This seems totally on topic to me, and knee-jerk conservative attacks seem like the crap I'd like to see off the list. On Jun 23, 2005, at 4:09 AM, Matthew S. Hallacy wrote: > Some might also say that municipal wifi is communist. How about we > keep this crap off the list? > > > On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 02:36:12AM -0500, Tim Erickson wrote: >> At 2:00 AM -0500 6/23/05, <mgenelin at fastcomputerserviceco.com> wrote: >>> With all due respect, is this on-topic for this list? What does this >>> have >>> to >>> do with WiFi? >> >> Good point. I should have elaborated. >> >> In attending conferences and meetings on E-Democracy or >> E-Deliberation, I'm finding increasing interest in the issue of >> municipal WiFi projects, such as what is being proposed in >> Minneapolis (and also St. Paul). >> >> Some might say, that municipal WiFi systems are the infrastructure >> for the E-Democracy of the future (or at least one possibility). I >> know, that as a member of E-Democracy.Org - I'm very interested in >> the WiFi project being proposed in St. Paul and feel as if this is >> something that E-Democracy activists need to pay close attention to. >> >> Its been my impression, that this group is very interested in public >> accessible WiFi networks. To me, this is very relevant to the work >> that I do in the field of E-Democracy. That's why I've followed this >> list for the last year or two. >> >> I know at least one of the guests at this International E-Democracy >> event is very interested in city wide WiFi networks and would love to >> chat about what is happening in Mpls. Bob Carlitz of Information >> Renaissance. >> >> I hope that this helps, >> >> Tim Erickson >> E-Democracy.Org >> 651-643-0722 >> >> >> -- >> ================================================= >> Tim Erickson http://www.politalk.com >> St. Paul, MN - USA 651-643-0722 >> tim at politalk.com iChat/AIM: stpaultim >> ================================================= >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Twin Cities Wireless Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, >> Minnesota >> tcwug-list at tcwug.org >> http://mailman.tcwug.org/mailman/listinfo/tcwug-list > > -- > Matthew S. Hallacy > http://www.poptix.net GPG public key > 0x01938203 > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Wireless Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, > Minnesota > tcwug-list at tcwug.org > http://mailman.tcwug.org/mailman/listinfo/tcwug-list > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2551 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tcwug-list/attachments/20050623/279dc078/attachment-0001.bin