So far through the project I have been engaging on an individual level and attempting to leverage each person’s social network to get the word out about the project and drum up participation.

These conversations have led to people involved with leadership in business communities and others with extensive personal contacts.

The only community services focused group I have been exploring a partnership with is Bucketworks (http://www.bucketworks.com).

I will tell you that one of the value-based goals of this project is to make this web infrastructure available to students in neighborhoods and communities that don’t currently have consistent access to the internet.

In a nutshell, the primary strategy at this phase is to raise awareness of the project, and seed the initial network with enough nodes and bandwidth to make it a contender in the city. Next steps will be to engage with specific neighborhoods/communities/groups/causes to discuss how this network can benefit them, and what it will take to make that happen.

Whew! That was a long one, and I hope it begins to answer your question. Keep in touch!

Shaheeb R.
http://www.wirefreemke.com