Technology Committee
5/18/2002

The technology committee has been working (as has the school, of course) without the benefit of a technology coordinator at the school this year. We have appreciated Irving Treadway’s work, and Dan Treadway’s help during his visits to the school.

QuakerNet continues as an ongoing project of the committee. QuakerNet was started as a piece of the Long Range Plan to improve communication between the Yearly Meeting and friends of the school, and the school. This year, as every year since QuakerNet was started, the complete Yearly Meeting minutes have been placed on the web site. At this past summer’s Yearly Meeting sessions, the Printing Committee’s name was changed to Publication Committee and I was added to the committee because of my role as “webmaster”. Also during those sessions, I met with the Discipline revision committee to discuss ways proposed revisions could be discussed both amongst that committee’s members, and once a more final form was ready, among the Yearly Meeting’s members by using a web site. Further discussions related to that have occurred during the year and I think we are close to implementing the first phase of that. Monthly meeting activities and newsletters are posted, including, for example, the opening of the Ames Friends Meeting.

Dan Treadway’s ongoing efforts to publicize the Hey for Forty barn dances at the school have also been included on QuakerNet.

We have been particularly interested in providing information about the school on QuakerNet. Besides a link to the school’s web site, the results of the summer survey and the announcement of this summer’s Family Camp are on QuakerNet.

We have also provided announcements from Friend’s organizations, and in fact recently had direct communication with FCNL regarding permission to re-publicize some of their material on QuakerNet, so they are also familiar with our efforts now.


Also, to make the Long Range Plan implementation documentation more up to date, and hopefully to engage others more in the plan, a web site was created that allows users who know the password to describe what they have done for implementation. At this school committee meeting you may be discussing how to control how that editing occurs.

On behalf of the technology committee.
Jeff Kisling