BEAM Explained
Vision
Rochester ... a community fully engaged in creating a smarter planet where all its members have equitable access to information technology (IT) to attain wellness, prosperity and sustainability.
Mission
Through education, collaboration and IT service projects, we build, enable, activate and model (BEAM) a network of IT skills to help the community.
2015
A year to relaunch and reconnect the network membership
2013 Membership
Core Team
- Al Lun
- Andrew Schultz
Steering Committee / Well wishers
- Al Lun, Middle Way Group Consulting, Diversity Council Board Member, Kiwanis Rochester Member
- Michael Fallenstein, IEEE, Sigma Xi
- Kim Sin, Interim President, Cambodian Association Rochester Minnesota (CARM)
- Ashok Patel, Past-president of Diversity Council Board, Rotary Club
- Steve Courts, the Y Rochester, MN
- Mark Adafin, Global Home Heath Care, Inc
- George Thompson, G B Thomson Solutions
- Andrew Schultz
- Ron Buzzard – Executive Director, IMAA
For more information about our current club member, please visit the club membership page.
2011 - 2012 Steering Committee and Well-wishers
- Al Lun, Middle Way Group Consulting, Diversity Council Board Member, Kiwanis Rochester Member
- Steve Conners, Ability Building Center (Ability Built Computers)
- Kim Sin, Interim President, Cambodian Association Rochester Minnesota (CARM)
- Ashok Patel, Past-president of Diversity Council Board, Rotary Club
- Steve Courts, the Y Rochester, MN
- Colleen Maddox, RCTC, Kiwanis Rochester
- Pradeep Nambier, Pexus LLC
- Mark Adafin, Global Home Heath Care, Inc
- George Thompson, G B Thomson Solutions
- Jenny Gile, Y Mentor
- Rich Hartmann, Holy Ground Catholic Community
Build and nurture human resources with a passion to learn about technologies
Expand Science Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) capacities.
Enable the team
Enable is about giving the nascent team the tools, access, the right amount of start-up knowledge to get up to speed.
- Grant access to cloud platform, teamroom to enable immersion and quick time to fun and play
- Access to computing platform (local server as well as cloud)
Activate and deploy the team
Activate is about connecting resources to engage in solving real social or commercial problems. It goes beyond the theoretical and the feel-good realm to get into putting the resources to work for real projects. It's the belief that you are what you do and not what you talk about.
- Project pipeline
- Flexible cost structure including
- Sweat equity
- Project fit to community considerations
- Future impacts
Model respect, openness and sharing
Model openness and service and the habits of win-win and synergies. Adopt the wikipedia/open source community model of openness, service, contribution to a larger good with a conviction that the more we share the more we get back in sustainability, wellness and prosperity. Prosperity can be measured either in financial return or self-actualization of contributor's passion.
It's demonstrating and putting effective habits to work. It's living the "leadership" life that LPG talks about.
Don't wait for superman to appear from somewhere else.
We are it! We Think big, act small, move fast.