Recent email discussion

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15544013.post-1124389645803755622005-07-21T13:39:00.000-07:002005-08-18T15:15:06.386-07:00Recent email discussionHi Folks:Recent email discussion -- I want to make sure everyone is in the same loop -- I'll work on getting the two lists integrated. Hi Chuck:Welcome to Strafford.Were you among the folks at Jack Hoffman's table at UVCIA yesterday? If so, I was the nosy woman from Strafford at the table next to yours.Did Jim Masland forward you the email we got from Peter Gregory at Two Rivers Ottaquechee Planning Commission this AM? I am copying it below, just in case.I don't know the process or requirements about identifying providers under the state grants. Peter is copied on this email and I am hoping he can give us direction on this question -- usually in situations with public funding there needs to be an arms length relationship between the entity getting the grant and the provider chosen to provide the service -- but you worked at NIH, you know that!Meanwhile, I am glad we closed the loop between the work you are doing from the technical side and the work that has been going on in town around organizing the community. As Jim requested, I'll add you to the community email list about this question -- it is significantly larger than the one Jim is using, although it has been coordinated by Lew Sussman to date and his name does appear here.As you can see in the email below, Two Rivers Ottaquechee will be coordinating a community meeting on this issue in the near future.From Peter Gregory, Two Rivers Ottaquechee Regional Commission:Hi Jill:Attached is a copy of a cover letter and an application for the broadband grant program as announced by the state a short while ago.I will coordinate with you to set up a meeting locally where I can bring the folks from the Broadband Council to understand the depth of interest and to help package the demand to seek a grant. The Broadband Council is within the Vermont Council on Rural Development.I will be in touch for an early/mid August meeting.PeterAt 12:49 PM 7/21/2005, Chuck Sherman wrote: Hello everyone,Let me introduce myself (again to some of you).I'm Chuck Sherman (ham call N3WTO), and moved into Strafford last night. Margie and I live in Sue Miller's former house at 129 Pennock Road. We are not yet unpacked.I graduated from Dartmouth in 1967 and retired from NIH in Washington DC on June 30, 2005.I have been working with topographical mapping programs and Bob Jacobson of Wavecomm to design a method to bring broadband to Strafford. Bill Burden is familiar with our plans. I have been in touch with the Broadband Council and knew that a second round of grants were in the planning. We are perfect candidates, but it can happen even if we don't land a large grant.Our current plan is to use microwave to relay internet access from Bob's source in Norwich via his other tower in Tunbridge that is in line-of-sight with my hillside where I plan to build a ham radio antenna tower and afix a microwave receiver. We have another relay point planned on John Hughe's hill that will allow us to provide people in Strafford with broadband internet via wifi, the same technology that Finowen is trying to provide in other parts of the Upper Valley.I'd be happy to meet with anyone interested in bringing broadband to town and coordinate plans and ideas that will benefit the residents of Strafford. ---ChuckOn Jul 21, 2005, at 12:13 PM, Jim Masland wrote: Chuck Sherman is a new resident in Strafford and would like to participate in this venture. Hence his email (chucksherman@mac.com) has been added to the list.JimMariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08100118955128266626noreply@blogger.com