Learn, teach and do (open BEAM)

BEAM vision

Vision

Rochester ... a community fully engaged in creating a smarter planet where all its members have equitable access to information technology (IT) to attain wellness, prosperity and sustainability.

Mission

Through education, collaboration and IT service projects, we build, enable, activate and model (BEAM) a network of IT skills to help the community.

Steering Committee and Well-wishers

Al Lun, Middle Way Group Consulting, Diversity Council Board Member, Kiwanis Rochester Member
Steve Conners, Ability Building Center (Ability Built Computers)
Eldon Nelson, IEEE member, Professional Engineer, Local Computer Teaching
Kim Sin, Interim President, Cambodian Association Rochester Minnesota (CARM)
Ashok Patel, President of Diversity Council Board, Rotary Club
Steve Courts, the Y Rochester, MN
Colleen Maddox, RCTC, Kiwanis Rochester
Pradeep Nambier, Pexus LLC
Mark Adafin, Global Home Heath Care, Inc
George Thompson, G B Thomson Solutions
Jenny Gile, Y Mentor
Rich Hartmann, Holy Ground Catholic Community

Build and nurture human resources with a passion to learn about technologies

Expand Science Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) capacities.

Utilizing BEAM Education Curriculum and other learning tools to gain awareness, knowledge and skills on the use of technologies such as:

Web programming languages such as PHP
Knowledge and content management systems

Plone and products that run on Plone such as Plomino

Open source vendor cloud platforms, eg. google application engine, IBM's smarter planet initiative
Social media such as face book
Google docs and services integration with Plone or other CMS technologies
Smart app's are based on wiring up cloud-based services and do not have to be monolithic, heavy-weight solutions
Multimedia content production (YouTube, podcasts)
IT Help desk

Enable the team

Enable is about giving the nascent team the tools, access, the right amount of start-up knowledge to get up to speed. Youth icon

Grant access to cloud platform, teamroom to enable immersion and quick time to fun and play
Access to computing platform (local server as well as cloud)

Activate and deploy the team

Activate is about connecting resources to engage in solving real social or commercial problems. It goes beyond the theoretical and the feel-good realm to get into putting the resources to work for real projects. It's the belief that you are what you do and not what you talk about.

Project pipeline
Flexible cost structure including

Sweat equity
Project fit to community considerations
Future impacts

Model respect, openness and sharing

Model openness and service and the habits of win-win and synergies. Adopt the wikipedia/open source community model of openness, service, contribution to a larger good with a conviction that the more we share the more we get back in sustainability, wellness and prosperity. Prosperity can be measured either in financial return or self-actualization of contributor's passion.

It's demonstrating and putting effective habits to work. It's living the "leadership" life that LPG talks about.

Don't wait for superman to appear from somewhere else.

We are it! We Think big, act small, move fast.