On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Russell Senior <[email protected]>wrote:
> >>>>> "Michael" == Michael Dexter <[email protected]> writes: > > Michael> Hello all, > > Michael> A few of us talked about OSCON after the meeting last > Michael> night. PLUG will have one of the few dot org booths available > Michael> and we concluded that one of the best things we can do is to > Michael> promote Portland as a technology and community venue. I > Michael> envision a tri-fold brochure with categorized lists of > Michael> highlights and resources. > > Michael> Some great suggestions were made last night and I invite you > Michael> to brain dump your own ideas either to the list or me > Michael> directly. > > Michael> http://epdx.org offers some ideas but many are not open > Michael> source-related or in Portland. To kick things off in no > Michael> particular order: > > Michael> Small size with big-city industry Calagator/user group scene > Michael> No sales tax OSB and OSCON Free Geek Drupal Foundation Puppet > Michael> Labs Walmart Labs Japanese Gardens Chinese Gardens Powell's > Michael> Books Foodcarts Coffee and beer OMSI Intel Outdoors > Michael> activities Good public transportation Friendly environment > Michael> Award-winning airport > > Personal Telco Project (or, free wifi, generally) > > I don't travel enough to compare Portland first-hand to other places. > At one time I heard that free wifi was relatively rare in other > cities. Although we didn't directly create most of the free wifi > networks in town, we like to take credit for early advocacy and > action, and helping creating the expectation that wifi networks here > should be open and free to the end-user. > I was just in the Huston airport--no free wifi (except that for a time an advertiser was offering 45 minutes free.) > > I can tell you that PTP is one of the biggest and most active > community wireless networking projects left in the US. Small compared > to projects in Europe, but this isn't Europe. We also have crappy > public transportation and health insurance systems. > Compared to what? Who is We? > > We've been offered a booth at OSCON, though we need to get the > contract in to them in the next few days. > -- > Russell Senior, President > [email protected] -Denis _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
