neat day yesterday

I haven’t said anything about this publicly so far, but the story is out.

Du WiFi jusque dans les parcs
“Un projet de partenariat financier entre la Ville de Montréal et l’organisme Île sans fil fait son chemin dans les couloirs de l’hôtel de ville.”

Front page of La Press. Middle of the page. Who ever thought it would come to this.

We’re proposing a project to the city for a 5 year community / public partnership worth one meeelion dollars. (really). The new board was elected with this project in mind and they’re doing a great job. Hopefully it goes through.

UPDATE: Those numbers are just initial numbers that came from a working document. I don’t want to get in trouble from the guys doing the heavy lifting on this project if the final proposal ends up being for different amounts.

And I signed on to Patrick and Dan’s coworking project to be an anchor tenant. I don’t really enjoy all the hype these days around the *camps and the Yul* ’s but I’m very attracted to the people that have committed so far. And Patrick and Dan say that they’re going to make a real effort to create a diverse team of co-workers. I’m counting on them following through with that. I’ll miss hanging out with mai kurent offizmaet, but that’s life.

2 Responses to “neat day yesterday”

  1. zara Says:

    Congrats to ISF !

  2. hughmcguire.net · cities and creativity Says:

    […] Mike announces that free community wifi group will be getting a million dollars over five years from the City of Montreal to increase hotspot coverage. Kudos. […]

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