They will change only after they are convinced that the sharing and collaboration can help them and not harm them. Specific time line projections may be nearly inappropriate and counterproductive. It is wholly appropriate to have a vision, goals, and a rough time line. Each milestone can be celebrated, but a good project will have a vision that expands as quickly as the project. The main criteria for success are people, skills, and organizations rather than technology.
Technology plays a necessary, but vastly overstated, role in community projects.
For example, for three years the school district's main web server was a 4-year old castoff computer running shareware web server software. One of the main benefits is the atmosphere of collaboration and the personal contacts and relationships that such a project creates among the separate organizations that make up the educational and cultural fabric of a community. Personnel costs to maintain the learning systems are minimal, but the costs to create the learning activities are highly variable depending upon the pool of talent and volunteers. Content specialists turned out be an uncompromisable expense, while web workers could be composed more of volunteers and students. This staffing concept was successful.