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

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Clifford Rohde <ccr7@cornell.edu>
Date: July 25, 2005 8:50:29 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: RE: [IP] Hotspot ---> OpenPark.net, WiFi on the Mall


I'm a technophile and big believer in the advantages of readily  
available
communications media (including free to the public services). That  
said, why
would the public want this and shouldn't the burden be on its  
proponents to
prove it's a good thing rather than everyone else to prove it's a bad  
thing?
The Mall is a nice play to jog, stroll, fly a kite and even find, on
occasion, quiet solitude among the national monuments. There are
increasingly fewer public places to engage in such unplugged,  
unmechanized
activities, especially where most others present are unplugged.  
Opening our
public green spaces to laptops and more yammering (VOIP I suppose)  
phoners
seems a bit like opening wilderness trails to snowmobiles and ATVs.  
What am
I missing?

/cliff rohde

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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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