Hi. I'm Conor, and I haven't made a peep since joining this list a few
weeks ago.
I moved up here to Portland at the end of July, and I've noticed that if
there's anything people like up here, it's branding. So to answer your
question, Michael, how about a bunch of stickers? Or a low-budget campaign
that twists the ubiquitous Comcast advertising? You could leave flyers in
the places where people use the service.
- Conor
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Michael Weinberg <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Don Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Russell Senior
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> It might be possible in some instances to replace the nucabs with
> >> something cheaper than an alix, such as one of our Netgear WGT634U.
> >> That is true, however:
> >
> > PTP has a sizable stash of WGTs. i still use a PTP node every day
> > (Urban Grind NW), and I am convinced the splash pages cause more
> > trouble than they're worth. the essid of www.personaltelco.net is a
> > great way to get branding/awareness. noone reads the EULA and its
> > legal standing is dubious. I suggest nucabs be replaced with WGTs with
> > no captive portal. Remote debugging and usage tracking can be done
> > with ssh and iptables. It costs $0 to implement.
>
> Without a splash page, we would not have the option of doing
> fundraising drives (which we've done in the past) and we'd lose the
> link to donate (which people do use).
>
> What is the problem with the splash page (other than the issues with
> WifiDog+WGT that Russell mentioned)?
>
> Would adding a social/interactive component improve your view of the
> splash page? I think you hang out with a lot of the tech types that
> I'd love to see helping PTP, so I'd like to know if there's something
> we could do to engage them that we aren't doing now.
>
> --
> Michael Weinberg
> President
> Personal Telco Project, Inc.
> A 501(c)(3) Non-Profit
>
> >
>
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