Join the Portland nonprofit technology community for a presentation by Mary Beth Henry about the new PDX Broadband Strategic Plan and discuss the future of Portland’s communications development, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Mercy Corp Action Center: http://www.meetup.com/netsquared-13/events/17571236/ http://calagator.org/events/1250460571
A public meeting to discuss the draft of Portland Broadband Strategic Plan has been scheduled for June 29 from noon to 3pm at the Portland Building. Here is a calagator link to the event. http://calagator.org/events/1250460630 If you can, please attend and let the City know what you think. Your persistent input is ESSENTIAL to getting [...]
Please read on for complete details on the release of Hopworks’ Gigabit IPA. Portland Brews Up “Gigabit IPA” To Attract Google’s Fast Gigabit Fiber Network To Portland Google-inspired IPA will be introduced to the public from 4pm to 6pm, Friday, April 2, 2010, at Portland’s Green Dragon, where the city’s geeks and creatives meet for [...]
Teresa Boze writes: An invitation to the Beer and Blog and the Creative Community to celebrate wiki’s 15th Birthday, and PDXfiber’s 1Gb 1st. “We changed the way the way software code was done world wide because I could”- Ward Cunningham, Wiki inventor. The small miracle under Ward Cunningham’s desk that became wiki began 15 years [...]
Personal Telco is having its weekly meeting at Amnesia Brewing tomorrow (Wednesday 3/24, at 6:30 pm until 8 or 9). Consider it another chance to get together and talk about ways to keep pushing PDX Fiber forward: http://wiki.personaltelco.net/WeeklyMeeting20100324
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 3/17/2010 Portland Attempts World Record to get Google’s attention. World’s longest “Telephone Game” needs only 700 people. A group of citizens are organizing the world’s longest “Telephone Game” as an attempt to get the attention of Google. The Technology giant has put out a Request For Information (RFI) to municipalities who may [...]
We’ll be handing out Green for Fiber ribbons to community fiber supporters before the council meeting Wednesday morning. So arrive early and be sure to let us know you’re there to support fiber. You’ll know us by our ribbons:
Mary Beth Henry, Deputy Director of the Office of Cable Communications and Franchise Management, sent us this message about tomorrow’s city council meeting: Just a reminder about the Google Resolution at the upcoming Portland City Council meeting on Wednesday March 17 at 10:30 am. It would be great if testimony reflected the wide variety of [...]