[SATLUG] does anyone know anything about SATAI? SalsaNet?

[Al Castanoli]

On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 16:16 -0500, satlugacct at jchampion.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Many moons ago when I worked with Road Runner, SalsaNet was kind of a  
> "who's who" of SA's IT community thinkers and SATAI didn't exist.
> 
> I figure that the only way that I'm going to get out of this doldrum  
> that I'm in at my employment is to network and make a name for myself  
> outside of these four walls and my friends.
> 
> Does anyone have any dealings with these groups? Feel free to email me  
> offlist and let me know if I'm barking up the right tree.

Before Road Runner came to town, SalsaNet was supposed to become the San
Antonio cog in the FreeNet collection of .orgs that collapsed around
1995.  There are still some sterling examples of community based
freenets like the Rio Grande Freenet rgfn.org and the Alachua County
Freenet afn.org in Florida.  They all started off with academic
sponsorship (rgfn.org was rgfn.epcc.edu and afn.org was
freenet.ufl.edu).

Sadly, SalsaNet never agreed to associate with the vallejos although
when I was a member of rgfn, we invited them down several times, and
instead of being a community based freenet it became a social club for
members of the Chambers of Commerce.  I wasn't a vallejo, but was a
military linguist who helped out with technical jargon in the users
guides.  We got published at http://lingnet.army.mil as a resource for
bilingual newspapers and area guides when Chuck Tetlow was the system
administrator out at DLI in Monterey, CA.

SalsaNet's website is still prattling on about becoming a FreeNet, but
they were saying that when SATLUG was founded.

Al Castanoli
     Proud recipient of several SalsaNet brushoffs.