 Hello everybody, I decided to be lazy and just give you my presentation for a couple of years. This is me standing here, I'm going to have a quick cup of tea backstage. But no, four years ago I came to ignite Amherst for the first time, it was amazing because I realized there's this percolation and cross-pollination of ideas which is exactly what we look for in the field of community media. So what we're doing with all of the community media things, we notice a lot of times we have what we call here a technical snafu, and press the button to make the slides advance instead. What we can see on slide number two is Amherst, but we're surrounded. The Commonwealth is the heartland of community media. These are all the community television and local RFM organizations that are across the place. I'm guessing this is not 15 seconds. Otherwise my conception of time has really got us in the interval. But we're about watching things local. We're about broadcasting local, facilitating your dreams, enabling you to do things you might not otherwise have a chance to do. This is all filmed in hours, but it's not just in the Commonwealth, it's across the US. We want to work to make sure that people are fighting for better media. We partner with Free Press, who happens to be local too. And they're one of the many advocates for community and public media because we're pre-reformed media. We're not owned, we're neutral, we're non-partisan. We don't have any agenda other than standing up for you and for free speech. And when we do that, we don't. I just had my staff from last time take it from taxes. Our money, in the case of community television, is from your cable fees. A tiny little percentage, you won't even notice your generous donations. Your generous donations, memberships, the classes we do, etc. And we give back. And while we're giving back, well, cable is just in Amherst, where you can see it here. We did a survey of UMass last year where 17 communities across the Pioneer Valley and beyond regularly have people that are watching us online because we know that we have to make sure we are broadcasting globally. But with the sense across the US, it's about training. It's about building skills so people understand how to use the technology. Amherst is an Apple authorized training center. We do that like many places so that when you put on your resume, you know, photo shop. You actually know photo shop. So these are some of the interns that we taught. Just last semester that we had with us, across the US, the number of people that have gone from community media to Hollywood to television, to independent productions, to all kinds of incredible things, is phenomenal. But you don't have to just take my word for it. We had a special guest, but last Thursday, you can tell me what he thinks about you. He is a very good friend and very capable and it's a great way to engage in a kind of, as I say, long-form information that they don't lend themselves to oversimplification. I need to oversimplify the rest of my slides instead. What we do is combine the startup philosophy with a nonprofit budget, which is kind of tricky because we have to do everything for nothing or less because that's not very correct. We do that along the lines for community media, the national organization and state chapters like Mass Access to make sure that we can do it sensibly and partner together so we can work on projects like the Internet Archive, where we're putting all of the community media materials from the last 40 plus years in some cases up online. It's government beatings. It's the shows you've done. It's the things you won't see anywhere. You can watch them here. You can watch them in rock here. You can put them in loads of places. We're being responsive to the new technology. In Northampton, there sits a journalist, a Paradise City press. They do not just television. They do short-form video photography, written passages as well. All kinds of fabulous things. In Amherst, we had a visiting professor, Yuan Zhen from China, who as well as doing the news for us in English also did the Amherst news in Chinese. Part of that was because we now have in Amherst the UNESCO board's chair member, Yuan Xubase, who works for the... And this is a tongue twister when we get to the next slide because there's lots of C's and S's. The Center for Communication for Sustainable Social Change. And Yuan now is at the University of Hong Kong. So we have partnerships between Hong Kong and Amherst. Along with my limited understanding, and this is the secretly global of geography, quite a few other places in between because I don't think we're quite next to a neighbor this is exactly. In the US, these are the people who we're partnered with and want in Sweden as well, working on open source software of Drupal and Civi CRM to make new websites to extend the possibilities of it. You can see Manhattan Neighborhood Network's shiny new version of this, which looks rather different from the world of community media websites even three or four years ago and we're moving forward to a changing this. We are engaging in the community. And that... So that engagement is with open source. It's philosophical. It's working out that we don't have to take things all the time. We're giving back as partnerships in various forms. That started here. I don't know if you stand in the building. This evening I met Karna. We work with Karna in a very brief way to test localocracy because we show local government they take the pulse of the local public to say what they have to say about local government. These things naturally come together and after working with us I believe you managed to go and do something successful and telling it to the Huffington Post maybe. So the universe expands and shifts in strange ways with that. We met some guys from down the road who had started their own IT company. We said, sure, we've tested software. What about hardware? Can you make us a multi-platform open source edit server that will work with all 20 computers in our building and do it for a tenth of the cost of what it would be to be able to buy something otherwise? And they did. And it's awesome. We've had for two years. They've now made one for the Hadley Fire Department as well as Belmont and Chicago Community Center. Well, these are just the things that have already happened. This is a schematic for Cambridge Community Television's new fabulous studio. I encourage you to go and visit. They've now finished. We are in the process of envisioning what the future's going to be like, what it's going to be. We know media changes a lot. That's been the case. We have to be responsive. We need to plan out and think about it. We are now in the process of moving ourselves and animals. And we need to have your vision, your help, your donations, your interest, your enthusiasm, your passion, because community media isn't what I was talking about at the stage. It isn't all the fabulous people bringing this to you and streaming it. It is the community. We want to be involved with you in every way. Thank you very much.