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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I wasn’t at Ties that Bind and I didn’t meet Steve or hear of his/their work until probably 1997 or 8 at which time I believe that Apple had already terminated their/his program. To answer Adam’s question my sense was that there wasn’t much continuity from Apple’s initiative (Steve was uncomfortable I think that they had withdrawn funding in mid-stream from a number of projects) but by that time the Digital Divide associated funding from various US and other government and foundation sources was starting to kick in big time with their own objectives and priorities. (But I always have a faulty memory in these areas…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>M<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> ciresearchers-owner@vancouvercommunity.net [mailto:ciresearchers-owner@vancouvercommunity.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Richard Lowenberg<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, October 19, 2014 8:35 PM<br><b>To:</b> ciresearchers@vancouvercommunity.net<br><b>Cc:</b> Adam<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ciresearchers] Ties that Bind<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hello Adam,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Greetings. We met briefly at GLOCOM a generation ago.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I was also one of the Ties That Bind attendees, as Steve arranged Apple's hosting in '94 and '95,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>after attending the Tele-Community Conference in Telluride, CO, that I organized. In fact,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>the Telluride InfoZone, an early CN, received an Apple Library of Tomorrow award (lots of <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>public access computers, printers, etc.) in '93. The following year, Steve introduced me to <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Dewayne Hendricks (though we had met via Dave Hughes, previously), and working with <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Tetherless Access, Ltd., Telluride set up a community-wide spread-spectrum wireless network.<b><i><span style='color:#1F497D'>[MG>] </span></i></b><span style='color:#1F497D'>) an</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>When Steve died, I set up a remembrance blog: <a href="http://communitynetworking2008.wordpress.com/">http://communitynetworking2008.wordpress.com/</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Richard<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Oct 19, 2014, at 8:51 PM, Adam wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Tidying through an old pile of conference badges I found one from Steve Cisler's "ties that bind" 1995 (subtitle: when we were young :-)) I think likely a few on this list might remember and were there.<br><br>Thinking about the conference, I started to dig through old files looking for information about Apple's early 1990s community wireless project and "NII band", only paper I found is still online <<a href="https://www.isoc.org/inet96/proceedings/g1/g1_4.htm">https://www.isoc.org/inet96/proceedings/g1/g1_4.htm</a>><br><br>Interested in list member's opinions: was Apple's work influential? Or is it my memory playing tricks while thinking happily about an old friend.<br><br>Adam<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>1st-Mile Institute <a href="http://www.1st-mile.org">www.1st-mile.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>P. O. Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>505-603-5200 <a href="mailto:rl@1st-mile.org">rl@1st-mile.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>---------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>