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Greeting All,
This is the first entry in “Forging The Future”, the official web log of The Institute for End User Computing, Inc.
If you found our site through this page, it should be noted that The IEUC is a New York State not-for-profit corporation currently in the process of preparing to apply to The IRS for a Section 501(c)(3) federal tax exemption. We anticipate that this process will be completed by the end of the year.
Our charitable purpose is to advance the state of the art in information technology and advance the interests of End Users like you!
What is an End User? An End User is anyone and everyone using computers and related technologies as tools in their work or play. Indeed, even computer programmers are End Users of the tools they use to develop new programs, as are the developers of those tools when using other tools to develop them! Likewise, your next door neighbor, your son or daughter’s teacher, and your employer can all find themselves in the role of an End User as can bleeding edge technologists, liberal arts faculty members, and those brave patriots who put their lives on the line to man all levels of our homeland security infrastructure.
In short, all of us are directly or indirectly End Users of computing technology, but our needs often take a second place behind short term technological, economic, and marketing considerations. The problem is that up until now it hasn’t been anyone’s job to worry about The Big Picture and take a long term view of where we are and where we should be.
That is why we founded The Institute for End User Computing and made it our Job to look out for you and focus on doing The Right Thing rather than the fast and easy “Worse is Better” thing.
But The Institute is young and while we are truly gifted in terms of the brain trust that we can draw on, we are starting off on a shoestring budget. So we need your support!
If you’ve ever wanted to tear your computer off your desk and hurl it out a window or lob a brick through your screen in a fit of “Computer Rage”, stop complaining, and do something about it!
We know what needs to be done! We know who knows how to do it! But we need your financial support so we can fund them to do the work. After all, even the most public spirited and magnanimous providers of free and open source software need to put food on the table. So we need your donations so we will have the resources to employ them to build the next generation of tools to make your life easier, your employer more productive, our cyber infrastructure more secure, and just maybe indirectly change our information technology environment enough to one day save your job or even your life.
We are already hard at work in the trenches and hope to prove worthy of your generous support!
We now return you to your regularly scheduled commentary.