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A new look and some changes for the CIC site! Some parts of it have been simplified; we're looking to simplify it more. Events are no longer special and difficult to enter; just post them as any ordinary posting. If you have an event that you'd like to share beyond the immediate SI community, there is now a Community Information Corps events group on upcoming.org for doing the detail stuff of tracking locations, times, maps and directions.

Here's a short summary of the CIC seminar on calendars and events.

We decided that this is going to be an every other week on Thursdays at 3pm event in the summer time, and that the next meeting would focus on RSS and syndication.

Roughly in order of appearance, here's what was discussed:

Calendar standards through the years:

• 1996 vCalendar industry consortium standard
• 1998 iCalendar Internet calendar RFC 2445

Monolithic enterprise calendar tools, like … Read more »

The Community Technology Foundation of California Program Officer, Policy
Posted: May 5, 2006

The Community Technology Foundation of California was established in
1998 to improve access for and build the capacity of underserved communities
to understand, design and use information and communications technology for
community transformation. The foundation realizes its commitment through an

I am forwarding this message from Lance Hill, Executive Director, Southern Institute for Education and Research at Tulane University in New Orleans.
Please respond to him directly at (504) 865-6100 or lhill@tulane.edu

"Dear Friends:

So many of us are overwhelmed here in New Orleans by the basic research
tasks necessary to counter the racial injustices of the recovery. T o

This is a particularly interesting combination -

There is a peer-to-peer lending system called Prosper, kind of like eBay for loans. A social entrepreneur has guaranteed a loan to a Ugandan Interent service provider for capital equipment, and is borrowing the money for it on Prosper. The loan right now is at 8% interest and dropping. … Read more »