[Ww-snww-regional-list] Some questions and some info

Robert Heller heller at deepsoft.com
Wed Mar 18 21:05:43 EDT 2015


At Wed, 18 Mar 2015 18:34:16 -0400 sregine at aol.com wrote:

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> Hi Robbie and Robbie,
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> In reviewing some emails, I realized that I never sent the spreadsheet we are using to collect contact information and plan our outreach.  I have attached a sample of the information we are including.  We are using BB committee members initials to indicate who will contact specific individuals.  You may have already come up with your own design but I thought I would share.
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> I have also attached the blurb that I submitted to the Swift River Current last week.
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> The Outreach locations attachment shows when and where we will have people from our Broadband Committee stationed to answer questions and sign folks up.  I know people from your town may not come this way much but you are welcome to share the information if you want.  
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> MaryEllen has found out that the Swift River PTCA meets tomorrow night at 6:30pm.  We plan to have someone from our BB committee attend unless you folks have someone who has a connection to the school.  Let us know if you do, as that would probably be even more effective. 
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> You mentioned holding a movie night at your library.  Our library does not have as fast a connection as yours and would not be as suitable a site for a streaming demonstration. Would we be able to advertise your movie/demonstration night to our townspeople?

We have not planned anything *specific* yet, but yes, once we have decided 
what and when, sure we would be happy to have people from neighboring towns 
come and 'experience' what high speed Internet can do.

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> At one point you asked Shutesbury about when they were going to have people at their library to answer questions and do signups. I never saw a response, did you hear back?  As you mentioned, it might be a convenient location for the valley commuters from our towns.
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> We have asked Shutesbury about having out BB comm members attend their info sessions on Thursday 3/26 at 7 and Sat 3/28 at 9 and they have said we would be welcome.  They stressed that the information will be specific to Shutesbury so we are not sharing these dates with the public in New Salem...but some of our BB comm. will be there to hear the presentation and to hear the questions that come up.

The dates for Shutesbury's info meetings were posted to the Wendell Townsfolk
list and I encurraged Wendellites to go, if they were interested and did not
want to wait until mid April for a Wendell-specific info meeting. *I* think it
can be worthwhile for interested people from the other towns to go to the
Shutesbury events. People have various different schedules and whatnot, so
events in neighboring towns might fit some people's schedules. Much of the
information is really common to all of our towns -- the only thing that might
vary are the exact numbers, but in any case the numbers are roughly in the
same range.  It is also a good time to get to know members of the WW EC and 
put faces to names -- most of our townspeople probably see Wired West as 
another 'faceless' organization.  I think it might help some people if they 
can meet some of the *people* behind Wired West.

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> Do you know anymore about the availability of signs and/or high def graphics for signs? What are you doing for signs at present?  If there are no signs available I will try to create some for use at our General Store and the Transfer Station this weekend.  I will share the design if I end up having to do that.

The high res graphics hopefully should be up on the Wired West website Real 
Soon Now (TM).  

Lawn/Yard Signs should be in production.  Contact Glenn Cardinal -- he should 
have a supply by now.  It is probably too early to actually put any signs in 
yards, but they can probably be used on other ways in the meantime.

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> The FAQ piece does not appear to be on the WW website yet - unless I am missing it.  Do you want us to pass along to you the questions we are hearing - as well as our responses?

There is a FAQ on the WW Delegate Wiki: 
http://wiredwestdelegates.net/mw/index.php?title=Main_Page
As an alternate, you *should* have access.

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> Let us know your thoughts.
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> Kathy Soule-Regine 

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