[Advisors] Thought I'd share

[James Van Leeuwen]

I wish we could celebrate all the other Bev Collins out there. 

It occurs to me that this might be another worthwhile thing for TC to take on under a revised mandate.

Celebrate the success of community broadband initiatives and the people behind them.


Here's another great success story (see the comments that follow the article):

http://wordsbynowak.com/2014/03/04/digital-divide/


James




On Mar 4, 2014, at 1:40 PM, Bev Collins <bev at pcna.ca> wrote:

> Wow – thanks James.   This kind of thing reminds me of why we do all this and brings back that “feels good” feeling!!
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> Bev
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> From: James Van Leeuwen [mailto:jvl at ventus.ca] 
> Sent: March 4, 2014 12:38 PM
> To: Bev Collins
> Cc: advisors at tc.ca
> Subject: Re: [Advisors] Thought I'd share
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> From my FaceBook page.
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> Good luck to your son, Bev... great story.
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> JvL
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> I am pleased to be a backer of this Kickstarter campaign from Barry Collins of Powell River BC, who has become a world-class game developer. 
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> Barry and his brother started developing computer games at home in their bedrooms when they were only 6 and 8 years old.
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> An important contributor to their success was the Powell River Community Network, a wireless network that leaders in their community built to bring better Internet access to the whole community. 
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> Barry's mother Bev Collins was a driving force behind the PRCN as well as the Pacific Community Network Association.
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> This is what community broadband is all about, and it's people like Bev Collins who make it possible.
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> <link to campaign>
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> On Mar 4, 2014, at 12:06 PM, Bev Collins <bev at pcna.ca> wrote:
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> Hi everyone,
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> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1763303301/ashen-rift-a-man-and-his-dog?ref=live
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> Some of you may know that way back when the Powell River Community Network was started and my two sons were 6 and 8 years old they started designing video games.  This pursuit has taken them to Malaysia to present their community project at the GK3 a few years ago.  We considered them a success story, and Michael Gurstein wrote about them in a HRSDC report 13 plus years ago.  They’ve worked on some of the world’s top games as contractors and now Barry is finally taking the time to work on his own.   I have always considered them a community networking success story because they are self-taught and worked out of their bedrooms.  So it was our idea to enable youth to do the same thing from where-ever they were in the world. 
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> Anyway – take a look at Barry’s kickstarter campaign  - feel free to support!
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> Bev
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> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1763303301/ashen-rift-a-man-and-his-dog?ref=live
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