Full Circle Associates

On April 1st, the Well will begin it's 20th year. As part of the community celebration, Howard Rheingold, Cliff Figallo and friends are looking back in the Well's public view conference, Inkwell.view. For those who love a good community story, click into Engaged: Conference: inkwell.vue. Here is a snippet to whet your appetite for this conversation which will continue for the next two weeks.

Howard writes:

"The ghosts have been awakened. Just starting to write about this has conjured spirits in my mind. Thoughts of dhawk, casey, mandel, and rab are entering my mind, seemingly unbidden, as I go about my other tasks. As so many people testified at his memorial, dhawk had this quiet way of taking newcomers under his wing and showing us the ropes. I know that Cliff has written about this before -- the geekiness of PicoSpan and Unix made it necessary for old-timers to teach newcomers the ropes. And that turned out to be important. Casey used to smack me around so much about the 'community' business. Over the years, I've come to agree with much of what she was saying -- and yet, she was also one of the secret sharers who took so many newcomers under her wing. And toward the end, she was certainly a beneficiary of quiet community outreach."