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After almost seven years at the LINC Project, with the highest honor in Circuit Riding named after him, Dirk Slater has left the LINC Project to embark on an exciting adventure in international circuit riding. Dirk's last day as Senior Circuit Rider was April 21, 2005. We miss him already! Dirk's farewell letter:I started working as a Circuit Rider for the Low-Income Networking and Communications (LINC) Project of the Welfare Law Center in May of 1998. Since then LINC has worked on dozens and dozens of technology projects for low-income-led organizations working to bring positive change for their communities. During this time I've been honored to work alongside my heroes, community organizers and the leadership of these organizations. Now it is time for me to say goodbye to working here at LINC, and it is not an easy thing to do. In addition to working on some incredibly deep collaborations in the organizing community and the non-profit technology assistance provider community, I've been blessed with working with an incredible staff here at the Welfare Law Center. Under the guidance of Henry Freedman, Executive Director and the immediate supervision of Gina Mannix, Project Director, LINC has been a place that nurtured and allowed me to grow professionally. The team of Circuit Riders that I've worked with at LINC, which includes Arif Mamdani, now at the Progressive Technology Project and Amanda Hickman, who remains here with LINC to help guide it to its next phase, are individuals that contributed to a rich and collaborative work environment that I thrived on. It has been an incredible journey. One of the things that has been a very satisfying outcome at LINC is that it serves as a model for other technology assistance providers, not just here in the US but also abroad. In my new position I will be building upon my work at LINC in a very unique way. I will be joining the team at Tactical Technology Collective (www.tacticaltech.org), a foundation based in the Netherlands, which aims to strengthen social technology movements and networks in developing and transitioning countries, as well as promote civil society's effective, conscious and creative use of new technologies.Tactical Tech has long been supporting a budding eRider (the term for Circuit Rider outside the US) community that is largely working in developing countries. As eRider Coordinator I will be providing direct support to Open Society Institute funded eRider projects along with contributing to the further development of the eRider community. For more on eRider see: www.eriders.net. My last day here at the Welfare Law Center will be April 15th. After the 15th, any LINC business should be directed to Amanda Hickman at amanda@welfarelaw.org. Amanda has put a lot of effort into shaping LINC since she started two years ago, and I'm more than confident the project will thrive in her hands, along with Gina's continuing input and oversight. As a dear old friend of mine once said "Relationships never end, they only change." I look forward to keeping touch with everyone in my new role. All my best, |
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