Homelessness and the web

[Rod Clark]

Anitra Freeman wrote:

> ... To go to a function at Speakeasy, to go ask for help at
> Speakeasy, to use the facilities at Speakeasy, was a few
> minutes walk.  To go to SCN meetings, volunteer activities or
> training sedssions ewas usually a long busride.
> 
> ... as a cyber-cafe, almost any time you are online there are
> people around you who can help you and answer your questions
> -- not just staff, but the person at the next terminal over is
> usually willing to help if you don't make yourself a complete
> pest.  This is the atmosphere that SCN is trying to create
> with its community computing center, and it works, very well. 

Maybe after Jim's Monday drop-in SCN help center gets
established, it could be expanded so that one of SCN's many
volunteers could be there (or somewhere that wouldn't mind
having SCN "invade" it on a regular basis) every weekday
evening from, say, 7-9 PM and maybe 1-4 PM on Saturdays and 
Sundays. 

   There must be a dozens of volunteers who put in an appearance
for a couple of hours a week, or every other week, or once a
month or so. And there are lots of information providers and
volunteers who could pick things up much faster in that
environment, where people could answer three dozen questions in
the course of a conversation, with the needed resources easily
at hand. Once a month is OK. Once a week is OK. But knowing that 
it's there every day is a whole different and better situation. 

Rod
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