It´s over!
Thanks to all!

I´ll leave this site up as a reminder and a museum piece for a while. No major infrastructure failures -- anywhere!  Better minds than mine will have to puzzle through that one. 

About this site:

I´m a community organizer type person who had pretty reasonable success working on Y2k community preparedeness here in my city (St Paul, MN).  Our Mayor, Norm Coleman, was the first big-city mayor to get seriously behind a city-backed community preparedness effort.  We owe him a great debt for his ongoing support.

Here´s the essance of what we said (over and over <grin>).

• Y2k impacts could be severe, but the maddening thing is we won´t really know what´s coming until it´s too late to prepare
• Given that we don´t know what´s going to happen, and that we´re in a high-risk zone, getting ready is the prudent thing to do
• Our city benefits from these preparations even if we don´t need them for Y2k
• Our objectives are to; minimize the impact of Y2k, broaden the base of resources available throughout our town, and be as flexible and effective as we can in responding to problems

Here´s a link to a PowerPoint version of all this stuff that you´re welcome to review.  I´m going to take a look at this pitch in light of How Little Really Happened.  Some day.  I´m fascinated by the fact that noplace experienced the kind of problem that we were preparing our community for.  I think there´s a lesson for us in there somewhere. 

This was a site for community organizers who were interested in community preparedness project management.  Here I tried to maintain links to tools, workplans, tips, gossip and stories based on the community preparedness project we undertook here in St Paul.

For information about our approach to a city-wide community preparedness project, follow the link to Project Management section.

People interested in other Y2k sites with a community preparedness slant could follow the link to Learn about Y2k

Here's a set of daily Y2k news sites.

Here´s a place where those of us who were leading Y2k community preparation efforts in the Twin Cities traded information. 

I´m sure glad this Y2k stuff turned out to be a non-event.  I´m puzzled by the fact that nothing happened, anywhere, and may post some ruminations about that here.  It would seem that the "tech community" has some explaining to do.  The standard-responses ("there weren´t failures because of successful remediation") aren´t quite satisfactory.

But hey!  Thanks to all who helped.

Onward!

Mike O'Connor
              (January 1, 2000)

Contact info:

Box 8097
St. Paul, MN  55108
651-647-6109
Mike@haven.com