Here! here! Josh has got it right. Fastest way to get nothing done and spend a lot of money is to form a committee. If city governments want to get involved in this wireless stuff they have to stop treating it like some black box fairness thing and instead treat it like any other city road building or sewer project. Earl ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh Welch" <josh at joshwelch.com> To: "Twin Cities Wireless Users Group List" <tcwug-list at tcwug.org> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 10:52 AM Subject: Re: [TCWUG] Article: City Takes First Step Toward Citywide WirelessSystem > Ben Nelson wrote: > > For the complete text: http://www.mplsobserver.com/ > > -- > > Ben Nelson > > 612.685.9116 cell > > benmgroup at earthlink.net > > > > 1. $500 Million seems like a really high number to make this happen. > > 2. The idea of running this thing via a collaborative board of > "representatives from government, business, citizens, and other > stakeholders" seems like a guaranteed path to a screw up. Own it or > outsource it, pick one. > > Josh > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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