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This page contains background information on Sustainable Wellington Net. For details about the site itself, see our Mission page.
Contact Details
For more information on this project contact the coordinator, Mike Ennis:
E-mail: elm@clear.net.nz
Address: PO Box 9608, Wellington, New Zealand
Home phone: 387 1100
Work phone: 471 2755
Credits
Thanks to our provider and volunteers:
Mike Rumble, Tim Jordan, and the Wellington Community Network, part of the Wellington City Council, Tumeke Pōneke, for kindly hosting this site.
Tom Robinson for creating and maintaining the FileMaker Pro database behind most of the links, and much work on the layout and coding of the site 1998–2004.
Celia Wade-Brown as Wellington City Councillor for being a driver of the project, general support, and initiating the invaluable formation of W4.
Matt Dell for the mock-up of the site.
Stephen Blyth for assisting with the development of the Sustainable Wellingon Net concept.
Susie Brow and
Sally Bowman as the driving force behind the green centre idea.
CGI Tools <http://counter.telecom.at/> for providing our original free hit counter.
Becky & Cam at Neogine for our great display poster.
Fame & Fortune
2000-04-18: We gave a speech on ‘The Sustainable Wellington Net: Developing an Electronic Community Network for the Environment/Conservation Community’ at the ‘Flaxroots Technology: Claiming the Internet for Community’ conference. See our Newsletter #10 for a review and a copy of the paper.
1999-11-25: Our Government Election Survey 1999 summary was published in City Voice.
1999-11-11: We received 580 votes for being a great site, putting us at position 10 on uNZipped’s list of NZ’s top sites.
1999-10-14: There was a picture of Buttercup and associated writeup preceding the Wellington Green Day in City Voice. Buttercup the cow was the raffle ticket ‘drawer’ at the Green Day: Her field was divided into squares and her first ‘deposit’ of the day determined the winning ticket.
1999-09-29: Mike presented a paper on the development of Sustainable Wellington Net at the ‘Community Networking 99: Engaging Regionalism Conference’ at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. See our Newsletter #6 for more information and a copy of the paper.
1999-06-09: We were accepted by Wammo into their Mezzanine listing (under Society—Environment), which ‘contained over 450 of the top sites in New Zealand and was a great resource for people wanting to surf cool NZ sites’.1999-05-13: City Voice published a ¼ page article with photo.
1999-04-22: A brief summary of our site appeared in Contact.
1999-03-12: Paul McGovern talked about us on the Kim Hill show. His site had a brief summary of the positive speech he made.
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