Amicitia Romae

I am going to officially launch Amicitia to some of my students here soon. In fact, some of them may be reading this very post (salve, discipuli discipulaeque!). I want to launch this for several reasons - one, I want to stay in touch with my students as I am curious to see how things turn out for them and two, I would like to continue to teach Latin to them in some capacity.

I am working on forming a company to teach Latin online, but it is a project that will not start to take shape probably until after school is out. Keep posted on those updates here.

In the meantime, create an account and navigate around - I want to test this system for bugs and make sure everything is working.

Once you have joined Amicitia, remember to update your profiles. Much like any other social networking platform, Facebook, Myspace, etc., you want to have the latest data about you on the network so everyone can stay in touch.

I also know how much of a pain it can be to update your information over several sites. That is why we are installing a plugin that will allow you to use your OpenID to create an account here. Stay tuned as I will update everyone on that project.

Once you have joined Amicitia, remember to update your profiles. Much like any other social networking platform, Facebook, Myspace, etc., you want to have the latest data about you on the network so everyone can stay in touch.

I also know how much of a pain it can be to update your information over several sites. That is why we are installing a plugin that will allow you to use your OpenID to create an account here. Stay tuned as I will update everyone on that project.

In this current economic situation, it is critical that supporters of Latin come together. What is at stake is the future of classical studies in our country and right now, educational institutions are trying to wiggle free of any and all financial entaglements in order to become more efficient. Of course, with bureaucracies come bureaucrats, but we have to find incentives for these institutions to continue to support the study of Latin, ancient Greek and any other subject related to classical studies.

The idea for this social network is to utilize technology in a more efficient manner in order for us to mobilize and communicate more effectively. I welcome any suggestions or comments to this end that might help us achieve this goal here at Romae.

Testing the blogging system for the Amicitia.