Paul, That is interesting we might be able to have a good discussion about this in person. Nicholas and everyone else the week of 3/28 - 3/31 looks good for me. Maybe we should setup a lunch meeting somewhere that could accommodated all interested parties. Any suggestions?
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 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 > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
