Fascinating to see a blog posted by the powerful George Soros - this designed to keep President Bush from being reelected - shows the lenghts to which this technology is being used by the world's most renowned people

About the Collection...

It is definitely worth trying out Skype - a free application to access their VoIP service and reach over a million other Skype users for free telephone calling over the Internet - anywhere in the world - free, fast, easy, and excellent call quality - Skype site and download here

Project of Harvard Law School exploring e-education, Internet law, and community

CoolCleveland current weekly edition - worth subscribing to their e-newsletter - sent out Wednesdays

Thorough coverage of Cleveland area business news and PR - worth subscribing to e-updates

Here is blog from all the employees of Sun Microsystems, from CEO on down, and feeds to their individual blogs - see how the Java people use the technology and think

Home of the Drupal open source project user to build REALNEO

In the beginning there was no Slashdot. Bored and confused geeks would
scribble "First Post" in the sand. Grits were strictly for consumption
and there wasn't a place to get nerd oriented news. Then in September

San Francisco Chronicle, for excellent high tech news and editorial from the heart of it all

Siliconvalley.com is an excellent source for insider technology news

2004
Medical Innovation Summit New Technologies, New
Therapies, New Economics joins together more than 800 industry
leaders: top CEOs and clinicians will provide an overview and discuss
highlights of new technologies, therapies and related economics on Mon 10/18 at 4PM, with more events
taking place later in the day, through 10/20. Seats are limited, please
register at 800-223-2273 ext. 45322. InterContinental Hotel and MBNA Conference
Center on the main campus of The Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Ave.

Cost $799

Location

Working
Summit on Poverty II On 9/3 over 170 community leaders gathered at the convention center to
grapple with issues that lead to Cleveland being named the most impoverished
city in the nation. The second round will take place this Fri 10/15 from 9-11AM. Six community
action teams organized in areas like early childhood/preschool; school-age; job
creation and retention; housing; and technical/advocacy. Are you working in any
of these areas? Would you like to add your energy and enthusiasm to creating
prosperity in the region? The meeting is opening to the public. It'll be cool
for anyone to attend. The Public Auditorium in the Convention Center, 500
Lakeside Ave E.

Location

Making Change: Strategic Frameworks for our Global Economy 

Location

Cleveland
Homecoming Stories Join radio show hosts Melissa Barber and Bob Soroky for a round table
discussion on why folks who've moved away choose to move back to Cleveland.
They'll speak from experience as they lived three years in the New York City
metropolitan area. Joining them in the studio will be Laura and Dale Huffman,
featured in the September 13th issue of Crain's
Cleveland Business; both have recently returned to Cleveland from
San Diego. Listeners will be invited to share their "moving"
experiences as well. Tune in to News Talk 1420 WHK this Sat 10/16 from Noon to 1PM

Location

Norm, you've currently placed everything under a single taxonomy. I noticed  that you've been adding a lot of events labeled as "Tuesdays@REI". It's fine to label them in the title, but it would make it even easier to select them all by creating an events vocabulary that includes a "Tuesdays@REI" term.

Ohio City After Dark

an annual *rockin' party* to benefit

Location

Ryze
Cleveland Business Networking Mixer - 20+ RSVPs already

Wed Oct 20,
2004 6:00 pm

Location

For every Cleveland Browns home game, Cleveland IT company Boundless Flight hosts a spectacular tailgate party - large tent, game on TV, boundless good food, beverages and cheer... win or lose... starts with breakfast at 9AM - drawing for a pair of free tickets at 12PM - game starts at 1 PM - party runs through game (and there's even a port-a-let)

Boundless Flight CEO Gary Baney welcomes all local IT entrepreneurs (as well as anyone who stumbles by) to join in the celebration. To locate - look for a big tent and red SUV under a 15' high Boundless Flight banner, in the parking lot at the north end of W10th, where it meets Front Street on the East Bank of the Flats - the party is in the NE corner of this lot, right by the railroad tracks and before you go up the hill toward the stadium - see attached PDF flier for more details - easier to find than it may sound - call Gary at 440-610-3683 or Don at 216-374-1091

Location

Business Plan Clinic
Featured Speaker: John Renner, SBA

Place:  Midtown Innovative Center
Suite 201, 4415 Euclid
Ave., Cleveland, OH 44103

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Time: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Cost To Attend: Free

Contact Phone: 216-774-2282

Location

NEOSA Tech Thursday - Last Meeting for 2004

<>The Winking Lizard Tavern
6901 Rockside Road, Independence

5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. - Free - NEOSA

The I-77 Link. At this Special NeTT we will be inviting the Akron
Canton Chapter of NEOSA to join us on the THIRD Thursday in October at
the Winking Lizard in Independence. No need to register, it is free to
attend, and it is open to anyone wishing to get connected to the IT
community.

http://www.neosa.org/events/list.asp?Event_Id=79

Location

I've posted about this on my Bryght blog, but also wanted to mention it here.

The Open Source Development and Documentation Project (OSDDP for short) is doing some interesting work in combining open source methodologies and tools to connect students in Purdue's Professional Writing program with the open source community.

Of interest will be their introductory press release:

In a new initiative to foster what Dr. David Blakesley calls "networked
learning," Purdue University students interact with new people and new
technologies to provide valuable open source
documentation. Students in a variety of English courses in the
Professional Writing major will study open source software, talk to its
designers and users, use the software themselves, then write and test
user documentation, help organizations promote their software in the
wider community, and even develop action plans for deploying such
software in new business and academic ventures.

A Flash-based audio and video conferencing system that works in any browser with Flash 7 installed.

Might be interesting technology to include as part of a virtual meeting system.

As always happens at REI, discussion quickly moved to local economic development and entrepreneurship issues and concerns - which allowed for discussion about REALNEO among a small and diverse group of community leaders.