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Truth be told, my belief in the importance of what we are doing at ISF was starting to wane. Just tonight the thought occured to me - what if it actually turns out to be important? It’s impossible to know what this will turn into - whether we achive higher density by getting regular individuals involved and turn on the mesh functionality, or maybe the developers will write some code that turns out to be key. Not sure, but I guess that there’s the chance that something we do up here in montreal could make a big difference. Just imagine if we were able to suck in a few of the semweb people in Montreal. A few of my smarter friends always want to have their own private development team to bring their ideas to fruition. We can do a lot better that that - if you come up with the right idea and it can be fit onto our platform, we can probably develop it with/for you *and* roll it out to your fellow citizens on what will soon be one of the largest wireless networks in the world (in terms of nodes and of users).

I have gotten enough feedback from people to know that, in some ways what we are doing is inspirational. It’s exciting for others to see a group using open-source methods making an impact in our surroundings, especially when for-profit companies couldn’t. I was starting to think that we had basically hit all the goals we were looking to reach. But now I’ve got this sneaking suspicion that there’s some twists in the trail, and that there’s a chance we could end up making a significant contribution to how this whole “internet” thing will play out?

Not to make too much of ourselves, but a group of 30-40 people of whom 10 are developers, plus resources (still working on that), plus not being hampered by requiring a profitable business plan, all tied together with an amazing team spirit that has show no signs of getting anything but stronger? Why would it be ridiculous for us to make a difference?

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