The project (we) are working on is a community based, public-need project. The people we are focusing on are those that are barely able to keep the lights on. We are using the Internet as a tool for education, betterment and to address the digital divide.

You're playing against a stacked deck. I think that's all we're asking for was a fair shot for our community and our kids to enjoy the euphoria that goes with a trip to the state tournament.

It's a chance for us to show off to these companies.

We are just geeks who want to pull the two cities together and pool our resources.

So it was in Botswana, almost everywhere; ties of kinship, no matter how attenuated by distance or time, linked one person to another, weaving across the country a human blanket of love and community. And in the fibres of that blanket there were threads of obligation that meant that one could not ignore the claims of others. Nobody should starve; nobody should feel that they were outsiders; nobody should be alone in their sadness.

The local community is very important in one's life; the feelings of identification with a place and people.