Posted on September 28, 2006 at 3:30 PM in @earthlink
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I'm headed to San Francisco next week for the first two of eleven public neighborhood forums EarthLink and Google are holding about the city Wi-Fi project. The goal of the meetings is to tell you more about our proposal and hear your ideas. The first meeting will be held on October 3 at the Ocean Avenue Presbyterian Church at 32 Ocean Ave. between Mission and Alemany, and the second will be October 4 at Southeast Community Facility at 1800 Oakdale Ave. at Phelps St. Both will start at 6 p.m.
If you have questions or ideas about the plan, it'll be a great opportunity to meet people from EarthLink and Google in person (and yours truly) and be a part of the conversation. There's more information and a full schedule here.
Comments
What about Philly????
It's like lets find out about all other places then Philly...
hmmm....
Posted by Ben | September 28, 2006 5:16 PM
Ben: We're very excited about the Philly project. We're working on building the first part of the network right now, and we're also working with Wireless Philadelphia to engage with the local communities. We'll be providing more details in the upcoming weeks and months.
Posted by Dave C. | September 29, 2006 1:52 PM
I'm really excited for Cit-wide wifi to come in, but you have to wonder if places like Starbucks and Barnes and Nobles sales will dent if they don't sell WiFI.
Posted by Judson | September 29, 2006 2:18 PM
I tried the links today. The church site is new and most of the content is still placeholder stuff. The link for the community center leads to a "page no longer exists" message. Huh.
Posted by SheriVan | September 30, 2006 8:21 PM
Judson: Those hotspots won't go away; what would happen is you'd have a choice of provider when you're in an area serviced by more than one network. I think wherever there are reading materials and coffee there will always be people. It'll be interesting to see if citywide wi-fi brings more outdoor meetings in public parks in climates that can support it.
SheriVan: Thanks for the heads up on the broken link. I'll check on that. The main info page for the meetings ( http://www.wififorsf.net/ )does work fine and has all of the venue information as well as maps.
Posted by Dave C. | October 2, 2006 10:03 AM