First Time for Everything

I don’t remember the first time I ever saw the Internet, however I do remember attempting to introduce my Great Uncle Patti to the Internet a few years ago at his home in Florida.  Unfortunately, he was more interested in the small green power light on the side of the laptop than the actual Internet for some reason that day.

Missy and I have been working for about a month and a half with a group of women and men here in Guadalajara, who are forming a cooperative of Otomi artisans, to eventually sell their beautiful products worldwide.  The women, who are indigenous Otomi from the central Mexican state of Querétaro, sell homemade potato chips in the city center, but are highly skilled weavers and embroiderers.
On each of their bi-weekly meetings, I have been shooting hundreds of pictures and recording several hours of video, and Missy has begun designing a beautiful website for the group, which we got to show off this past week.  Not only was this the first time the group had ever seen the Internet, but they got to see it on a site about themselves.  I also realized they may be some of the few people in the world that skipped web 1.0 and started with 2.0.
Missy made a short presentation to the group, who seemed to love the logo for the site, called MNINI, which is the name of a gathering place in their Pueblo, and giggled while watching their video interviews.  We have a lot of work left on the site, including more photography, video, design and information gathering, but it is well on its way.
Above is a video of our presentation of the site to them.