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 It’s time for the incredible Middlesbrough Mela once again. Our Community Media Crew will form the video team transmitting the action to the 22 ft stageside screen. Roving photographers will be capturing the event. The Abingdon Road school animations will be projected onto the big screen. Our media truck will be stage side to upload the still images and transmit the webcast feed from the performances on the main stage. Catch it all here – www.boromela.co.uk  [from tvcm2] The massive (and expensive) TVCM server has come down. The page you are looking at is hosted by a local company, the excellent UK Web Solutions If you are looking for web space please click on the link and help support TVCM. One by one the Tees Valley communities are moving to individual inexpensive UKWS hosting accounts. Some may choose a free web 2.00 option. This will create a sustainable and robust community network. First up is Tom Kelly. Ok so Tom’s not a community group but he is a poet and playwright and works with oodles of community groups. LATEST – Loftus Town Crier – Marske Digital Village. 01/05/08 New – Margrove Park Digital Village have taken flight
05/05/08 Easton Residents Association have taken flight. 06/05/08 Maureen Almond (poet) has taken flight. 07/05/08 – and another one East Middlesbrough Digital Village (TS3) (includes the fabulous V91 Dreams Hopes and Wishes Exhibition and Multi Cultural East Middlesbrough)
09/05/08 Friends Of Redcar Cemetery are laid to rest in their new web home.
18/05/08 Straad Players are live. Marske Digital Village. Plus whoever I forgot. Other archived projects will appear over on the right hand menu as they are ported. As the big ol server gets shut down I’m reminded of an image and a story I blogged back in 2004. Here it is again for your entertainment. Warrior Women and a Server Technician  I don’t know if the humour of this situation will come across in print. I was working in Hartlepool with a group today called the Warrior Women . This ICT centre had the feeling of the Marie Celeste and when we tried to log on we were getting nowhere with usernames and passwords. We were almost on the point of giving up when this woman walked in and said she had sorted out the server. I said “excuse me, I don’t want to sound rude but you don’t look like the kind of person who resolves server issues” She said “well, I’m a kitchen helper but I know how to sort out the server” I asked her to show me and we went into another deserted room which was quite surreal as it had a two way mirror into the computer room. She then demonstrated to me her server technique (see below) It worked but I’m sure you’re not supposed to throw the mains switch off and back on again! The Video below was recently re-dicovered on a CD lying at the bottom of a drawer. In 2000 seven Tees Valley communities represented themselves on the Internet as Tees Valley Communities Online. At the same time the University of Teesside’s Virtual Reality department worked with these communities to develop a vision for their regeneration and future development. These environments could be viewed in the University of Teesside’s innovative “Hemispherum” and each community visited the Hemispherum to see this. Another hybrid VR model was built to represent all the communities and artefacts and creative objects were placed within it. The video of this place can be seen below Now, Skinningrove are doing something very similar but in Second Life (see below)
(right) Whitecliffe Podcasters with Barry Hunt (Click to enlarge)  Well it’s quite hush hush at the moment but we do indeed have plans. Take a look at the picture gallery and then enjoy this movie. With thanks to the people who gave us permission to use these. NB click on an image to enlarge and then click at the top to see the very largest version.
     
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