Meeting with Mayor Narkewicz
We had a good meeting Monday with Mayor David Narkewicz and Antonio Pagan, the city’s Chief Information Officer, on our proposed community network for Northampton. The mayor is definitely not …
A good Chamber of Commerce meeting today
This morning we met with the Greater Northampton Chamber of Commerce’s Economic Development Committee to discuss a community network for Northampton. Curiously two members of the City Council are on …
Our OpEd is published!
If you get the Daily Hampshire Gazette, you will find it on the editorial page in today’s edition (Tuesday, May 8). You can read it online here.
The big lie
The Institute for Local Self-Reliance (sponsors of muninetworks.org) have a lot of very good videos. This 2:30 one is definitely worth your time and succinctly shows why private sector solutions …
Coalition meeting update
Thursday we met at Northampton Community TV. Some of of the stuff we discussed: Upcoming meeting with Mayor Narkewicz. Yes, it is possible to see the mayor but it takes …
A chat with the city manager of Sanford, Maine
Yesterday three of us had a conference call with Steven Buck, the city manager for Sanford, Maine. We wanted to learn more about their emerging community network and the issues …
New social media links
We are sort of new to all this social media stuff, but we’re getting better. Join our Community Network for Northampton Facebook group Follow us on Twitter: @NorthamptonNet Please share …
A visit to Westfield’s Whip City Fiber
Three of us visited Whip City Fiber in Westfield last Wednesday. Rich Carnall, Whip City’s Senior IT Fiber Architect, gave us a tour of their facilities on Turnpike Industrial Road …
Summary of April 5, 2018 meeting
A number of us met Thursday at Northampton Community TV to discuss what we’ve done so far and our next steps. Bill Stathis, Sales Manager for Crocker Communications and Brad …
Outreach continues
We are continuing an outreach within the local community. We have had recent conversations with Al Williams, who runs Northampton Community TV. Al supports are efforts. We also met with …