E-mails with the subject Soul of Athens have been filling my inbox for the last 4 weeks. To keep this project organized and focused the group has started a Basecamp project that allows members to receive e-mails whenever a new message is sent.
Needless to say I have filled my once ‘unlimited’ Gmail account to 30 percent. At first the e-mails were discussing ideas for projects and how the teams would be separated as the projects got underway and slowly turned to more practical like meeting times and more recently polling what people thing of the new design and how to increase Google ranking.
The conversation has been incessantly filling my inbox and through it I have heard some rather interesting things. For example, apparently Max, the programming guru of the group, broke his nose at some point recently. I am sure hilarity ensues and I will make sure he posts the story here.
To tease a little the sections of the Web site are going to include Creative, Spirit, Enviroment and Youth. Each section is going to have a list of ‘characters’ from the community that really describe that part of Athens. For these projects the producers are looking into using video, photography and infographics to try to explain the unique experience in the community.
Personally my favorite part of this project is that it is supposed to introduce new people to the community. Even though the people of the community will be drawn to this project, this project is supposed to get outsiders a peek into real world Athens. As someone who is leaving this very unique community I know I am going to miss this city that is ‘Precariously balanced on the tip of cosmopolitan Appalachia.’