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.

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.

Here's a little note on things we're working on, and other tidbits for/from the Association For Community Networking.

First, again, I wish to publicly welcome Angela Stuber to the AFCN Advisory Council. Angela and the Ohio Community Computing Network were recognized in November at the ilCTC conference with the Midwest Community Networking Award, and are the first recipient of the award. Angela serves as Executive Director of the OCCN, and the OCCN has just celebrated 10 years.

Recognizing Angela and the OCCN offers us a moment to reflect upon a few things: the importance of regional community networking and our building our capacity at that level, and also, the importance of the relationship between community networking and the community technology sector. (Many of you will recognize Angela as current President of the Board of CTCNet, and OCCN's historical base in Ohio CTCs.)

Minutes for AFCN Board Meeting July 12, 2005

Minutes authored by Frank Odasz, send revisions/additions to frank@lone-eagles.com

Attending were:
Karen M., Dan E., Gary S., Michael M, Frank O., Stel and Max G. Kevin gave prior notice he could not make it.

We discussed the VOIP test with Stel, Sascha, Gary, and Frank participating. Frank had poor quality backhaul but could hear fine. Frank

Minutes for AFCN Board Meeting July 12, 2005

Minutes authored by Frank Odasz, send revisions/additions to frank@lone-eagles.com

Attending were: Karen M., Dan E., Gary S., Michael M, Frank O., Stel and Max G. Kevin gave prior notice he could not make it.

We discussed the VOIP test with Stel, Sascha, Gary, and Frank participating. Frank had poor quality backhaul but could hear fine. Frank