Two days later..
Well I must say that I’m pleasantly surprised by the current results of my Open Letter. In 2 days it has generated over 80 posts to the mailing list. Some of which have gone away from my original intent but there are also many that come back to what I was talking about. There have been some great ideas flushed out in relation to the day to day of individual activities and ways to use the network. I’ve seen posts from people that I don’t recognize by name, and I even received an email from someone in Berlin, Germany.
I can also say that I’m current still disappointed, but not surprised, at the results that related directly to my post. There are no ideas or goals at the elected leadership level pertaining to how to make the organization anything other than what it was 5 years ago. There really are no ideas on how to grow the organization to give even those original ideas a chance to do anything than what they’re accomplishing now. Which is nothing fantastic in the overall capacity of an organization like The Personal Telco Project. I’m not trying to diminish the accomplishments that PTP has made. You don’t find an group like this in very many places in the world that have done as much as PTP has with as little as they’ve been given. The group is VERY organic. It has made a good impact on the access Portland has to information. The volunteers have been consistently extremely smart and resourceful. I commend every one of us that have contributed.
If PTP expects to be taken seriously in the future and have available to itself the capacity to grow past pluging in Access Points, configuring email servers, and posting links to webcomics on irc there should be some expectation that the elected officials would show some guidance and goals to accomplish that. If not.. then hey.. I’ve come up with some pretty good links in the past and I’m sure I’ll find something else to paste in the channel again because that is definitely part of the fun.
judah on January 26th 2007 in Wireless
