The academy includes a professional recording studio and performing space, part of Red Bull's international network of music workshops and concerts that it has organized since 1995 in cities from New York to Berlin to promote its brand.
The transformation, evident in an offensive late last month that chased many of Colonel Qaddafi's forces from Misurata's center to its outskirts, is in part the result of a hidden side of this lopsided ground war: a clandestine network of rebel workshops, where these makeshift weapons have been designed, assembled and pushed out.
Here's how it works: Once Ortega has approved a design for a new Zara blouse, say, or skirt, fabric is cut into pieces and distributed to a network of small workshops mostly in Galicia and in northern Portugal.
In spite of differences, all the Ik-style ceramics are thought to have been made within a network of allied workshops dedicated to producing vessels for use in the banquets of the aristocracy of Motul de San José and of the petty nobility of the capital's satellites.
Pushing up from below is an emerging, more specialized brand of music theater, taught in a thriving network of schools and workshops, that keeps one eye planted on tradition and whose greatest talent is Mr. Guettel, whose score for "The Light in the Piazza" won the Tony last season.
Essentially an extended family, with Wolfe and Gordon married to each other and Lang living nearby, they run an open-ended network of concerts, summer workshops, recording projects, and commissioning series, not to mention the annual Bang on a Can marathon, which has been exciting and exhausting audiences since 1987.
A former Green Beret, Hatch is the kind of guy who can build a PCB in the morning and run a million-dollar network of amazing technology workshops in the afternoon.
Funds can be budgeted for "collaborative activities, such as short visits among member laboratories, exchange of visits of students, sharing of unique facilities, network retreats, and partial support of workshops uniquely tied to the network activities, etc".
Therefore, the NRENs should ensure that the community is kept up to date with the evolution of networks through the organization of workshops and conferences, and the participants in these events should be members of institutional management, and the information technology staff.
There are grand plans for a network of face-to-face workshops, but these will be limited until more teachers can be rolled-out globally.
