Welcome and introductions

Hello!

It's great to see people joining the group. It would be great to get to know a little bit more about everyone. Maybe a little about what you are up to, your dreams and visions, and what drew you to this group and to Evolver. Whatever you would like to share about yourself really.

I myself am a return student after a 20 year break. I had been reading Reality Sandwich and looked forward to the social network that they kept saying was in the works. I had signed up right away for the newsletters and the alert for when the social network came online.

When it did come online a couple months ago, I got excited and checked it all out. I noticed that there was not a group yet for Santa Fe, so I started one. This was over a weekend and I got impatient for the group to go online/public, it had to be approved. On Monday I received a congratulatory email, along with several other people, that I had applied to be a regional coordinator. My eyes widened and I hesitated, I had no idea that by creating a Santa Fe group I was applying to be a regional coordinator, it’s a good thing too or else I wouldn’t have created it and I wouldn’t be the regional coordinator for Santa Fe right now.

After the hesitation, I thought back to how doing this would give me the push to do what I have been talking about, dreaming of and wishing someone else would do. I am also stoked to be able to be a part of something that fits with what I am studying at school. Now is my chance to put what I and many others would like to see, into action. So I filled out the application and did the phone interview. The first event will be June 17th, likely small, but that was my plan.

Out of this event I hope to get a feel for what to do for the next event and to get the buzz out. I invited some people who might be interested in participating in organizing events and hopefully people from the community will show up and participate too. I am thinking of this event as an awareness raising event and an organizing for the next event.

I am confident that this will take off here in Santa Fe and that each neighborhood or area of town will have sub-regions, with their own events. I can see us pooling together to accomplish tasks like community gardens and disaster preparedness, especially in the poorer neighborhoods. I sense good things coming from this.

I hope you will participate in anyway you see fit!

Introduce yourself and feel free to use this group as you need, create a discussion or a group blog and let us know what’s happening with you.

Thank you!
D. McCutcheon