SCN: Re: Kiosks

[emailer1]

Interesting Five-Year Plan.  Apparently, the item worth mentioning for the
next five years is the concept of information kiosks.  I would have hoped
that accomplishments of other free nets such as:  (1) PPP capability;  (2)
much better level of financial support; and (3) paid staff would be higher
on the list.

One item seemed intriguing:

--we **could** get wildly successful and be able to separate from
> the library...

If improved service required separation from the limitations imposed by the
library, there might have to be some focussed discussion and planning, such
as very involved communications with some of the free nets that have
upgraded their service and funding.

Perhaps that sort of planning will show up on this imminent "five-year
plan."

----- Original Message -----
From: Locke, Ti <tlocke at kcts.org>
To: <scna-board at scn.org>; Joe Mabel <jmabel at speakeasy.org>
Cc: J. Johnson <jj at scn.org>; <scn at scn.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 1:20 PM
Subject: SCN: Kiosks


> Well then...it just so happens that I'm hacking my way through a five-year
> paln for SCN. In it's current and cumbersome first draft, the plan
> encompasses just about everything anyone has ever said that SCN should
> do...dating back to 1994, when my involvement with SCN started. (I was
> cleaning my files and discovered a cache of newsgroup printouts/emails,
> etc...)
>
> Certain themes have continued through the years and information kiosks is
> one...I used to create these in another life, so I'm pretty clear on the
> costs, maintenance, etc.
>
> Feel free to fire off any ideas y'all have to me, just remember that there
> are two caveats per what SCN can and cannot do.
>
> #1 is our relationship to the Seattle Public Library
> --we cannot charge for our services;
> --our bandwidth, as it were, is limited; and
> --we **could** get wildly successful and be able to separate from
> the library...
>
> #2 is that our primary function as a 501(c)3 is education.
>
> Everything flows from these two points. I'm a grantwriter and have had to
> let numerous opportunities slide by while we pulled all the pieces
together
> to have a web site that was at least navigable. That means back of the the
> shop and front: hardware, software AND reorganizing the "look" of the SCN
> site. The good news is that we're getting there...
>
>
> Ti Locke
> KCTS Television
> 401 Mercer; Seattle, WA 98109
> Direct: 206/443-4860  Fax: 206/443-6691
> tlocke at kcts.org
>
>
>
>
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