Proposal to Improve the Goathouse’s Intranet
Posted June 19, 2023
June 19, 2023
Dear all,
The wonderful news is that we can have a real working internet at the Goathouse!
Our rural home in Pittsboro is beautiful. But we and our neighbors live in one of the many rural areas in this country that (until May 1st) did not have access to a real working internet. How can I describe the torture of managing our website, Facebook and all the communications between us and our donors/friends/ followers with something worse than snail mail? I have not been able to open websites or doctors’ notes because the internet is too slow.
Let me introduce you to Brian Ceccarelli. Brian is a software engineer and owns his own business. Brian’s LinkedIn profile is https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-ceccarelli-08824b2/. He is our newest board member, deeply cares about the cats, and has the knowledge to bring our organization where it should be.
Attached is Brian’s proposal to improve the Goathouse’s intranet. In the proposal, he states our technology challenge and provides a solution along with the cost of doing it. There is a one-page document that explains why we need the technology and how it will help us reach a wider audience. Also attached is a site-specific schematic—a picture of where the different computers and network hardware will appear in the Goathouse Sanctuary. If you want even more details, here is the link to a breakdown of the hardware we plan to purchase.
https://www.goathouserefuge.org/behind-the-scene/new-projects/
As you probably know, we are transforming Goathouse refuge to a Goathouse Sanctuary for older and non-adoptable cats.
With the new technology, can have live video feeds so that everyone can see the kitties in their home, in the gardens, when they eat, sleep and play . . . and see us working with them. We can have interactive video, chat pages and blogs to field questions. I will teach a class on how to talk with the kitties. People will be able to see Honey-Honey telling me that nobody fed him and that I need to follow him to the food so he can have some. Everyday something happens that makes me say, “If people could only see this!”
What we have done, only with the generosity of our donors, has been heroic. But as the world has gone more online, we have become progressively handicapped.
We are posting the proposal to the internet as far as we can reach. We are looking to raise $20,000, and we are asking you to help raising the money we need! Please, post this on your FB, talk with your kitty loving friends and colleagues, ask to the company where you work to match your donations….. we will keep you posted on the progress….
Brian would also be the perfect new manager of the Sanctuary. we will have an interactive channel so you could ask questions and talk with me and Brian. We will answer any questions you have and you will get to meet him and me if you didn’t already. We are at an inflexion point, a point where continual emergency mode can transform to self-sustaining. Brian says that at this point in his life, he wants to give up a high-paying job in order to do something enjoyable and meaningful
Thank you as always for your generosity. I tell the cats every day that we would be nowhere without you!
Best wishes and big hugs!
Siglinda
