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Artwork by Debra Harrow
You are the first to know! Today, at the Open Eugene Festival, the coders, the ones who laboriously write the software line by line, Heron and Nathan, who will be introduced to you as soon as I can edit the video interviews, (deep breath) encouraged me to publish the link to the SOAR page so that people can start using it, ask questions, make suggestions. Your feedback will help refine the finished product.
It is NOT ready for live "beta testing." It's a bare-bones site with many to-do's to bring it up to the initial vision, and our goal is to have it ready for the beta test by March 15, 2019, when a small group of actual users will begin adding their profiles to the database. Today, you can create your profile to gain access to the site and look around, but you will find dummy images and text, links that don't work. All existing profiles will be dumped when the site goes live for beta testing.
Backpedaling a bit, the Open Eugene Festival is a much smaller event than the Hack-For-A-Cause event which launched the work on SOAR. It offered us a chance to intensely network with other techies in some very encouraging ways, and has basically been a booster-rocket for all of us.
Click the link below and have some fun.
http://soarnetwork.cf
Not familiar with SOAR? Here's some back story
Here's some video of our presentation at the Open Eugene Festival.
Skip to 32:30 to see the presentation about SOAR! The two young men writing the code for this software have spent about 100 hours each of volunteer time to bring the project to this point, and in this video are asking other coders to join them and bring it to readiness for a beta test.
As the visionary stimulus for this project, I had no idea how much technical time and talent are needed to build a website. I am deeply grateful for, and proud of, what Heron and Nathan have contributed to ECAN. I am also astounded at the enormous amount of support the Eugene tech community, the "Silicon Shire," has generously provided for the public social benefit of this area. ~ David
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