SCN: SCNA general meeting 6/9.

[Ken Gillgren]

Thanks for the update, JJ, I was hoping to attend but had a last-minute 
project deadline I had cover during that time.

I am still interested in keeping up with SCN and exploring options for 
its future.

I don't think the issue is so much in the area of technical innovation 
or marketable services as it is in addressing the persistent gap in 
access and effective use of current/emerging technologies to undergird 
broader and more effective civic engagement by the traditionally 
disenfranchised, increasingly including immigrant and refugee communities.

I think there are needs that something like SCN could position itself to 
address at a lower scale, with greater impact, but probably not in its 
current form/structure. And I have no sense of legacy support issues, 
that is, SCN's stated or assumed obligations to its legacy constituents, 
however many that includes.

Just thinkin...

Thanks,

Ken Gillgren

On 6/10/2012 11:02 AM, J. Johnson wrote:
> There were eventually 15 people at the SCNA meeting, some old-hands (Joel,
> Alan, Randy, Doug Schuler, Jean Buskin, etc.), some who "want to help".
> The bottom line: Randy has some new hardware on which he has setup
> Wikimedia and some blogging software, demonstrating that they could be
> made available on SCN.  Particular ramifications don't seem to have been
> considered, hadn't been discussed by the time I left (15:15).  One person
> did ask what the library thinks about this; the library hasn't been asked.
> If bandwidth requirements (supplied through the library) exploded Joel
> thinks it would be practicable to rent rack-space somewhere.
>
> Various interesting comments.  At the start Joel said the focus was on
> finding "new services more attractive to the public ... or a phased plan
> for shutting the operation down." No follow-up on that last option. (Also:
> "We can come up with leadng [?] ideas just as well as anyone else....")
>
> The past wasn't under consideration.  Alan: "Going over history not as
> useful as going ahead...."  (Unless, of course you want to learn from it.)
>
> Randy said there were three or four new e-mail accounts in the last year;
> someone else (Alan?) said it was more like a dozen. As to the number of
> SCNA members, based on those paying dues in the past year, Joel said
> "about ten".
>
> Doug made a very pertinent comment: "There has to be some kind of social
> innovation that sells the project."  That is, just having some technology
> is not enough.  (But not discussed.)
>
> Various other chit-chat, but these are the highlights.  Unless things got
> going hot and furious after I left you didn't miss much not attending.
>
> === JJohnson =====================================================
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