Comments on: A Laptop in Every Backpack http://actlocallysf.org/blog/topic/2007/05/02/a-laptop-in-every-backpack/ Join the Debate! Read and comment on articles posted on actlocallysf.org. Fri, 16 May 2008 18:48:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.0 by: Bruce Wolfe http://actlocallysf.org/blog/topic/2007/05/02/a-laptop-in-every-backpack/#comment-673 Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:37:42 +0000 http://actlocallysf.org/blog/topic/2007/05/02/a-laptop-in-every-backpack/#comment-673 Folks, Here is the simple answer. We should not go into business or contract with companies that have publicly stated they are tentative of projects they have been courted by the city to work on. Additionally, we also must know if there is solvency of those companies, that they will stick around long enough to finish and carry on the project especially when it needs constant maintenance. These concerns and others need to be part of the balancing test when making these long-term decisions on services the city is well equipped to provide and afford with little affect. Whether we like the contract or not, we really have to pay attention to the winds of change in the marketplace. Despite the want or need for this contract to be successful, the market doesn’t wait for the public or government. It has investors and market standing that is far more priority to leveraging their profits and cash flow. This may mean for any good businessperson that a shift in strategy is essential, if not, imminent. With that, we must keep our ears to the rails. Here is a major rumbling that we must not discount on our issue at hand from the new CEO of Earthlink, Rolla Huff. Respectfully, Bruce ===================== http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=200000837 “The real question around municipal Wi-Fi is, ‘What is the economic model going to look like?’” said Huff. “At end of day, we all have to understand what it’s going to take to make money at this.” If he decides the business modwl is cloudy, Huff said, he won’t hesitate to pull the plug — even on highly visible projects like the Google-Earthlink effort to build a wireless network for San Francisco. “To the extent I don’t think we have the capability to get to the point of profitability, I’ll make that judgment, too.”<ul><li><label>Overall Rating</label>: 1</li> </ul> Folks,
Here is the simple answer. We should not go into business or contract with companies that have publicly stated they are tentative of projects they have been courted by the city to work on. Additionally, we also must know if there is solvency of those companies, that they will stick around long enough to finish and carry on the project especially when it needs constant maintenance. These concerns and others need to be part of the balancing test when making these long-term decisions on services the city is well equipped to provide and afford with little affect.

Whether we like the contract or not, we really have to pay attention to the winds of change in the marketplace. Despite the want or need for this contract to be successful, the market doesn’t wait for the public or government. It has investors and market standing that is far more priority to leveraging their profits and cash flow. This may mean for any good businessperson that a shift in strategy is essential, if not, imminent.

With that, we must keep our ears to the rails.
Here is a major rumbling that we must not discount on our issue at hand from the new CEO of Earthlink, Rolla Huff.

Respectfully,
Bruce

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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=200000837
“The real question around municipal Wi-Fi is, ‘What is the economic model going to look like?’” said Huff. “At end of day, we all have to understand what it’s going to take to make money at this.”

If he decides the business modwl is cloudy, Huff said, he won’t hesitate to pull the plug — even on highly visible projects like the Google-Earthlink effort to build a wireless network for San Francisco. “To the extent I don’t think we have the capability to get to the point of profitability, I’ll make that judgment, too.”

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]]> by: lik roper http://actlocallysf.org/blog/topic/2007/05/02/a-laptop-in-every-backpack/#comment-570 Sat, 05 May 2007 15:45:46 +0000 http://actlocallysf.org/blog/topic/2007/05/02/a-laptop-in-every-backpack/#comment-570 it might be good to create a full-circle computer recycling program as well - www.likroper.com<ul><li><label>Overall Rating</label>: 10</li> </ul> it might be good to create a full-circle computer recycling program as well - www.likroper.com
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]]> by: Stuart Smith http://actlocallysf.org/blog/topic/2007/05/02/a-laptop-in-every-backpack/#comment-569 Fri, 04 May 2007 01:59:34 +0000 http://actlocallysf.org/blog/topic/2007/05/02/a-laptop-in-every-backpack/#comment-569 Mayor Newsom has had ample opportunities to make this dream become reality, but crossing the globe on the Google Jet seemed to much fun to ask for the right thing for San Francisco in his WiFi initiative and we all lost. Comcast got a green light to rob San Franciscans under this administration and a cheap contract extension as well as the right to forget their contractual obligations from the past. They could have finished their original obligation to wire every school but that was foregiven as was our ability to strike a good deal with EarthLink and Google. Leadership is about vision and honesty working together to delegate and implement that vision with people possessing the skills and talent to execute the leaders vision. There apparently isn't that level of executive capability at DTIS where the inmates run the asylum.<ul><li><label>Overall Rating</label>: 1</li> </ul> Mayor Newsom has had ample opportunities to make this dream become reality, but crossing the globe on the Google Jet seemed to much fun to ask for the right thing for San Francisco in his WiFi initiative and we all lost. Comcast got a green light to rob San Franciscans under this administration and a cheap contract extension as well as the right to forget their contractual obligations from the past. They could have finished their original obligation to wire every school but that was foregiven as was our ability to strike a good deal with EarthLink and Google. Leadership is about vision and honesty working together to delegate and implement that vision with people possessing the skills and talent to execute the leaders vision. There apparently isn’t that level of executive capability at DTIS where the inmates run the asylum.
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