finally finished!

And, importantly, very successfully.

As should already be aware, the main theme of the Council
was adoption of a single network ZXNet Charter and the election
of the Regional Coordinator.

Now, when the Council is over, I could clearly see our
Prospects: With a clear structure and organization of life in
network significantly facilitated, blee become effective, as
well as in all of us will vozmzhnost communicate with the
world's major networks.

But perhaps now all the more interested in how
passed the Council itself, where and when.

That's what I'm going to tell.

The total collection of sysops was appointed on Feb. 3, 1916
hours. Location was chosen fairly original, but it is
tolerable: the most popular in Moscow hotel "Metropol'.... Name
VI Lenin.

Historic site were just two stations -
"Alexander Garden" and "Arbat" Filevskaya line. Must
recognize that the venue was solved with great difficulty, then
blood. Over the task of organizing work Stever, Alex and I (Dr.
Longman). How many different places for this ambitious
hangouts just do not remember!

The most promising option seemed to be an empty auditorium
in any college, school or other educational institution.

Further, as you like this Place was proposed ...
Technical Museum, which, in principle, is not surprising
because there is already arranged a presentation Step'ovtsy.
But we just not enough time to probe how should this area.
Stever trying to talk to the administration of the same
library, but there All too bummer. Metropolevsky version we
tried think about it but we seemed hopeless. Twenty people

arguing about something in a subway station - is you know a few
attracted worldwide attention. In particular, law enforcement
bodies (Tse hto takye Sysopy?). Days left
too little and then saved the situation Nik Borel, for which
many thanks to him. He spoke about the uphill Filevskaya
line and pointed to the station 'Arbat' as a potential
gathering place of the Council. And he was right.

It was decided to meet at the station 'Alexander's Garden'
so as to converge all of its lines that could come
members of the Council. Since it's the first funny thing is
connected. We agreed to meet at the head car of a train,

coming from the center. But none of us even in a nightmare is
unlikely Whether imagined that the train at the station head

cars ... two! One one end, another - with another. AND
not at all the train coming from the center. He is one goes and
there and here at once! (Einstein at the moment should be in a
coffin turned the poor fellow.)

At the meeting I went to Alberta companies to FREEDOM BBS,
so together we chkatsya the platform in search of similarity
Head coach Filevskaya tyanitolkaya was not so boring.

Finally, after some searching the right car after all
find. On the platform grimly walked personality frozen
species, upon closer inspection, caught by none other than
Markus'om.

It turns out, has already managed to go on utretsa
"Shifted" Mitinskaya market and pretty there pomerz. A view of
the the fact that "Alexander Garden", he hung out for an hour

(!), His joy when our appearance is quite understandable. My
watch As usual, pointed bag of rabbits on metropolevskih hours

was 15:20. Historic moments started their countdown ...

Soon on the platform turned up some people
suspicion is not sitting down in a train arriving and
oppressive sadness peering into the crowd passing by
citizens.

We started a loud conversation about the difficulties of
life and sysops Soon a suspicious man approached us, being Lord

Winter'om. It became more fun SysOp'y knocked shoals. Finally,
to was added to our crowd and the crowd headed Alex'om

Stever'om. All were assembled, lacking only two
people and we all went to the opposite end
platform in the hope of finding them there.

I tell you, dear readers, it was awesome
show: Twenty people, with very happy faces,
fun Pruszcz through anything and everything! Passengers dropped
to the floor jaw and huddled in fear to the walls.

At the opposite end of the platform we did not find anyone.
Since time is running out (16:05), we went to
"Arbat" is not waiting.

On the way we are entertained by some polupyanenky peasant,
to which apparently did not reach the essence of what is
happening, and he began aloud to paint their prowess and skills
in karate, judo, sambo and jiu-jitsu. In words, of course. The
whole car showing his teeth and have fun.

Finally we arrived. Together had fallen out of the car, the
participants Council climbed the ladder and found themselves in
a rather respectable "pocket" where there have been many places
and for a more solid crowd.

To us, no one absolutely no attention, if not
assume a policeman, who slapped his eyes mysteriously
dissolved in the air and a strange couple of string bags, which
came up with the words "Something give ...", but heard
expressions like "Sysops", "servers" and "the hour of silence"
diranuli from us like the devil of incense.

So, we ended up in quite tolerable conditions and started
reading and adoption of the Charter. Stever took out his pocket
recorder so that all our words are now fixed and reliably

preserved for posterity.

Not without pride, said he had everything in first reading
almost without discussion and debate (Fu! What a vocabulary!),
with minor additions. I really thoroughly ripped off

his voice, trying to read the chapters of the Charter to block
the noise of trains, but not a bit sorry for you. The goal, in
this case, it is justified the means.

Peresskazyvat all about what was said, I think it makes no
sense. Board lasted about two hours and was told many things.

Enumerating the major decisions of the First Council:

1. Network computer, ZXNet, - to be!

2. Charter - reasonable, passed unanimously!

3. Alex'a - for mayor, that is, sorry, in the Regional

Coordinators! Also unanimously.

In addition, we compiled a graphical layout of the network
and discuss all communication. Fore Network Coordinators and

independent nodes.

Grand total - more than successful.

Once again I congratulate everyone with such a

milestone - the birth of

computer network e-mail ZXNet!