[sllug-members]: Re: sllug-members Digest, Vol 41, Issue 1

[u235sentinel]

Steve Hildebrand wrote:
> I was corresponding with Dr Black and a West Jordan City Council member 
> until a couple of months ago, when the City Council member was not 
> re-elected, and I read in the article that Dr Black and another founding 
> member of UTOPIA had left.  I was formulating ideas the other day to get 
> the word out, since their take rate was less than half what they 
> expected.  The article did have a good point, however, that until some 
> of the medium to larger businesses start installing UTOPIA, it is going 
> to continue to limp along.  In order to catch their attention, many of 
> the smaller businesses will need to start using UTOPIA to get a 
> competitive advantage.  After that, the larger businesses will start to 
> take notice.
> 
> I can try to get some contacts within UTOPIA and see about providing a 
> list of City Council members for the SLC Metro and Provo area, if anyone 
> is interested in a letter writing campaign.
> 

Sign me up for the letter writing campaign.  I've several printers all 
networked and computers.  I can get letters out pretty fast when 
motivated :-)

Also I'd be interested in whomever we need to bump to help motivate them 
along.

The BIGGEST problem IMO with Utopia is a lack of advertising.  People 
simply have no clue and need to be educated.  The rest of the world is 
moving forward with fiber while we ignore it.  A new term I've not heard 
before (Internet Brownouts) is becoming commonplace in articles I read 
about our failing infrastructure.  I'm afraid without something like 
Utopia it will become a common term often used.

BTW, what ever happened with the Utopia grassroots group for Salt Lake 
City?  I haven't heard anything for some time and was hoping it was 
still around :-)

West Jordan besides the blog I maintain, I've been sending email's with 
news of things I hear happening and who to bug in moving us along the 
right path.

For instance, I'm pushing to get the latest bill from Senator Stephenson 
and Rep. Craig Frank killed.  Also pushing for a bill I've been tracking 
in D.C. to become law (it would prevent states from messing with 
projects like utopia).

Hopefully people will wake up and stop accepting mediocre as normal.