SalsaNet seeks to provide the leadership, vision, and advocacy efforts necessary to educate the public and engender a healthy and receptive environment to Digital Convergence in the Alamo Area. Providing a forum and open source environment to not only the region's creative capitol, but through ISOC (the Internet Society) to the global market, will enhance and guide to position Central Texas and the Alamo Area as a dominant player in Digital Media Convergence.

History of SalsaNet...

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What is Digital Convergence?

What is the Creative Class?

2005 Officers and Boards

Mission Statement

Salsa.Net represents a unique mixture of peoples, cultures, and trades that form our community, and in doing so takes action to: provide vision and leadership to develop a regional information environment; educate the community on the values and particulars of telecommunications; encourage and enable area residents to use telecommunications; expand the means of educational and governmental access; provide a forum for the discussion of public policy related to information access; and, provide a stimulus for economic development.

Officers

• President and CEO - Dean McCall
• Vice President - Sloan Foster
• Sec/Treasurer - Susan Ives
• President Emeritus - Pleas McNeel

Board of Directors

• Mike Adrian - Producer, HDNet
• W.B. Barker Ph.D. - Ehrenberg Chesler
• Jim Brazell - Principal, VentureRamp
• Alex Cavalli - Deputy Director, IC2
• Jon Lebkowsky - CEO, Polycot Consulting
• George Cisneros - Urban-15
• Cat Wilson - Executive VP Creative Services, Regnier Valdez
• Sean Dooley - VP of Business Operations, The Schriever Institute
• Philip Nelson - Senior Director Woldwide Video Marketing, Newtek
• Randy Goldsmith - CEO, SATAI
• Bruce Howard - UTSA Employer Relations Advisor
• Dr Francis X Kane, Ph.D. - USAF (Ret)
• Dean McCall - President, SalsaNet
• Grant Pimpler - Chief Creative Officer/VP, Critical Mass
• Jonathan E. Schmidt - Executive Vice-President, Business DevelopmentPerfTech
• John Taboada, Ph.D. - Taboada Research Inc.
• Terry Weakley - Wifi-SA/NuMedia Group Inc

Advisory Board

• James Bower, Ph.D. - CEO & Chairman of the Board, Numedeon
• Lyn Belisle - Trinty Computer Science
• Dr. Rajendra V. Boppana - UTSA Computer Science
• Mary Ellen Burns - Senior Community Investments Associate and Director, Research, United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County
• Dr. Corey Carbonara - Professor, Baylor Telecommunications
• Ernest Domel - Director, Technology Development Education
• Bill Gonzalez - Web-Hed Technologies Inc.
• Joe Gwathmey - President & CEO, Texas Public Radio
• Rev. Ann Helmke - Animating Director, peaceCENTER
• John T. Hill - President/CEO, CFCTI
• Susan Ives - President, Alamo PC
• Phil Jackson
• Kurt Menking - GIS Manager, Bexar Appraisal District
• Dr. Terry Mikiten - Professor and Associate Dean, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, UTHSC at San Antonio (ret.)
• Richard Murphy - SwRI
• Philip Nelson - Senior Director - Video Marketing, NewTek
• John B. Poston, P.E. - President, ContractTech / President, SACCESS
• Danny Sharon - Adolos Strategic
• John M. Taboada, Ph.D. - Taboada Research Inc.
• Charles Vaughn - SVP Telecommunications, KLRN-TV
• Trevor Wood - The Wood Agency
• John Woody
• Cliff Zintgraff - Principal, Green Sky Consulting
• Brain Champion - SwRI
• Dr. Ernest Franke - SwRI Automation and Data Systems Division
• Deborah J. Kaercher, MPH - Vice President, Network SA
• Daryl L Lindsdale, Jr. - Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. - Legal Counsel
• Tom Nador - Laszlo Rain