The Jedi Resource Center
In the year of 1999 a small group of Jedi felt a desire to bring the Jedi from their online community to the real life world. A chance to meet people face to face, to train offline, to be something more than just simple texts and words on a computer screen and to share in real comradeship.
After many trials and uncertainties the first Jedi Gathering was born in the year of 2002
Ever since, Gatherings have been held every year to this very day.
Moonshadow. An aspiring and dedicated Jedi took the reins and pushed for one gathering after another
these gatherings have been hosted in various states over the years and they only grew bigger and better.
With the success of Gatherings Moonshadow felt a need to centralize her work and encourage others to host their own gatherings
With the help of web master Xhaiden, The Jedi Resource Center was born. It had, everything!
Information pages, forums, calendars, photo albums, video albums, world maps, applications and many interested members.
For many years the Jedi Resource Center made it's mark and the Gatherings continued to grow.
After many years of hosting Gatherings. Moonshadow found herself pulling further and further into the offline world
and dealing with her own personal growth and advancement. Without her guidance and the new features of Facebook becoming a popular and vastly used medium for communication, the forums became empty and the website eventually became archived.
After many trials and uncertainties the first Jedi Gathering was born in the year of 2002
Ever since, Gatherings have been held every year to this very day.
Moonshadow. An aspiring and dedicated Jedi took the reins and pushed for one gathering after another
these gatherings have been hosted in various states over the years and they only grew bigger and better.
With the success of Gatherings Moonshadow felt a need to centralize her work and encourage others to host their own gatherings
With the help of web master Xhaiden, The Jedi Resource Center was born. It had, everything!
Information pages, forums, calendars, photo albums, video albums, world maps, applications and many interested members.
For many years the Jedi Resource Center made it's mark and the Gatherings continued to grow.
After many years of hosting Gatherings. Moonshadow found herself pulling further and further into the offline world
and dealing with her own personal growth and advancement. Without her guidance and the new features of Facebook becoming a popular and vastly used medium for communication, the forums became empty and the website eventually became archived.
The Gathered Force Community
After a long stretch of silence and the JRC community being archived. Gatherings began it's adventures on the Facebook Social Media. It quickly became a quick, easy and convenient method of communication to keep both members active and involved as well as keep them updated without the usual forum hopping that was done years before.
While Facebook is still a major role in the community, it still lacked many important applications that would help keep the community informed of past, present and future gatherings and offline meet-ups. It was when one of our Knights casually mentioned in conversation that "The Gathered Community will decide." that this community was born. Taking these casual words, The Keeper took a couple hours of time to create "The Gathered Force Community" website and forum just to see how it would look, once it's framework was in place she took the product to Moonshadow leader of JRC and other gathering leaders for approval.
To this day Gathered Force Community slowly works as a new generation of it's old foundations from the Jedi Resource Center.
While Facebook is still a major role in the community, it still lacked many important applications that would help keep the community informed of past, present and future gatherings and offline meet-ups. It was when one of our Knights casually mentioned in conversation that "The Gathered Community will decide." that this community was born. Taking these casual words, The Keeper took a couple hours of time to create "The Gathered Force Community" website and forum just to see how it would look, once it's framework was in place she took the product to Moonshadow leader of JRC and other gathering leaders for approval.
To this day Gathered Force Community slowly works as a new generation of it's old foundations from the Jedi Resource Center.