The List Foundation is a Bay Area virtual community that grew from craigs-list. It provides useful resources to the local community, including jobs, events, apartments, for sale items, and so on. Communication is via a family of email lists and a web site.
Over the course of its evolution, the List Foundation has built a community where people connect with each other, and has somehow built a feeling of community mediated primarily by electronic means. This is recently been complemented by starting a series of "block parties."
The plans of the List Foundation include expansion to other cities and job mentoring and training.
About the speaker:
Nancy was bred and born in Berkeley, and raised in the walnut orchards of Alamo. She returned to her roots and attended Cal, graduating with both a bachelor's and a master's degree. She also pursued Ph.D. studies at Cal. She has held a variety of positions in industry, all dealing with emerging technology.
She has a passion (actually she has a lot of passion) for alpine skiing, France, and cooking - not necessarily in that order. More about Nancy.
Craig is a hardcore Java and Web programmer who grew up wearing a plastic pocket protector and thick black glasses, taped together, the full nerd cliche.
He started craigslist, the predecessor to listfoundation.org, in early '95 as a means of better connecting to people by letting them know about cool or useful events happening around San Francisco. It rapidly grew and built a large community of people mostly in the new media industry.
Contact information:
Craig Newmark
1010 Cole Street
San Francisco CA 94117
415.753.6394
craig@listfoundation.org
craig@cnewmark.com
Nancy Melone
6 Sager Court
Orinda, California 94563
nancy@listfoundation.org
nancy@i-intl.com