President's Report
Visit us at http://intermix.org, where our InterMix Community Software for the Web is on debut. We'll stir the mix and learn where we agree and disagree. There will be cash prizes for winning entries. Nothing big -- maybe twenty dollars for the most valuable message each month, and ten dollar beauty prizes for the most interesting and controversial messages, but we can't miss having some fun, so don't be shy. A special "Roll your Own" section let's you set up your own discussion group - - the more trivial, the better.
On the serious side, we will be discussing such major world topics as: Economy/Ecology, the Web, Religious Affairs, Art, Human Consciousness, nonviolence, NGO's, and InterMix itself. We hope to sponsor a green/libertarian dialogue because we see these two trends as fruitful opposites, with the Greens wanting to rein in and control the global plunge while the Libertarians are insisting on letting the flow take us where it will. Non- violence is the ingredient that makes the mix work.
Our first priority is getting InterMix 1.0 out the door. By November we should have the beta available for download and in January we go gold. Version 1.0 will be very competitive Bulletin Board Software for the web, and it will be free (donation requested).
By the first quarter of 1998 we will be setting up our Sharing L.A. hub and our L.A. Women's Voice hub. Sharing L.A. will be a neighborhood by neighborhood online community for L.A. County. Women's Voice should redress the expected male predominance on the other hubs. A "hub", btw, is easily moved from one computer to another. If you would like to have a hub of your own, please write to rogereaton@earthlink.net. We can get you started, gratis, and later on you can move the hub to your own site.
Our big problem is controlling the uncontrollable internet, where censorship is very much a nono. We want to involve kids in the discussion groups, so just how are we going to suffer the inevitable XXX topic? Join in to see your host, that's me, booting and encrypting those interesting messages. I have a plan.
Read on and learn which came first, the chicken or the egg. Hear me, if you have ears: we are that egg, but keep it quiet! There are tyrannosaurs in the neighborhood.
Roger Eaton
President
Collective Communication, Inc.