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.

The Community Technology Centers' Network is convening it's 15th annual conference in Washington, D.C.

Will you be there? Join us for lunch on Friday, or breakfast Saturday.

Hi All,
The CTC VISTA Project is committed to supporting community networking and organizing projects again in the coming year. If you're interested, don't hesitate to contact me with questions. Regards, Paul

The CTC VISTA Project is pleased to announce that we are being renewed for a 7th consecutive year, in recognition of our excellent work as the most popular project in the entire AmeriCorps online recruitment system.

We anticipate being able to place 50 AmeriCorps*VISTA members in community technology centers and a wide range of nonprofit organizations across the country that are using and seek to use information and communications technology in supporting low-income communities and the groups that work with them. While the majority of these placements will take place at the end of AUGUST, we anticipate that we will be able to place a small group in JUNE, and want to let you know about this immediately, since finalized organizational applications for these placements are due in mid-APRIL.

As for a dialogue on supporting those efforts we collectively value, I am looking forward to an ongoing collective exploration of sustaining the institutions and innovations in our field.

It is certainly a challenge to break frame and offer a new way of collaborating, and finding means of supporting the effort.

In our field we're actually at the cutting edge of human organization, and we'd do well to recognize that and build on those strengths, as opposed to operating under a mindset of scarcity. We live in a world of plenty, yet despite that people and organizations go without and cannot meet their needs.