"We sent out our first newsletter encouraging people to reach out to their friends and sign on.
It wasn't until 1977 that the first newsletter about home schooling, "Growing Without Schooling," by John Holt, was published and a verifiable movement was born.
She posted her first newsletter on Facebook, reaching about 350 friends; now she posts it on a civic engagement site and estimates it reaches about 35,000 people.
Speaking to issues not addressed by the Committee on Undergraduate Residential Life, it has already issued its first newsletter under the title of BICEPS (Brotherhood and Inter-Class Cooperation Entering Princeton Speedily).
"We feel that pay toilets are unjust infringements on our basic human rights," explained Michael Gessel in the first newsletter of the Committee to End Pay Toilets in America (Ceptia), an activist group formed in 1970.
"What prompted me to write the first newsletter was an inquiry from the house counsel of an American corporate client about a new French law on consumer warranties," he wrote in January 1998.
When LAFF's founders invited Mr. Thomas to write a piece for its first newsletter and sought the foundation's staff mailing list and use of its offices, he rebuffed them.
He is an advocate for free universal access to knowledge and tools, and a veteran Wikipedian, founding the project's first newsletter and translator network, and organizing last year's international Wikimedia conference in Cambridge.
The first newsletter will go out to everyone who has a registered CrunchBase user account with an email address.
College2Startups is obviously still in the very early stages, though it has racked up over 3,200 subscribers in lead up to the first newsletter, which went out last week.
