The Star Academy Lobby of the Star Cafe

A. Summary:

This is the Star Academy Lobby of the Star Café Rooms. The Star Academy is an educational tool of the Star Café. It contains Star Points, which are short, descriptive posts on a single subject.

B. Key Points:

· The purpose of the Star Academy Lobby in the Star Café Rooms is education

· This room is intended for use by the AFSC community and the wider public who participate in the Star Cafe

· This room has Categories of Star Points that are open to the public, and other Categories that are restricted to a specific audience, such as a single AFSC Department

· The owner of this room is Bob Goodman

· The host of the room is Elizabeth Wallace

· The Star Café is supported by the AFSC IT Department

· For corrections, updates, or clarifications of this document, please email Elizabeth Wallace

C. Details:

The Star Café is a collection of tools owned and operated by the American Friends Service Committee for the purpose of enhancing communication in support of the peace and justice missions of the AFSC. One of the tools of the Star Café is the Star Café Rooms, which is a collection of virtual rooms in the Microsoft SharePoint collaborative software environment. Each room is intended for a certain community, and has an owner, who is responsible for defining the community, selecting the room furnishings, and encouraging participation. The community is a group of individuals united by a common task, objective, interest, organization, geography, etc., as determined by the owner.

This is the Star Academy Lobby of the Star Café Rooms. The Star Academy is designed to be an educational tool for the Star Café. This room is intended for both the AFSC community and other groups that use the Star Café. So certain parts of the Star Academy will be open to all and other parts will be restricted to a group or a department, for example. The topics covered in the Star Academy range from technology to political action policies and procedures – any topic that will assist AFSC and its affiliates in education. The format of posts in the Star Academy is fixed: all posts are in Star Point format to make the information in the post easily absorbed depending on the reader’s level of familiarity with the topic.

The “owner” of the room is responsible for determining room content, community membership, and general public access to the room. The owner of the Star Academy room is Bob Goodman. The “host” handles the technical maintenance of the room. The host of this room is Elizabeth Wallace. The IT Department of AFSC supports and maintains the Star Café. Should you need to contact anyone about the Star Cafe, please clearly identify yourself and the room in which you are experiencing difficulty, as there are many who support more than one room.