Thanks, all, for your continued interest in learning from Chattanooga Venture about engaging and mobilizing community members for inclusive, positive, sustainable change. The discussion today confirmed my thinking about evolving the group into a network, which means (1) we all contribute and coordinate while (2) we all do our own things and (3) we connect others who are working for inclusive, positive, sustainable change. Going forward I’m going to personally focus on listening to the voice of the community as a representative of Chattanooga.Digital—our new community tech cooperative… and the world’s first digital utility! Chattanooga.Digital will provide the software infrastructure for this, the means for people to connect, engage, and share, as a community service. It’s literally our mission. The Study Group will transition from in-person meetings to the online platform, venturing.chattanooga.digital. Our next regular Study Group meeting on May 5th will be an on-boarding session for the platform, to get everyone signed up and familiar with its features and functions. You can join Venturing.Chattanooga.Digital now by clicking here <https://venturing.chattanooga.digital/invites/xQEhVNYuDG>! I will administer it and train others to do so. Chattanooga.Digital will have workshops for the platform (Discourse <https://discourse.org/>) because we’ll provide it to any community group that needs a forum. The platform is quite powerful but also rather generic at the moment. If anyone we want to add content and/or customize it, Chattanooga.Digital can facilitate that. Chattanooga Venturing will continue as a collaborative network to do what Venture did: Channel the voice of the community and connect people to learn and work together. This is something Chattanooga.Digital needs and I suspect others do, too. We need capacity and tools for that. I see an opportunity as well as a need here, so I plan to revive the Facilitator Bank as an entrepreneur through my company, Eduity. We will open source all of the tools, etc., for anyone to use My objective is to build the capabilities for the community and cover my costs; this is not going to be a money-making, exclusive, high-dollar program! If anyone is interested in participating or partnering on the Facilitator Bank, please reach out! The dialogues will shift to a livestream/podcast format after this month. Philip Luckey and I will produce these. We encourage others to join in and replicate them. The format will be “open source” so that anyone can host dialogues in conjunction with or separate from what we’re doing. Chattanooga.Digital will provide apps and services to support this, too, and we will coordinate and share via the Venturing platform. We will be looking for topics, sponsors, and locations. If you have any suggestions, please reach out about that. Thanks, again, for your in-person participation and interest. Let’s take it to the next level! Join the network, continue to connect and share. — Greg Laudeman, Ed.D. Executive Officer and Principal Eduity, LLC www.eduity.net greg@eduity.net 706-271-5521