Generally, this area will be used for news and upcoming major events rather than posting monthly events as in the past.  Our calendar is intended as the “goto” place for those events, and can be committee specific.

Admittedly, not all aspects of this space have been entirely thought out.  Thus the use of the term “berth” in the title.  The concept for this site was borne during the trial period of our blog, where many lessons were learned, and there is much work yet to be done prior to prime-time.

Development began in the last week of August, 2017, with the purchase of the domain name www.aaservices.org *changed to www.areacommittees.org*   It was pointed at a server space, and I began putting the pieces together that you see here. My knowledge of web-design is growing daily.

As has been mentioned in other areas of this space, collaboration is the purpose of this site, and I am only one person.  Daily, I remind myself to not be “the director”, thus possibly excluding the vast experience and ideas of our members, which could bring in ideas and concepts previously not thought of.  I look forward to those discoveries.

All aspects of this site are open-source software, with user-friendly administration areas, so rotation (passing it on) is not accompanied with a steep learning curve.  Consultations over a term of some weeks should set an incoming member on course with comfort.

Next on deck is finding beta-testers to “run amok” and find the flaws and operational bottlenecks every site has but cannot be found until put out into the wild.  The important concept here is that it does not have to be perfect at first, it just has to work as a tool to reach the alcoholic that still suffers.

God willing, it will gain acceptance and support, and with that, become what it is intended to be.  The best our community has to offer.

RY,

Mike R.

*While in my opinion the original name remains entirely appropriate given the scope of what this site may become, www.areacommittees.org was deemed less “confusing” for users during the growth cycle. It was anticipated develop into subdomains such as edmonton.aaservices.org, or calgary aaservices.org, but on its own, it simply wouldn’t survive the peer scruitiny long enough to require the addition of the subdomain, and thus remove any question of association with aa.org.  So be it.

Group conscience is what it is, and it was changed. Sadly, this controversy transpired immediately preceeding the November Speakers’ Workshop, hampering a long anticipated launch to a large round of prospective speakers, but such is the learning curve, not to mention Gods’ will. Retention of the domain name is inexpensive, should it ever be desired to change it back. ***