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["Lyman Green" <lymang AT gmail.com>]

I would love to see the City of Durham do the same thing.  I'm not sure $2500 would do much towards any of the things I desire though.  I am curious - what would $2500 do for neighborhood WiFi?  Access points?  Would the city pay for the bandwidth?  Where would the bw come from?

 

I would love to see fiber or something in the communication infrastructure upgraded.  <shrug>  It just doesn't seem like a lot of money to do much with.

 

Lyman

 

On 3/24/08, 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?

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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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