What started off as a potluck celebration at Stone Soup Community Center last Sunday evening developed into an incredible and vibrant planning session.
We've spawned 5 subcommittees who will be concentrating on various aspects of bringing our radio station to the air.
Here's the list of subcommittees:
1) Content Development - Develop our Website, Make an Internet Stream, Plan our Content for the Airways
2) Studio - Find Us a Place to Live Now, Help us Develop a Longterm Studio Solution (Ester Library?), and Build Us the Thing
3) Engineering and Application - Get Us The License
4) Fundraising/Publicity/Outreach - Money, People...Money, People
5) Training - Train Us to Run a Radio Station, Train Others to Run a Radio Station
Are you interested in being on any of these subcommittees? Go ahead, make history. Email us and tell us where you want to make a difference: forboard@bluewiretek.com
Deirdre Helfferich said,
November 27th, 2007 at 09:03 PM
Good to hear this, Jenn. I heard the newscast on KUAC this morning; I’m glad they’re finally treating the radio station like news. A note, however: the Ester library isn’t a public library (I don’t know if this was your error or KUAC’s; I sent them a note on this already). It’s a nonprofit membership library; this may make a difference in your fundraising approach. The final design is still pending….
Deirdre Helfferich said,
November 29th, 2007 at 12:21 AM
PS: I received three replies from KUAC on my correction: from the person generally answering the e-mail, from the reporter, and from Gretchen Gordon, director of development & outreach. I also received two calls from librarians in Ester saying, in essence, “WHAAAT?” in regard to the done-deal description of FOR being housed in the library. It’s not that anybody objects to the idea, it’s just that it seems terribly premature to announce it this way in a newscast since we don’t have a building yet and FOR isn’t yet licensed. So I’m glad I got the kind of response I did from KUAC.
Which brings up another question: will any FOR supporters be able to help us with such things as obtaining a grant, or the actual building? We should coordinate these things from the get-go if we’re going to try to accomodate the station.