Public-facing is what I want. I might be free Friday for an hour. My life is super hectic right now. I should be studying for a math final, not daydreaming about universal internet access. On Mar 14, 2011 1:19 PM, "marbux" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Michael Miller > <[email protected]> wrote: >> We could have a lunch and learn meeting sometime next month >> for anyone who is interested. > > I'm interested. > > But I think one topic of discussion should be how to involve the > community to support it and counter lobbying from the ISPs. > > There are some sugar plums out there that might aid persuading a > university or other entity to build a public-facing project. From the > legal research I did during the efforts to persuade Google to select > this area as a testbed community for its gigabit-per-second networking > project, there are federal grants available for community broadband > projects. I haven't updated that research recently, but the grant > programs I looked at uniformly required that the broadband projects be > public-facing as opposed to closed-community facing. > > Best regards, > > Paul > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
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