[Winona Online Democracy]
My WSHS Class of '87 is having its 20 year - yikes! - reunion on
Saturday, June 16th.
My wife and I will be down from the cities a bit early, so who would
like to/can meet up from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. that day? How about at
Sammy's Pizza?
Drop me a note if you can make it: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
E-Democracy.Org is ready to help you move to our new sophisticated open
source forum platform called GroupServer. It works both like the e-mail
list you know and a web forum for those who want less e-mail. You can
even share pictures and files. See:
http://forums.e-democracy.org
We also would like to identify a handful of folks to represent your
local steering committee and have an online group in mind to support
forum management and other local e-democracy activities.
If an informal meeting doesn't work, perhaps an official conference call
in the next month or so might help build momentum to the technology upgrade.
Cheers,
Steven Clift
E-Democracy.Org
P.S. Some items that may of interest:
1. We now have forums in three communities in England and new regional
forum in New Zealand.
2. We are drafting a proposal for a few Issues Forums in rural Minnesota
along with some citizen media training. Perhaps Winona might be a good
site for one of the regional trainings? See draft from:
http://e-democracy.org/blog/posts/91
3. We have a project blog: http://e-democracy.org/blog
4. Winona Online Democracy was featured in a case study about
e-democracy in Bristol UK. See: http://e-democracy.org/blog/posts/93
5. I received an Ashoka Fellowship. It starts with a three year stipend
which is allowing me to work for E-Democracy.Org full-time. One of our
Board's emerging priorities is to provide more support to local efforts.
Tim Erickson is helping lead that and I am working to raise funds to
support his huge efforts into the future.
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