About the La Plaza Section of the WELLgopher

I first met the people behind Taos' La Plaza Foundation at the
Telluride Ideas Festival, where the Telluride IdeaZone/Civic Net was
being discussed.  Most of the attendees were either locals or
well-known people in network circles.  But the trio from Taos --
Patrick Finn, Richard Bryant, and Spiros Antonopoulos -- materialized
out of nowhere.  And they returned home with a passionate desire to get
a civic network up and running in a town where there was no prior
connectivity; no PC Pursuit dial-ins, no public UNIX sites, no Fido
boards, nothing.

Since July 1993, they've managed to incorporate, create liaisons with
the University of New Mexico and local business and government, and
begin fundraising.  They've agreed to make some of their working papers
available here for those attempting to develop their own civic nets.
They encourage you to take freely anything you need, as much of what
they've used to create these materials originated on the nets.

For more information about La Plaza de Taos, contact patrickf@csn.org

                		       --Eric Theise/verve@well.sf.ca.us
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