The files in this area are from the 1993 IDEAS Festival in Telluride,
Colorado.

The IDEAS Festival is a yearly event run by the Telluride Institute.

The 1993 IDEAS Festival focused on Tele-Community.

The Town of Telluride, CO is a small rural town with an unusual amount of
cultural traffic - music festivals, art, theatre etc.  The folks in elluride
are very concerned about growth,a nd one of the schemes that has come up is to
build a rich information infrastructure that wl link people in the town and
surrounding region with each other and with the rest of the world, enabling
economic and cultural growth to take place without suburban sprawl.

Telluride has already taken some first steps towards the creation of the
Telluride InfoZone: a grant from Apple computer's Library of Tomarrow project
has provided a number of Macintoshes, and an arrangement with Colorado
Supernet has provide local dial-up Internet connectivity.  Plans are in the
works for a local community tele-conferencing system, and various information
services.

The Telluride Institute can be reached via e-mail at:   tellinst@csn.org

During the weekend of the '93 IDEAS Fest (July 23-25) people from all over the
USA participated in a series of discussion groups on many different aspects of
"Tele-Community".  Almost all of the discussion groups were proposed and led
by participants - there were also 2 pre-planned plenary sessions each day.

Each discussion group provided a note-taker, and the notes from each group
were uploaded into an online conference on The WELL, where others not at the
Ideas Festival could add their own comments.  It is those discussions topics
from the WELL's Telluride Online conference that comprise the material in this
part of the WELL gopherspace.

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