I'd like to announce that the Floaters Organization has taken another step forward.
This time, our "floating" technology integration project is opening its doors on terra firma, with a six-month agreement to begin our own CTC. (In the past we have focused on home-based technology integration or built CTC's for other groups.) We have been given funding for six months, and from there on plan to pay the rent, and a stipend to staff, by offering modestly priced tech support. All other services (computer use, classes, wireless Internet) will be free, along with soup and coffee when they are hot. The Floaters Organization has been quietly bringing people and technology together since 1995. We use grassroots networking, peer mentoring, and consensus decision making. Because we have grown slowly, member skills are solid. We can write academic papers AND fix computers. And we think that our methods are worth emulating. Last time I wrote with such news, we had just moved from home-based technology integration to putting together our first CTC, with a small grant, for a Baptist mission. We set it up, learned from our mistakes, set up another one (again for someone else and without pay) and now have our own! Visit us if you are ever in Tempe, Arizona. http://www.floaters.org http://www.floaters.org/proposal Sandy Andrews -- Sandra Sutton Andrews, PhD Director, Instruction and Research The Floaters Organization "Float On" - Modest Mouse _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
