SCN: suggestion for SCNA

[jmabel]

JJ, I still think that there is a good use for a non-profit, non-commercial,
locally oriented space on the Internet. I also think that insofar as it can be
maintained and even expanded, the computer giveaway program remains useful.
Certainly the site I continue to maintain on SCN - the Crisis Resource Directory
- remains as useful as ever, and no one else is providing an equivalent.

I have tremendous doubt of the continuing value of SCN's very limited free
dialup in an age where (among other things) anyone can go to the library and get
90 minutes of free time on a reasonably modern browser.

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Joe Mabel

On Sat, 9 Jul 2011, J. Johnson wrote:

> On Fri, 8 Jul 2011, Doug Schuler wrote:
>
> > [....]
> > I'm willing to volunteer to be one of the new board members. I have no
> > particular agenda except to encourage SCN to serve its original
> > principles and to advance its technological base to some degree. How
> > many volunteers do we need?
> >
>
> Have you read the principles lately?  They are quixotic at best, and
> largely irrelevant.  It is useful to recall their context, when the World
> Wide Web was still in its infancy, and the up and coming services on the
> Internet were Gopher (anyone recall what that was--without looking it up?)
> and WAIS: Wide Area Information Service.  (Hey, let's have a list of all
> the files available on local computers!)
>
> The principles are heavy on commitment to community, democracy, and the
> future, but rather light on how these commitments are to be served.
> ("[P]rovide access to databases and other services"; also "electronic
> town halls ... or electronic encyclopedias for enhanced access to
> information."  Wow.)  Nothing on how these services are to be provided.
>
> SCN's problems are not simply that the Directors went AWOL, but that
> various problems were not resolved.  I think installing new Directors is a
> good start, but won't get far unless they _do_ have an agenda -- of what
> to fix.
>
> === JJohnson =====================================================
>
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