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The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.

Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
Jim Rohn

Openings

Of course it is taking longer than some may expect, but that's because my only real talent in life is procrastination.

Spring 2002

Host a few prototype meetings as trial runs and to increase exposure among the community.

Start the partner building efforts among other organizations.

A group of new contacts came together via Idealist.Org on the South Side.

Summer 2002

Advance advertising and public relations campaigns.

Fall 2002

Start with a budding slate of activities in the fall of 2002.

The mission statement for the PERCs were crafted.

Winter 2003

Progress on the Youth and Recreation Task force for Pittsburgh Interfaith Impact Network took center statge.

Presentations to South Side Slopes Neighborhood Assn about Neville Ice Rink's reopening began, then shifted to Dorm.CLOH.Org.

Instigation and aggitation for the Pittsburgh Youth Technology Summit started in earnest as Diane Durand, marketing director at AlphaChimp Studios, offers to be a co-chair for the planning and the event.

Spring 2003

CLOH.Org is much like a digital UCSUR could have been after conception and before its birth -- but in modern times. Community Learing Outreach Hub -- an open-source aggitation and instigation endeavor that cares less about academic props and more about our shared digital landscape.

Summer 2003

Letter delivered so as to introduce and join the Wireless Neighborhood Coop.

To Do

Extensive projections are at ToDo.CLOH.Org and as part of the business plans at HQ.CLOH.Org

Timeline Overviews

Corporate executives can pillaging and move from company to company in the time of a month. New products, new brands, new technologies can happen overnight. New stars emerge with new trends and people can jump ship with or without golden parachutes and change jobs with two weeks notice. In one day, the Penguins can trade a bulk of their better players. The pace of the corporate time line is fast and furious.

Meanwhile, in the world of small business managers, plans that address five or more years into the future are necessary. Employees need to grow into positions and equipment needs to be financed for years.

Then comes citizens, voters, home-owners and parents of children. We, the people, need to act now on our plans that will bear fruit ten years into the future. Down the road can mean after this generation grows up.

The kids that are 15-year olds today are going to be the ones that need to work and reside in our neighborhoods as 25 year olds and 35 year olds. We need to plan for these people because it is our duty to have a long-term outlook.

The outlook for the citizens is much unlike that of a corporation. Citizens get to work for years on a plan. And, citizens can be lucky and fortunate to do so.