• Paul is no longer at Middlesex Shelter. Pathfinders will be conducting computer training component
• New Beginnings will be offering a Budgeting Seminar in 3 parts (see calendar section on the Consortium website)
• Center for Family, Work and Community will be hosting Ken Kowoski from LINCT to speak on community recycling projects
• Meeting for those organizations sponsoring a VISTA will be on August 10^th in Boston at 10 Causway Street - Rm 473 in the Fleet Center - All host organizations should send a representative
• LTC's new member orientation will be August 2^nd, 1-4pm or 6-9pm
• Somerville Art Beat featuring Faces of Tomorrow - a youth digital art project - weekend of July 22^nd
• Trellix will be offering free web page design workshops in their Waltham offices. Interested persons should email Felicia at consortium@ltc.org

• Programs center around personal goal setting and are open to the general public
• Basic computer training, self-paced tutorials w/ facilitation. Also have tutorials
• This program is especially good at skill development but weak in concept building. Have begun to over short seminars to deal with this area.
• Self-paced program developed to accommodate varied schedules
• Module areas focus on Budgeting, Back-to-school, home-buying, and job search (for the most part)
• Public access hours are 7 days a week (M-Th 9-9, Fri 9-5, Sa 10-5 and Su 1-9)
• Help folks with action plans and finding resources

Discussions on a number of topics occurred here:

• New open access challenges on the policy level
• Digital Divide issues that stretched beyond tools and covered connectivity and content divides
• Art and project-based education
• Recylcling programs
• Learning objectives

• DoE partners almost ready to sign contracts. Equipment purchasing and setup should occur during August. With programs starting in the Fall
• VISTA host agencies have submitted job descriptions and Felicia is collecting applications from individuals. The Consortium will have one overall-VISTA to assist with tech planning and work with Eduardo on a wide area network. If we can not recruit enough VISTAs we will look to shopping folks around.

• Recycling (current interest from Dan Toomey, Gregg Croteau, Samkhan Khoen and others) - Dan Toomey acting organizer
• Community information (current interest from Anthon Gunawan, Maryellen Maclaney, Jane Benfrey and others) - Maryellen acting organizer
• Education and Training (current interest form Kevin Mullen, Frank Allaby, Felicia Sullivan, and others) - Kevin Mullen acting organizer
• Technology Planning and Implementatino (current interest from Eduardo Czarnobai, Dan MacNeil, and others) - Eduardo Czarnobai organizer
• If you are interested in participating in a working group, contact the organizer. Organizers should feel free to convene informal meetings on a regular basis.

Tour of New Beginnings

Next Meetings

• Meetings are 3^rd Thursday of every month
• August17 ^th (House of Hope - 12 Merrimack Street.)