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I was wondering if anyone could help us create a few communities. Let me tell you what I have in mind.
It just seems to me that we could take a real community and turn it into a virtual one through all the facilities that the web offers us.
For example I did try to get one going with the Gairloch and Loch Maree area of Scotland but it's obvious that this didn't happen. What I tried to do was to profile the area through using old history books of the area. I then managed to get some pictures of the area. You can see this base page at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/gairloch
What I then wanted to do was to get the locals involved and to that end I created a forum for them in here. I hoped that they might take hundreds of pictures of the area on different subjects. Like someone might be interested in flowers so could have taken pictures of every flower in the area and send them in. Should they like hill walking they could take lots of pictures of one walk telling us what we were seeing on the way.
I also hoped some of the locals would talk about their own families and tell us what they did for a living and businesses could profile themselves.
To me it just sounded like a lot of fun but also useful for the community.
And so it seems clear to me that we need foot soldiers on the ground to make any of this happen and so just wondered if anyone in here might find this project to be of interest?
I would of course like the project to have a Scottish twist to it and that means it could be done anywhere in the world where there are Scottish roots.
So do get in touch if you think you could help to get such a project on the go.
Alastair
It just seems to me that we could take a real community and turn it into a virtual one through all the facilities that the web offers us.
For example I did try to get one going with the Gairloch and Loch Maree area of Scotland but it's obvious that this didn't happen. What I tried to do was to profile the area through using old history books of the area. I then managed to get some pictures of the area. You can see this base page at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/gairloch
What I then wanted to do was to get the locals involved and to that end I created a forum for them in here. I hoped that they might take hundreds of pictures of the area on different subjects. Like someone might be interested in flowers so could have taken pictures of every flower in the area and send them in. Should they like hill walking they could take lots of pictures of one walk telling us what we were seeing on the way.
I also hoped some of the locals would talk about their own families and tell us what they did for a living and businesses could profile themselves.
To me it just sounded like a lot of fun but also useful for the community.
And so it seems clear to me that we need foot soldiers on the ground to make any of this happen and so just wondered if anyone in here might find this project to be of interest?
I would of course like the project to have a Scottish twist to it and that means it could be done anywhere in the world where there are Scottish roots.
So do get in touch if you think you could help to get such a project on the go.
Alastair
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