I'd be down with that.  But no nudity, ok?

this is totally a WOOOT! I volunteer brian barber (and me) for the promo video effort. WTG Don!!! Let's do it!!!!!

Awesome. I nominated Duluth right when I saw this. what a great opportunity.

Is Donny doing his own posts?  Either way it's cool that he shared this with us in this way.  Very Broadband of him.  

I'm in, I'll make a request or work on a promotional campaign if someone points me in the right direction.  This is a great idea and I agree we are a fantastic fit.

There is currently a group on facebook to help gather efforts as well.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=297173064066&ref=ts

This is a great step forward and will put us in the running for sure. :D

Is anybody using google wave yet?  I know it exists and that it could be cool and useful but don't know how to develop in it (also I have my plate full working to start a charter elementary school, if interested in that, let me know)

*laughs*

The day Donny has a staff to write his emails, we'll know he's made us so rich we can all eat grapes fed to us by the shiny shiny robots.

We have a decent steam tunnel infrastructure in the downtown area that could be used.  They didn't specify how the fiber is set up.

Elsewhere, I've helped run fiber under-ground once (grunt man).  It's a pain in the arse.  But that's different; we had to use an existing conduit that had a small diameter.  Lot's of lube and pulling :^)

Most likely big profile communities will win the prize, like Berkely area or Seattle or Houston.  I'll just laugh if they choose a suburban area near Redmond.

I have to admit, though, having Duluth further on the radar would be cool.

I beleive this is a HUGE opportunity for the city of Duluth.  Not just the promotion it will bring, but more so the much needed competition it will give "The Monopoly" (a.k.a. Charter Communications).

Thank you, Mayor Ness, for getting behind this...now let's get organized and get this done!

"Local" cable and phone companies aren't so local. And, as I read it, they'll actually have access to the Google fiber too.

We are behind you 100% Mayor dear!

I'll be sending an employee to see you with a check in hand.

Are we making progress on this?

http://www.zettaphile.com/2010/03/02/list-of-cities-vying-for-googles-gigabit-project/