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  • From: Tom Poe <tompoe AT studioforrecording.org>
  • To: community_studios AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Community_studios] Fostering Resilient Communities
  • Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 00:07:50 -0500

Suggestion for reflection is offered. The placement of a low-end PC loaded with state-of-the-art audio and video software in a community offers a dramatic leap towards increased resiliency within a community. This can be easily demonstrated through a quick reminder of what such a computer can produce:
* high quality CDs that rival anything produced by expensive recording studios
* high quality videos that rival anything produced by expensive tv and radio broadcast network studios
* high quality films that rival anything produced by expensive film studios

Combining a low-end PC with state-of-the-art audio and video software that is freely available from Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, enables even the poorest communities, the inner-city neighborhoods, villages in Third World countries, to actively participate in projects designed to enhance the promotion of the "development and design of resilient communities that are tolerant and safe and that exercise creative stewardship of the built and natural environments."

The cost of entry, as can be seen from the description of the computer above, is negligible. With such a computer, a community is instantly transformed into one that contains major recording studios capability enabling users to prepare and communicate and distribute the materials necessary to carry out creative stewardship of their built and natural environments. Technical support and training is available, free of charge, regardless of the location of the neighborhood or community.

Would there be other considerations not mentioned that would prevent the successful promotion of these computers?
Tom
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  • [Community_studios] Fostering Resilient Communities, Tom Poe, 10/17/2005

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