I would like to take this opportunity to introduce you to the Rural Design Collective (RDC). The RDC is a remote mentoring program with a local focus designed to help motivated, creative people begin a career on the Internet. The program is in its second year, and currently sponsored by Point B Studio. Last year we worked with North Curry Community Radio to launch a website to help them with their campaign to bring community radio to our area. This year we are focusing on public domain books for kids.

The Rural Design Collective was recently granted a hardware donation from the One Laptop Per Child Foundation. Six XO laptops were granted to us through the OLPC Contributors Program — and we will be creating XO bundles of public domain books for kids from the Internet Archive Children’s Library! These six computers will be returned at the end of the program and the IACL books will be distributed to other XO laptops. OLPC has a group of volunteers assisting in the librarianship, and we will also be documenting our progress on the web so other people can benefit. It is an exciting program, and we are honored to be involved.