[Advisors] Thought I'd share

Tue Mar 4 13:14:22 PST 2014

Love the idea.
Conferences are expensive...gone are the days where the Feds and Province came in with funding.  John Webb would love to wait until the night before the conference when all the planners went out to dinner to hand over a 20K cheque to help the conference :)    Special times.   Technical support was covered by Industry Canada and it was easy to host the event.   I was one of the founders of BC 3 and it was PCNA and BC3 that put together that first John Webb Award that he was able to give to Arvo.  It is an awesome award but the statue itself is pretty ugly - we actually ran out of time and Phillip Djwa had to run down to a trophy shop near his office :)  I am happy it is with Mae.  So converting this to some kind of "national and virtual" acknowledgement would be great I think.

My .02 cents.

Bev

From: James Van Leeuwen [mailto:jvl at ventus.ca]
Sent: March 4, 2014 1:06 PM
To: Bev Collins
Cc: advisors at tc.ca
Subject: Re: [Advisors] Thought I'd share

That's a compelling idea Bev.

I own the domain bestofbroadband.com<http://bestofbroadband.com>.

BOBB is the acronym for Best of Broadband, and I own bobb.ca<http://bobb.ca> as well.

I would be happy to hand over both domains to TC or any other 'social' enterprise that took on an initiative like this.

Could be a great idea for showcasing broadband-related initiatives across Canada.

Could also be a monthly or semi-monthy newsletter (call it BOBB's Your Uncle), and who knows what else.

Oh wait... imagine two core programs called Best of Broadband and Digital User Guide (BOBB & DUG).

(stop me before I slay again)

These ideas align with the idea discussed in the last AGM of shifting the TC mandate to community capacity building.

More food for thought...

James

On Mar 4, 2014, at 1:47 PM, Bev Collins <bev at pcna.ca<mailto:bev at pcna.ca>> wrote:

Take the John Webb Community Champions Award and make it National.   So happy Gary Shearman was the last recipient :)

Bev

From: James Van Leeuwen [mailto:jvl at ventus.ca]
Sent: March 4, 2014 12:45 PM
To: Bev Collins
Cc: advisors at tc.ca<mailto:advisors at tc.ca>
Subject: Re: [Advisors] Thought I'd share

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<mailto: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!!

Bev

From: James Van Leeuwen [mailto:jvl at ventus.ca]
Sent: March 4, 2014 12:38 PM
To: Bev Collins
Cc: advisors at tc.ca<mailto:advisors at tc.ca>
Subject: Re: [Advisors] Thought I'd share

>From my FaceBook page.

Good luck to your son, Bev... great story.

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.

Barry and his brother started developing computer games at home in their bedrooms when they were only 6 and 8 years old.

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.

Barry's mother Bev Collins was a driving force behind the PRCN as well as the Pacific Community Network Association.

This is what community broadband is all about, and it's people like Bev Collins who make it possible.

<link to campaign>

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On Mar 4, 2014, at 12:06 PM, Bev Collins <bev at pcna.ca<mailto:bev at pcna.ca>> wrote:

Hi everyone,

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1763303301/ashen-rift-a-man-and-his-dog?ref=live

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.

Anyway - take a look at Barry's kickstarter campaign  - feel free to support!

Bev

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1763303301/ashen-rift-a-man-and-his-dog?ref=live

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