I hope you all read Larry Lessig's recent commentary on Wired that was quite good. Send it off to your state legicritter too. Throw in some extra bio on Larry, too. (like a link to his website, or a quip on how west wing protrayed him recently, or perhaps not.) http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.03/view.html?pg=5 Theres even a podcast! :) This is the sort of discussion we need to be starting at the state level now so the telcos can't come in and decide to end-run the locals by bringing the state in. * Ben Kochie <ben at nerp.net> [050223 22:16]: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I am hoping we can push community involvement too.. the city of > minneapolis wants <monopoly of their choice> to install the > infrastructure. The reason for this is because they both got burned by > richocet and their rusting hardware. Hopefuly we can avoid this with St. > Paul. Unfortunately, several named monopolies, mostly comcast and qwest > both scream "BUT OUR JOBS" when people talk about city-wide wifi.. but > neither are smart enough to attempt doing it themselvs. > > - -ben > > "Unix is user friendly, Its just picky about its friends." > > On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Haudy Kazemi wrote: > > >I'm interested in this...is Jon Kerr the person to talk to about getting > >involved, or is this more of a 'closed' group? I'm certainly for this > >project, provided it doesn't become something run by (insert private > >monopoly of choice here). I definitely do not want to see something like > >has happened in Philadelphia where the city is not allowed to do public > >wireless (IIRC this prohibtion came at the behest of Verizon). > > > >-hk > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFCHVOwfYg2asD844oRAkxPAJ9+3cyPYxhWgY7HMG7RaWajBTo0IgCffze7 > EZ7lpaFB+HKZ9vIKFb+MoSQ= > =+HVI > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Wireless Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, > Minnesota > tcwug-list at tcwug.org > http://mailman.tcwug.org/mailman/listinfo/tcwug-list > -- Scott Dier <dieman at ringworld.org> KC0OBS http://www.ringworld.org/ -- http://www.railworks.org/ -- http://publictransportation.org/ -- Stop "playing political splat ball," support the Northstar Train!