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["Greg Brown" <gwbrown1 AT gmail.com>]

Nighborhood Wi-Fi would be a great start.  I've always been a fan of that.  A 'hood website would be nice as well.

What "qualifies" as a neighborhood?  Can a cluster of condo buildings that are on their own street w/no other houses or businesses qualify as a neighborhood?

Greg

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Mark Turner <jmarkturner AT gmail.com> wrote:

So, a friend at the City of Raleigh has been encouraging me to organize my (new) neighborhood so that it can become eligible for a Neighborhood Improvement Grant of up to $2500.

The grants are meant to improve neighborhoods (duh). Most projects are long the lines of putting up signs in the neighborhood, organizing a community watch, adding new landscaping, etc. Being a geek, I thought I'd see what might be done with technology.

So, I'll put it out to my fellow geeks: how would you geekify your neighborhood with a grant? Set up a community network (WiFi or otherwise)? Design and host a website for the community? Buy security systems and make it a gated community (kidding, of course)? How would you use technology to improve *your* neighborhood?

--
Mark
www.markturner.net
(who still has a Great Raleigh Home for sale at www.GreatRaleighHome.com, in case you were wondering. heh)




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