[IP] Hotspot ---> OpenPark.net, WiFi on the Mall

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: John Scott <johnmscott@mindspring.com>
Date: July 25, 2005 6:27:40 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Cc: Greg Staple <info@openpark.net>
Subject: FW: Hotspot ---> OpenPark.net, WiFi on the Mall
Reply-To: johnmscott@mindspring.com


NEED SUPPORT!!!

Dave, for IP,

The Open Park initiative (www.openpark.net) is leading an effort to  
deploy hot spots
(for free) on the Mall in Washington DC, at no cost to the tax payer  
or the
Smithsonian (all hardware/software/bandwidth costs are being taken  
care of). All that
is needed is a little bit of roof space on top of a few of the  
Smithsonian Buildings.


Letters of support have been received from Congress and more recently  
Vint Cerf. We
need a final push of positive support from the inter-webs to let the  
Smithsonian
Board of Regents know that the public wants this and that its not a  
bad thing.

Letters to the Smithsonian should be directed to addresses at this  
link (with a CC to
info@openpark.net) : http://www.openpark.net/smithsonianContact.html :

Lawrence M. Small
Secretary
Smithsonian Institution
Castle Bldg., Room 205
1000 Jefferson Drive SW
Washington, DC 20560
smalll@si.edu
Fax: (202) 786-2515

Sheila P. Burke
Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer
Smithsonian Institution
Castle Bldg., Room 219
1000 Jefferson Drive SW
Washington, DC 20560
burkesp@si.edu
Fax: (202) 357-7031

Roger Sant
Chair, Smithsonian Board of Regents
Executive Committee
c/o The Summit Foundation
2100 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Suite 525
Washington, DC 20037
achupp@summitfdn.org
Fax: (202) 912-2901

Alan Spoon
Smithsonian Board of Regents
Executive Committee
c/o Polaris Venture Partners
1000 Winter Street
Suite 3350
Waltham, MA 02451
aspoon@polarisventures.com
Fax: (781) 290- 0880






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