Advocates for a public, high-speed community network for Northampton Massachusetts
The coalition met Monday night at Free Press in Florence discuss where to go from here. So far we’ve done two outreach events downtown, resulting in 100+ signatures on a petition. As of this morning, we have 424 signatures both on paper and from our online petition. Our question at the meeting was how many …
It was a miserable day for a Hot Chocolate Run in Northampton today … steady rain and temperatures not far above freezing. That did not keep thousands of runners and walkers from participating in this event for Safe Passage anyhow. It didn’t deter our coalition either. We parked at the corner of Main Street and …
South Hadley is going full community network! The town of South Hadley last month approved a proposal by the South Hadley Electric Light Department (SHELD) to build a community network for its 17,000 citizens. This is despite South Hadley having two internet providers already: Verizon and Comcast. SHELD is a municipal light plant allowed under Massachusetts …
We had our first outreach event this morning from 8 AM to 12 PM in downtown Northampton, next to the farmers market. We set up our awning at Gothic and Main Streets. Over four hours we collected 88 signatures for our petition to the Mayor and City Council! That’s 22 signatures an hour, which we …
Unfortunately, we’re losing our meeting space at Northampton Community TV, at least through the end of the year, as they work through the logistics of their move to a new location on Hawley Street. Fortunately, Free Press has offered their conference room for our use, but to make it work we had to pick Monday …
Yea! We’re all legit! If you attend the farmers market at the corner of Gothic and Main Street downtown this Saturday, we’ll be there when the market is open from 8 AM – 12 PM. Unfortunately, it’s the last farmers market of the year at this location. We also have a permit to set up …
Thanks to supporter Crispin who provided us with pricing on the Greenfield, Massachusetts community network GCET. You can see their plans and rates in the updated table below. One thing to note about GCET, Greenfield’s community network, is that it is a wireless network for residences. More specifically, when you request service they set up a …
We had a good meeting last night. The only bad thing is that our host, Northampton Community TV, is expanding to facilities at 33 Hawley Street. This will affect our next meeting as we can’t meet at our current space behind Northampton High School. Hopefully by January the issue will be resolved. So expect our …
We thought this was interesting: In Chicopee, Massachusetts, City Councilor Joel McAuliffe is giving constituents from across the city a chance to express their support for municipal broadband with an online petition…and people are responding. As of this writing, 517 people have signed Chicopee’s petition. You can view it here.
Hey! We’ve changed our logo! Thanks to Davin at Paradise Copies (they are doing our brochures, petitions and sign for free!) we now have an even fancier logo! We should have the printed products tomorrow, which means we should be able to do in person outreach as early as next week! The logo integrates a …