<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">I wish we could celebrate all the other Bev Collins out there. <div><br></div><div>It occurs to me that this might be another worthwhile thing for TC to take on under a revised mandate.</div><div><br><div>Celebrate the success of community broadband initiatives and the people behind them.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Here's another great success story (see the comments that follow the article):</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://wordsbynowak.com/2014/03/04/digital-divide/">http://wordsbynowak.com/2014/03/04/digital-divide/</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>James</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 4, 2014, at 1:40 PM, Bev Collins <<a href="mailto:bev@pcna.ca">bev@pcna.ca</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-CA" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Wow – thanks James. This kind of thing reminds me of why we do all this and brings back that “feels good” feeling!!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Bev<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>James Van Leeuwen [<a href="mailto:jvl@ventus.ca" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">mailto:jvl@ventus.ca</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>March 4, 2014 12:38 PM<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Bev Collins<br><b>Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:advisors@tc.ca" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">advisors@tc.ca</a><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Advisors] Thought I'd share<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: rgb(55, 64, 78); background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">From my FaceBook page.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: rgb(55, 64, 78); background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Good luck to your son, Bev... great story.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: rgb(55, 64, 78); background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">JvL</span><o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">--------------------------------<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: rgb(55, 64, 78); background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">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. </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: rgb(55, 64, 78);"><br><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Barry and his brother started developing computer games at home in their bedrooms when they were <span class="textexposedshow">only 6 and 8 years old.</span><br><br><span class="textexposedshow">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. </span><br><br><span class="textexposedshow">Barry's mother Bev Collins was a driving force behind the PRCN as well as the Pacific Community Network Association.</span><br><br><span class="textexposedshow">This is what community broadband is all about, and it's people like Bev Collins who make it possible.</span></span></span><o:p></o:p></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><link to campaign><o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: rgb(55, 64, 78); background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">-------------------</span><o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">On Mar 4, 2014, at 12:06 PM, Bev Collins <<a href="mailto:bev@pcna.ca" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">bev@pcna.ca</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br><br><o:p></o:p></div><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;"><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Hi everyone,<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1763303301/ashen-rift-a-man-and-his-dog?ref=live" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1763303301/ashen-rift-a-man-and-his-dog?ref=live</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">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. <o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Anyway – take a look at Barry’s kickstarter campaign - feel free to support!<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Bev<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1763303301/ashen-rift-a-man-and-his-dog?ref=live" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1763303301/ashen-rift-a-man-and-his-dog?ref=live</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: ArialMT, serif;">_______________________________________________<br>Advisors mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Advisors@tc.ca" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">Advisors@tc.ca</span></a><br><a href="http://victoria.tc.ca/mailman/listinfo/advisors" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">http://victoria.tc.ca/mailman/listinfo/advisors</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Advisors mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Advisors@tc.ca" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">Advisors@tc.ca</a><br><a href="http://victoria.tc.ca/mailman/listinfo/advisors" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">http://victoria.tc.ca/mailman/listinfo/advisors</a></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>