Minneapolis Municipal Wi-fi: Upcoming Events and Info
The Bridge reports that the first of several informational meetings on the city-wide wireless network is tomorrow from 5:30 to 7:00 4:30 to 6:00 at the Minneapolis Central Library in the Doty Board Room. The meetings are geared toward specific neighborhoods as the wireless network is gradually rolled out. Tomorrow’s meeting is for Downtown-East, Cedar-Riverside, and Seward. My neighborhood’s not coming up anytime soon, so I probably won’t be going, but I am curious to know what kind of info is being presented.
The Bridge article also mentions that “Free access to community-created content and links to public websites and online resources will also be made available.” This is one of 9 requirements in the Minneapolis WiFi Community Benefit Agreement. As I said over at Technology Evangelist, I wonder if/how the existing neighborhood organization websites will be integrated into this. Some community organizations have great websites and some might as well not even exist.
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It would be great is someone put together a content management system for Minneapolis community websites. I think that’s the aim, but I think plans are vague on that point today.
Erica, The meeting at the library on Thursday, 6/13 starts at 4 and goes to 6:30. http://urltea.com/mzq
In terms of what’s going to be included in the community portals, it would be great to have bloggers like yourself attend. I talked about that here: http://urltea.com/rku
Oops. Thanks for the info. Should have checked those facts a little better.
Not sure I’m available tomorrow, but I know there is another one coming up pretty soon. Looks like the meeting for my area is in July.
I blew it too in my last comment. It’s Thursday, 6/14 (today).
The plan is for US Internet to provide a content-management-system but as Ed states, it’s vague right now. To start with, I think there will be five portals that represent the five Wi-Fi areas (could be six, I get confused). How this all works and the content guidelines are all under discussion via a ‘portal-content/walled garden’ committee created by the just-ended Digital Inclusion Task Force and the newly-minted Digital Inclusion Fund Advisory Board. (I’m part of both.)