These Minutes were submitted after the cut-off for inclusion in the
Proceedings.

CURRENT MEETING REPORT
Reported by Ellen Hoffman/Merit

Minutes of the Training Materials BOF (TRAINMAT)

Introduction of BOF attendees and discussion of training activities.
 
The attendees introduced themselves and discussed their interest in
training with a focus on what they expect from a working group. Most
attendees were directly involved in training development, primarily
for end users and some for system administrators and network
operators. Very few did hands-on training. Jill Foster described the
United Kingdom NISP/ITTI Training Materials project at the University
of Newcastle to collect and develop training materials (available
through anonymous ftp to mailbase.ac.uk in directory pub/itti-networks).
 
Review of Charter and formation of joint RARE/IETF Working Group 
 
Jill Foster noted the intent of the BOF was to develop a joint RARE/IETF
Training Materials Working Group, which was accepted by the Group. The
draft IETF Charter was distributed for comments, and the Group agreed
that this should move forward. The Charter was reviewed, The initial
focus was viewed to be towards training people to use the networks and
how to use services on the network. In addition, the first step was
determined to be collecting and disseminating information on training
materials as well as training materials themselves, with an evaluation
component to be considered in the future. Some discussion of the
differences between training materials and documentation led to
agreement to focus on materials meant for group or individual
training, either on-line or in classroom situations rather than on
materials about the Internet which were more likely to be included in
the User-Doc Working Group bibliographies. The Group agreed to the focus of the
Charter in developing a training catalog and to provide a
comprehensive package of "mix and match" training materials. It was
also agreed that discussion for this Group would take place on the
general User Services mailing list with the provision that if
required, a new list would be created in the future.
 
The Group's goals to produce a catalog was discussed, with the materials
produced at Newcastle as a potential model. The Group agreed to work
on an on-line catalog, and the Clearinghouse for Networked
Information Discovery and Retrieval (CNIDR) volunteered to host the
database. The data elements developed for the Coalition for Networked
Information (CNI) Top Node project will be used as a model for
producing the fields.
 
Useful training materials
 
Some time was spent discussing training materials that were currently
available. This included a review of materials produced by the
project at Newcastle. Other sources included:
 
    the Internet/BITNET Network trainers list:
    nettrain@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu (to subscribe: mail to
    listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu with the text of the message:
    subscribe nettrain yourfirstname yourlastname.
 
    Merit's "Cruise of the Internet," a disk based tutorial for
    Macintosh and Windows (available for anonymous ftp at
    nic.merit.edu in the directory /resources) as well as their
    regular seminars --now translated into Spanish (El Cruso!) as
    well--which are held throughout the U.S. as open programs and
    on request by organizations (for information, send to
    seminar@merit.edu).
 
    the monthly "Internet Scavenger Hunt," which challenges
    interested users to locate information available through the
    Internet using Internet tools and techniques, with answers
    provided the following month (information available through the
    nettrain mailing list).
 
    the UC-Davis developed "Mining the Internet," a hands-on
    workshop, available through anonymous FTP from ucdavis.edu in the
    directory ucd.netdocs/mining.
 
    the online course, "Navigating the Internet," which is available
    over the network and has had 15,000 registrants.
 
    the book, "Crossing the Internet Threshold: an Instructional
    Handbook," by Roy Tennant, Anne Lipow and John Ober from Library
    Solutions Press.
 
Other activities discussed
 
The Group discussed mailing lists to make information available on
upcoming training events open to others, improving network access to
online training, and the need for demo sites that can be used by
classes who are doing hands-on training.

Attendees

"Jodi-Ann Chu"                <jodi@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
"Henry Clark"                 <henryc@oar.net>
"Naomi Courter"               <naomi@concert.net>
"Jill Foster"                 <jill.foster@newcastle.ac.uk>
"Alisa Hata"                  <hata@cac.washington.edu>
"Ellen Hoffman"               <ellen_hoffman@um.cc.umich.edu>
"Lenore Jackson"              <jackson@nsipo.nasa.gov>
"Laura Kelleher"              <lak@merit.edu>
"Janet Marcisak"              <jlm@ftp.com>
"Marsha Perrott"              <mlp+@andrew.cmu.edu>
"Joyce K. Reynolds"           <jkrey@isi.edu>
"Jennifer Sellers"            <sellers@nsipo.arc.nasa.gov>
"Patricia Smith"              <psmith@merit.edu>
"Simon Spero"                 <simon_spero@unc.edu>
"Tang Tang"                   <tt@virginia.edu>
"Moira West"                  <mjw@cert.org>