[sllug-members]: Bad UTOPIA news - let's do something about it

[Mike Bourgeous]

> Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 19:23:31 -0700
> From: fozz at xmission.com
> To: sllug-members at sllug.org
> Subject: Re: [sllug-members]: [sllug-members] UTOPIA Project in the [bad] news
>
> Not long ago, Nelson H. F. Beebe proclaimed...
>> There is a large front-page story in the Salt Lake Tribune on Monday
>> 31-Dec-2007 about financial difficulties in the UTOPIA Project, due
>> both to delayed federal government funding, and a customer base that
>> is 1/3 the size of that predicted.
>
> This is disturbing to me on a number of levels.
>[snip]
> Comcast and Qwest, of course, continue to fight UTOPIA every way they can.
> Unfortunately, they have a much larger marketing and public relations
> budget to do so than UTOPIA has to fight back with. For that reason, I
> believe it is only through grassroot efforts and through the marketing
> and public relations budgets of the companies that stand to profit from the
> UTOPIA infrastruture that the word can be spread.

I don't post to SLLUG very often, but UTOPIA is a topic that always gets my attention, and I'd like to do something to help it out.  Are there any audio/video/graphics people on the list (besides myself)?  If there are others interested in such a project and some way to get funding (Xmission?  Donations?) I'd like to help out with a newspaper ad, billboard, bus stop/bus-side poster, radio spot, or TV spot.  If there's enough interest from people with money, connections, or skills, we can put together a list of who can do what, plan an ad campaign, and divide responsibilities accordingly.

Any takers?

Mike Bourgeous

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