A new mentoring season approaches at the Rural Design Collective, and we are sprucing up our digs with a new design that has been engineered to last us into the future. We are still under construction, but the framework is in place and we are fleshing out the content. Our most notable new section is BUY OUR STUFF, where you (yes, YOU, Dear Reader … ) can help support our Internet Good Deeds and Random Real World Acts of Kindness^TM by purchasing things that we create. This program is currently powered by the sheer will and creativity of the people you see in the Meet The RDC section, so every little bit helps keep us moving forward.

We will be adding new items to the BUY OUR STUFF section over the coming months while we plan our program for 2010. Please consider purchasing an item to help us continue our work. Supporters of our program will be eligible for inclusion in the “Friends of the Rural Design Collective.”

In the meantime, check out our 2009 site (no longer online - see our 2008 and 2009 project pages for more information on the projects during that time period) to get a flavor of what the Rural Design Collective is all about. We had a blast participating in the One Laptop Per Child’s Contributor Program!

As we like to say at #rdcHQ – Stay tuned!