About Me

I'm the webmaster of the We the Wiki project.  I'm always looking for input from other users to make this community the best it can be.

My participation started while I was helping with the campaign website of Allan Katz, one of the founders of The Village Square.  Liz Joyner, the Executive Director, asked me to throw up a website for their fledgling organization, which I did, following Allan's website format.  A few years, and a great deal of town hall meetings, dinners and other events since, we have received a grant from the Knight Foundation:

In an effort to revitalize the dialogue among the city's diverse residents, this grant will help launch "The Village Square: We the People," a 21^st century virtual and real world public square. The project will offer unique town hall forums in addition to constructive online engagement and a community problem-solving Wiki. Organizers aim to renew Tallahassee's marketplace of ideas where good solutions rise from an informed citizenship, and where abundant information can be channeled into constructive results.

We the Wiki, using Confluence software from Atlassian , will hopefully provide the necessary tools for "informed citizenship".  Some things will be very intuitive, others might not be.  Don't worry if you mess something up, just let me know and I'll get it back to normal.

E-mail: matthew at thatchermathias dot com