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Jazus! I think setting this up is going to generate some great edits, but it hasn't changed nearly at all in a year.

I'm taking it over!! :)
with love and much happiness.
-Alex
http://www.localcallingguide.com/lca_listexch.php?lata=674

[WWW]http://www.localcallingguide.com/lca_listexch.php?lata=674

orcas.jpg Orcas Wiki is a free and openly editable encyclopedia of all things Orcas Island...

A perfect companion to the free WiFi to be found in beautiful downton Eastsound. Just connect to "Orcas Community Network" next time you are in town. If you like a free Orcas Community Network and Free WiFi/WiKi consider [WWW]donate - all goes to the Orcas Internet Coop to purchase more equipment and access.

Anybody can edit this wiki to share knowledge with citizens of Orcas and the world! Simply click on Edit at the top of any article, or click on any dashed link representing an article that does not yet exist, but is requested. Want to get more involved? Email us: [MAILTO]Orcas Community Internet at Gmail.com Consider hosting a node at your home or business in Eastsound. Especially cool if you are willing to share your DSL connection and provide host a "gateway" node. Or just send us your contact info. We will be having some "round table" meetings soon to gather community.

[WWW]Check out the photographs from the 2008 Steve Braun TriAthlon!

Visiting Orcas Island? Visitors Guide

If you're new, check out the Introduction. If you find yourself contributing regularly, please consider [WWW]creating a free account so that you are no longer anonymous to the Wiki Community. Need help editing? Check out the Orcas Wiki Guide and practice at the Wiki Sand Box. Try looking at Title Index and Wanted Pages for some inspiration. In fact, here's a random page that may need expansion: Front Page.

Events Board is a page where anyone can post events in the community.

Orcas Island Airport is online - pilots, passengers and friends can now access the Internet for free courtesy of the Orcas Community Broadband Network - volunteers and sponsors. [orcas]Orcas Wiki

You are online to the internet with full, free access. You can do what you want. its free, so you can get emails, or browse the web. If you are looking for a full time always on connection, check with a local ISP for that. The Orcas Community Network is a service designed to allow visitors and residents to get access everywhere. You'll find its faster than AT&T 3g or other cellular broadband, but its not as fast as Orcas Online, Rock Island or Century Tel. For always on, reliable service, get a connection from a fixed Internet service provider that's already doing a good job.

Patronize these fine businesses to show your support of the Orcas Community Internet.
[WWW]Outlook Inn, [WWW]Edna Gallery, HomeGrown Foods, [WWW]Boheme Boutique, Chimayo, Orcas Chamber of Commerce, Biplane Rides at East Sound Airport, the Port of Orcas Airport terminal and management, and .. (need to complete) add your business here Orcas Businesses.

Stay at the Outlook Inn, enjoy Adam's fabulous historic hotel and the fine crew that make it a pleasure to be there now. Martin and company at [WWW]Edna Gallery as well Rod at Biplane rides @ Orcas Airport.

Thank you, everyone for helping out. I've been coming to Orcas Island since 1993, and am moved to do whatever I can to preserve its beauty and support the local social and cultural environment. Love and tranquility to everyone.

Following the Elect Christine Gregoire effort?

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Explore around this new Wiki. We're looking to add a few editors. If you feel you have something to contribute, send a note, or just start editing, and we'll know. Let's build a Wiki that our small team is happy with for now, and open it up to everyone later.

Basic ideas at present are:

  • a event board for events happening in town - and a link to the general calendar - done

  • a message board for shared rides, off-island visits, people willing to bring back or take along - moving along

  • pages that help newcomers to Orcas Island find cool things to do and how to do them. - moving along

    When I first came to Orcas island via the airport, it wasn't clear what I could do on those days and how I'd get around. I'd like to document a typical arrival via airplane and one via Ferry.

  • Use the WiKi to tell stories about how various events take place here. For example, for many years, I'd arrive via a small plane, camp out at Moran State Park for 2 days then head over to Rosarios for a hot shower, warm bed and delicious meal the last day. That was a perfect 4 day 3 night weekend. These days, I love staying at the Outlook inn, its a bit closer to the Airport for a walk and I pack a bike in the plane, so its easy for me to commute into town.

  • ideas for the network that help foster network expansion and local use - webcams, live images, VoIP examples, PBX - for phone exchanges

  • keeping a network of networks free is crucial. There are many efforts to close networks of networks to allow only large companies to innovate in this space. For example, cellular companies would love to close the network to only their applications, as they have. iPhone and other small smart cell phones break from this tradition. Never the less, if you consider what a network of networks has become - Facebook, Bibo, MySpace - social level networks, you may come to the conclusion that a network of networks should not be controlled by so-called 'market forces' - i.e. big business, big government. Small, innovative groups of individuals created the internet. There's simply no denying that, and no large capital expense was required to make it work. Orcas Community Internet is such an example, small innovative and free.

    Busy week.

Featured Page

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Aspen's Sopris Foundation [WWW]short movie about managing growth.
Wonderful site on sustainability. [WWW]wiser earth home page

Today's Events

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Perhaps the tide calendar link, ferry schedule link, music, festivals, parties, links to other calendars, all things so we know what's happening when we are here now.
[WWW]Orcas Island Calendar
[WWW]Another Island calendar
Tides

Mystery Picture

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Taken on the north end of Orcas Island. Email your guess to [MAILTO]OrcasPhoto
For more local photos see Orcas Photos

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This is another good place to start [c2]gnomeing.

east sound, WA

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