Helping McKala put up a wiki for her healing services. An open source wiki with a css skin I did some mods on. She did the pics. After showing her the basics, she’s her own wikidomo, one of the things I love about setting wikis up and showing someone the basic—they’re empowered to update their websites without having to struggle with learning HTML.
Perhaps things will start changing when everyone’s ideas are considered:
Too often in Cleveland’s history, our leaders have sought silver-bullet fixes to Cleveland’s myriad woes. Each initiative, from Gateway to building a Convention Center, is billed as being the unique solution that will magically solve Cleveland’s problems in one fell-swoop. Ideas are proposed behind closed doors, and decisions are frequently made with little community input, and usually even less input from homeless people.
As Mayor Jackson’s interest in taking an unannounced tour of homeless shelters would suggest, we may finally have an administration in this City that is not openly hostile toward us or homeless people, nor do we have an administration eager to ignore the issues and concerns expressed in our paper. Thus, the time is ripe to widen our forum and give those who struggle to survive in this city a chance to propose more ideas to make Cleveland a healthy and stable community.
We want to hear everything: ranging from ideas about new community projects to tearing up all the parking meters or easing vending license fees. We want to hear any idea that could improve Cleveland in any way whatsoever, for specific people, or Cleveland in general…
Check out this one from Chip Bok.
From Hannah:
Beginning on April 10th - - just a few days away - - downtown employees, residents, students and tourists will be able to hop on one of two trolley lines, developed by Greater Cleveland RTA to replace Loop bus service.
The E-Line trolley will link entertainment venues, from the Warehouse District at West Ninth Street, down Euclid Avenue past Playhouse Square to East 21st Street. The B-Line trolley will connect business, circling Superior and Lakeside Avenues between West Sixth and East 12th Streets.
Both lines will operate from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. with 10-minute frequency. If the nostalgic green-and- gold trolleys, complete with cow catchers, wooden rails, and brass bells, don’t put a smile on the face of downtown travelers, the price of riding will. The trolleys are free now through Labor Day…
But I had to pick a theme and turn caching on. The website was way too slow. Thanks for understanding.
From Bill:
So Goldberg is picking me up in a rented minivan in six hours and we’re heading out for the National Summit for Community Wireless Networks in St. Louis, stopping in Columbus to pick up Katie and Robb, two Ohio Community Computing Network Vista volunteers…
Dennis Coughlin on the recent I-Open conference:
What was so exciting was the breadth of experiences, positions, backgrounds of the twenty-four who elected to participate. There were people from Cleveland; Jefferson City, Missouri; Wayne County; all over Cuyahoga County; Nashville, Tennessee; and Indianapolis, Indiana. There were people who work for the City of Cleveland, TVA, Cuyahoga County, various non-profit organizations, the Cleveland Institute of Art, Case Western Reserve University, Myers University, the Cuyahoga County Library.
There were people who are economic development directors, librarians, students, unemployed, non-profit administrators, small farm supporters, network builders, community development leaders, car restorers, technology directors, bio-fuels engineers, agricultural innovators. There were people in suits, people in jeans, and people in skirts.
We got involved in the discussion of first curve versus second curve innovation strategies, quality connected places, building connected networks, building innovation networks, growing regional economies, appreciative networks, authentic engagement, network weaving, collaborative projects.
All of these people came to the table and participated in open conversations building trust, finding common ground, and building new collaborative networks. We developed new ways to help focus our actions leading to bring innovation to our communities…
I hope no one out there was using the Hiperminimalist theme, because I’ve deleted it. I really don’t want to have to manage that many themes. So I’ve got it down to 3.
If you’re reading BFD with IE, please change your theme to Letterhead using the theme switcher. That one appears to load the fastest. Thanks, BillyGoat, for bringing it to my attention. Being a mac owner who uses FireFox, I forget the rest of the world is on XP and IE…
