[NBLUG/talk] OT: Re: Reminder: Sebastopol Downtown WiFi Meeting Tonight

[Robert P. Thille]

Augie Schwer wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Robert P. Thille
> <list-nblug-talk at rangat.org> wrote:
>> Augie Schwer wrote:
>>  > So what happened? I hear Sebastopol is a Wi-Fi Free Zone now.  --Augie
>>  What happened is that (almost) everyone who showed up for the meeting
>>  was against the Wi-Fi, and so the city council members who were for
>>  Wi-Fi but who are also (unfortunately) political creatures did the
>>  political thing and voted against the Wi-Fi.
> 
> I saw the story hit the AP wire and spread pretty fast on the Tech.
> Blogs and local paper:
> 
> http://corp.sonic.net/blog/2008/03/23/sebastopol-voids-wi-fi-contract/
> http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/article/20080324/NEWS/803240351/1033/NEWS&template=kart
> http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/article/20080324/NEWS/803240314/1033/NEWS&template=kart
> http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2008/03/power-of-fears.html
> http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/03/hazards-of-wifi.html

Slashdotted!

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/26/0118237

It also got picked up the the San Francisco Chronicle.

:-)

Robert


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