[sllug-members]: How to get UTOPIA, was: (Host my own...)

[Troy Bowman]

On Jun 2, 2006, at 7:46 AM, Thad Van Ry wrote:

> Having previously been on the City Council in Woods Cross, I'd like to
> urge you to contact the City Council members requesting that they look
> into UTOPIA. I brought it up many times when I was on the City Council
> and every time I did, I got the response that the citizens weren't
> interested in it.

Wow, you were on the WX council and advocated UTOPIA?  Hey, that's  
nice to hear.  I thought I was the only person in Woods Cross that  
even knew about UTOPIA let alone wanted it.  Yay!  I'm not alone!

The only reason why they easily assume that the citizens aren't  
interested in it is because most people don't even know about it.   
Once they do, they'll definitely want it.  Who doesn't want super  
speedy Internet access these days?  Who doesn't want to free  
themselves from the whims of corporate of Qwest or Comcast?   When I  
talk to an average Joe and ask about UTOPIA, he has no clue what it  
is.  But I'm sure that if he knew, and if he owns a computer, he'd  
definitely want it.

Maybe the city could put a description of what UTOPIA is and what it  
does with big bold letters in their newsletter and ask for some kind  
of e-mail response of whether people want it?  I think that'd be  
better than always assuming that the citizens aren't interested in  
it.  Is guessing what your constituents want is part of being a city  
with a ".com" in its domain name?  (What are .utah.gov and .ut.us  
for?  Where is wx.ut.us? :)  Sorry, this is a pet-peeve of mine)

> The best way to let the Woods Cross City Council know that citizens
> are interested is to get quite a few neighbors together and go to a
> City Council meeting. At every meeting there is an open session for
> anyone to bring up anything. If I were to do it, they'd just think "Oh
> here goes Thad again."

I'd be glad to do that.  We need to somehow find more people like us,  
though.  Any ideas on how to do that?  We've at least found three of  
us on this list...

Another thing, we have a new mayor who isn't stuck in his old ways.   
Maybe he'll listen if we send e-mail to him?  Would that do anything?


../troy


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