I believe we did contact the Park Board. If I remember right, they were not interested in working with us. We will still move on the Loring park wireless project and what ever projects the group wants to work on. Andrew. ________________________________ From: tcwug-list-bounces at tcwug.org on behalf of Leif Pihl Sent: Fri 1/16/2004 2:30 PM To: tcwug-list at tcwug.org Subject: [TCWUG] 7th Question: Minneapolis Park & Rec'n Board's RFP (deadline, etc.) TCWUG-ers: As a part of composing the earlier six messages, and learning about the Loring Park project, I thought: Hey, why don't I propose this as a larger project to the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board? So, I called them up, and found out that one of the Commissioners, the VP in fact, has already proposed this, a "RFP" has gone out, and two or three proposals have come in. "Netsurf.cc" and "Airwrx" have already put forward proposals, and "Nortel" is expected to before today's deadline. Unfortunately, so far as I know, * NOBODY at the MP&RB thought to consult with the TCWUG, and/or send us the RFP. <and> * TODAY (Friday Jan 16th, 2004 at 4:00 pm) is the deadline for submitting a proposal. Hmmmmm... Sounds too late to me for us to get involved, at least on the DOING end of things. _BUT_ I understand that it MAY not be too late for us to get involved on the evaluation end of things. LETS SPEAK UP!!! I suggest inviting to our February 10th meeting: - Commissioner John Erwin <erwin001 at umn.edu> of the MP&RB, - Mr. Bill Beck <Bill.Beck at ci.minneapolis.mn.us> of the City of Minneapolis' IT Department and possibly - Mr. Don Siggelkow <dsiggelkow at minneapolisparks.org>, Staff person for the MP&RB who is dealing with the RFP in question. - In my own case, I am represented by Commisioner Marie Hauzer <Marieh at visi.com> of the 3rd District, so I'd like to personally invite her as well. >>> WHAT DO YOU SAY??? Should we invite these people to the meeting >>>so that we can exchange views, information, questions, etc... in >>>BOTH directions? leif at pihl.us -- _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Wireless Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.tcwug.org tcwug-list at tcwug.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tcwug-list -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 5792 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tcwug-list/attachments/20040116/fa160d13/attachment.bin -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Wireless Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.tcwug.org tcwug-list at tcwug.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tcwug-list