Association For Community Networking - Getting everyone connected!

Sad news at end of year: the passing of Steve Snow

Tropology — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:09:03 -0600

Earlier this year the Community Networking family mourned the passing of Steve Cisler.

Today we learned of the pasing of another of the founders of the AFCN ... Steve Snow passed away this weekend. He will be greatly missed.

Here follows the obituary note.

Stephen Hopkins Snow, MA, PhD

Stephen Hopkins Snow, formerly of Charlotte, NC and St. Petersburg, Fl. died suddenly on December 27^th in Asheville, NC where he maintained a clinical practice in counseling. He was the loving father of Stephanie Snow Tursi, Mary Snow and Timothy Snow of Charlotte, NC and Katie Snow-Rackley of Cleveland Heights, Ohio and is survived by grandchildren: Amanda, Ella, Jonah, Benjamin, Ruthie, Samuel and Thomas Tursi and Eli and Sylvia Rackley and siblings Roger Snow of Boston, Ma., Susan Snow-Burnett of Norfolk, Va., and Deb Snow of Santa Cruz, Ca. He will also be mourned by his former wife Patt Snow, friend Ed Fierstos and fiancée Cynthia Yancey.

Twenty-one years since the first DIAC Symposium! Call for Participation -- DIAC-2008 / OD2008

Tropology — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:49:21 -0600

Tools for Participation:
Collaboration, Deliberation, and Decision Support

Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing Symposium
Conference on Online Deliberation
(DIAC-2008/OD2008)

Sponsored by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
and UC Berkeley School of Information

Partners: National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD)

University of California, Berkeley
June 26 - 29, 2008
http://www.publicsphereproject.org/events/diac08/

International Summit for Community Wireless Networks: Call for Panels

Tropology — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:33:13 -0600

CALL FOR PANELS — Due March 31, 2008

International Summit for Community Wireless Networks
May 28-30, 2008, Washington, DC
Send panel proposals and questions to: summit@chambana.net

Since the first National Summit for Community Wireless Networks in
2004, hundreds of community Internet and municipal broadband
initiatives have sprung up around the globe. Internet access is
increasingly important to all facets of civil society, but many
communities are being left out of this communications revolution.

One Web Day 2007 - September 22

Tropology — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:05:55 -0500

September 22 is One Web Day, celebrate the changes in our world and the positive dimensions of the Internet in our lives!

http://onewebday.org

Community Media Summit - 2007

Tropology — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 11:57:37 -0500

Friday, June 15, 2007 was a very special day for community in Chicago and for Chicago community media. The Benton Foundation and the Community Media Workshop convened a Community Media Summit with the launch of the Benton Media Scan - What's Going on in Community Media a report by Fred Johnson of the University of Massachusetts, Boston with Karen Menichelli, Benton Foundation.

Julia Stasch, Chair of Mayor Daley's Advisory Council on Closing the Digital Divide released it's official report at the summit - the Chicago Report on Digital Excellence.

Wireless Summit, SEO and Civic Gardens

Tropology — Tue, 15 May 2007 14:31:50 -0500

Third time's the charm! The International Summit for Community Wireless Networks is a few days away. We look forward to seeing you there.

SEO and the NPO: Grassroots.org has launched a toolkit for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for non-profits - spread the word.

Civic Garden: The notion of the Civic Garden we've been promoting locally in Chicago (as an evolution of the Minneapolis' "Walled Garden") is being taken up in Minneapolis.

ICANN, RALO, ALS

Tropology — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:22:45 -0500

Friends,

Who among you has interest in ICANN issues? Are you following them currently? Which issues have your attention?

AFCN is following ICANN and the process of the formation of Regional At Large Organizations (RALOs) which serve as an aggregation of "At Large Structures" (ALSs) in each region (global).

The At Large process is intended as a vehicle for everyday users of the Internet to have a voice in Internet governance questions.

Whether the voice of everyday users will play a meaningful role in Internet governance and ICANN specific issues remains to be determined, but if you are active or have interest in becoming active in following these issues or in helping educate the public or providing a channel so their voice can be heard, please let us know.

Developments in the Open Movement: Feb 2007

Tropology — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 03:37:55 -0600

I've just returned from Recent Changes Camp 2007 (Portland)

Recent Changes takes it's name from Wiki tool and takes it's inspiration from Wiki Culture

Among the many developments of this Open Space format event is the effort to establish an Open Guild. See the wiki: http://www.oguild.org

Under this rubric there is opportunity for a place-based node for Portland as well as a more general virtual community and dreams of a network of such place-centered nodes. Open Source technologists/developers are a core constituency, but there was some care in framing the idea as being about an Open movement, rather than just Open Source.

Silicon Valley community panel calls for public input on equal access to municipal broadband

admin — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:15:54 -0500

SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Oct. 18 2006. A community panel organized by Santa Clara University's Center for Science, Technology, and Society and the Broadband Institute of California urged greater public participation in planning broadband networks that are being commissioned by local governments around the country. The panel also asserted that truly equal access to municipal broadband can only be achieved by providing underserved groups -- seniors, low-income, rural residents, the disabled, and non-English speakers -- a free or discounted tier of service with the same speed, privacy, and security available to households that pay full price.

Workshop: Open Source CMS and CRM

jhallman — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:56:44 -0500

John Kenyon, a highly recommended professional trainer, will conduct a
workshop Thursday, November 2, 2006, at the Fitzpatrick Center for
Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences (FCIEMAS)
on the Duke University campus, Durham, NC. The morning session is on
Open Source Content Management Systems, focusing on Drupal, and the
afternoon session is on Open Source Customer Relationship Management
Systems, focusing on CiviCRM. See http://civicrm.org/aboutcivicrm for
more information about CiviCRM and a list of key features.

Registration is open to the public. You may register for only the