I think this is cool. I have had some plans drawn up for about a year now to have the Vermilion Parish Library blanket downtown Abbeville with WiFi. Since we are providing the service, it would still have to be filtered, but I find that our filter doesn't block much it's not supposed to. I totally agree with the last line of the article too ""If there's one group that is always making money, even in a bad economy, it's lawyers,". Most of the useage here in abbeville, would probably be the lawyers downtown. I would also like to direct some signal over to the Coffee Tavern too, so I can finally get some net access over there. ;)
Adam J. Melancon ----Original Message Follows---- From: John Hebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [email protected] To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]> CC: Technical Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [brlug-general] BR Advocate article about plan to put WI-FI downtown Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 15:23:08 -0500 Wow! The BRLUG should contact these individuals to offer our expertise. Any interest? John Hebert > PLAN COVERS DOWNTOWN WITH WI-FI > An economic development official and some members of > high-tech businesses have begun a push to create a > wireless, high-speed computer network covering all > of downtown. > > If it happens soon, proponents told the Downtown > Development District on Tuesday that Baton Rouge > would be among the leading edge of cities with > wireless Internet access -- known as Wi-Fi -- > available from anywhere in its central business > district. > > "Wi-Fi is the perfect way to put Baton Rouge on the > map," said Don Powers, executive director of the > Capital Region Competitive Strategy, The Chamber of > Greater Baton Rouge's economic development > initiative for various targeted industries. > > http://www.2theadvocate.com/stories/070903/bus_wifi001.shtml _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus
