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Over 12 MILLION hits on the K-Net servers for the second month in a row!!

Several of the K-Net servers that are being monitored for hits, visits and usage statistics using the webalizer program again showed an increase in June. In particular, the http://myknet.org server rose again to over 6.4 million hits during this month.

Please note:

• the Hosting server statistics are no longer included in the monthly K-Net statistics because individual sites are monitoring their own traffic;
• other on-line K-Net services, such as K-Net chat and the video streamer are not included in these numbers;
• server traffic monitoring information is located at http://tech.knet.ca/~tech/monitoring.

The June 26 issue of Wawatay News contains two more news stories about the work being completed within the Kuh-ke-nah Network of Smart First Nations demonstration project.

This week's issue of the Kuh-ke-nah page in Wawatay News include the following articles:

• First Nation schools get improved Internet connections - In partnership with Industry Canada's SchoolNet program, Keewaytinook Okimakanak staff are working with First Nation schools to access high speed Internet services. As the Administrations of the Ontario Regional Management Organization, Angie Morris and Barb Wong are supporting FN schools across the province to bring these connectivity resources into each First Nation.
• knews.knet.ca and community websites provide news - Barney Turtle (Fort Severn), David McKay (Keewaywin) and Darrell Ostamas (Deer Lake) are Keewaytinook Okimakanak First Nation Multi-media Producers hired under Industy Canada's Smart Communities program. They share how they work with their communities to post news stories about local happenings and information.
• K-Net Showcase - contains photos from the Poplar Hill First Nation portal (http://poplarhill.firstnation.ca)

Rick Garrick is researching additional stories for future articles. If you have a story that you want to share about this project and the work that is happening in your community to get connected, please send us an e-mail.

Various newspaper articles are being scanned and stored for reference purposes in this photo gallery.

NAN TECH 2003, held on June 18 to 20 in Thunder Bay, proved to be a great success. Thanks to the Nishnawbe Aski Nation IT Department team (especially Gordon Kakegamic) and the Ad/venture Group for hosting such a successful event. It was a lot a work for everyone involved!

The KO Smart Team were able to participate throughout the event with presentations, display booth, demonstrations, networking and learning from all the other participants. GREAT JOB everyone!!

On June 16, Stephane Giguere and Mike Collins from Telesat Canada in Ottawa travelled to Thunder Bay for meetings with Carl Seibel from FedNor along with K-Net staff (Brian and Dan). Discussions around K-Net's plans for supporting community networks and the future satellite bandwidth requirements highlighted the meeting. Strategies to ensure there is sufficient public benefit transponder space available to meet the immediate and long term needs for broadband applications were shared with the partners.

Keewaytinook Okimakanak (K-Net Services) has been invited to partner with CRACIN as a case study in their application to the Initiative on the New Economy (INE) Research Alliances program of the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

CRACIN, Canadian Research Alliance for Community Innovation and Networking, is proposing to "bring together leading Community Informatics researchers from across Canada, as well as internationally, to investigate the main Canadian government programs promoting the development and public accessibility of internet services." For more information visit the CRACIN web site.

K-Net staff participated in the initial meeting of this group on June 20 and 21 via video conference.

The June 12 issue of Wawatay News contains two more news stories about the work being completed within the Kuh-ke-nah Network of Smart First Nations demonstration project.

This week's Kuh-ke-nah page in Wawatay News include the following articles:

• Learning "Post Nuke" to better school websites - Solomon Mamakwa of Shibogama Education partnered with Angie Morris, Ontario's SchoolNet Administrator and K-Net's Multi-media team (Jesse Fiddler, Cal Kenny) to deliver a training workshop in the use of postnuke to create web portals for a number of First Nation schools across the district.
• New and old photographs posted online everyday - Keewaytinook Okimakanak First Nation Multi-media Producers share their stories about posting photographs and creating photo galleries for community members on their community's portals.
• K-Net Showcase - contains photos from the Deer Lake First Nation portal (http://deerlake.firstnation.ca)

Rick Garrick is researching additional stories for future articles. If you have a story that you want to share about this project and the work that is happening in your community to get connected, please send us an e-mail.

Various newspaper articles are being scanned and stored for reference purposes in this photo gallery.

During the week of June 9, Dan Pellerin (K-Net's Network Manager) and Adi Linden (K-Net's Network Systems Analyst) participated in a week long training workshop on the Network Management System (NMS) using the Linkway equipment. The training took place at the Viasat training facilities in the United States.

They were joined by our partners in the use of the public benefit satellite transponder, Ryan Spink and Denis Beaudoin who are both working to establish the Kativik Regionl Government (KRG) network in Northern Quebec along with Bob Popovic from Shibogama First Nations Council.

The training will provide further support for the development of the public benefit satellite resource as more communities develop the infrastructure required to utilize this service.

Watch for a report from the participants about the training workshop.

Adi Linden, K-Net's Systems Administrator, worked with Viasat staff last week to complete the change over to the new satellite Network Management System (NMS). On Friday night (May 30) and early Saturday morning, the change over to the K-Net system was successfully completed. Ongoing monitoring of the system over the weekend shows that the sites that were able to come back up on the new system are stable and operational.

This NMS was set up to support the management of Industry Canada's Public Benefit satellite space that has been made available to different groups for community applications. The new NMS was received and set up in Sioux Lookout in mid-May, after funding from Industry Canada's FedNor was received to support this development. For more information about this resource, visit http://smart.knet.ca/satellite.

K-Net staff is working with FedNor, Kativik Regional Government (KRG) and Shibogama Tribal Council staff to develop and maintain these resources. The second week in June, representatives from each of these groups are heading to Viasat's offices in Atlantic for further training in the operation of the NMS. Further network enhancements are being planned for the satellite served communities in the coming months.

Over 12 MILLION hits on the K-Net servers in the month of May!!

All the various K-Net servers that are being monitored for hits, visits and usage statistics using the webalizer program showed an increase in May. In particular, the http://myknet.org server rose by over 1.6 million hits from the previous month. This particular service seems to be providing another growing on-line environment and audience who are continually adding more features and content to their individual homepages.

A summary of the monthly recorded hits for the month of May follows:

http://knet.ca

3,031,758

http://webmail.knet.ca

1,818,707

Hosting server

763,988

http://kihs.knet.ca

403,112

http://photos.knet.ca

266,286

http://myknet.org

6,335,915

TOTAL Hits in May

12,619,766

Please note:

• the Hosting server statistics are lower only because the webalizer was not turned back on after some upgrades to the server;
• other on-line K-Net services, such as chat and the video streamer are not included in these numbers.

Dan Pellerin, K-Net's Network Manager, traveled to Winnipeg on May 29 to join the Manitoba Smart Network project, Industry Canada's team and others in the facilitation of a live video conferencing demonstration of broadband connectivity at the Federation of Canadian Municipalities Annual Conference.

Rob Lavin, Program Director of Manitoba Smart Network, worked with Gail Christopher and her team at Industry Canada to coordinate the different on-line activities that took place during this two day conference. The Headwaters Project in Northern Saskatchewan was also represented at this event as part of the Industry Canada booth at the trade show. Connections and live video conferencing sessions were made with different groups from across Canada throughout the two days.