Dene says, "Of course, the answer lay in the notion expressed by our conference theme, "Evolution, Revolution, and Implementation: Computers and Writing for Global Change." We had to change the conference organization in order to emphasize and draw attention to the various threads or strands of thought originating from within and outside our community.
For me, representing all presentations in equal measure in a conference program, no matter what different perspectives they take, suggests some sort of implied homogeneity that really doesn't exist. Could we deliver this notion of sameness to our community, a community that shares many pedagogical beliefs and technological interests but one that also prides itself for its distinctiveness and individualism? More importantly, did we really want to? A politics of inclusion, at least for us, does not imply uniformity but equal gravity, and access to expression.

So amid this theorizing and philosophizing were born the Strands."