hello i've just stumbled into this whole universe, and think it's a FANTASTIC movement.
in browsing around, i noticed the park projects and the proliferation of "starbucks" nodes. given my background, which i won't go into, my immediate thought was "what about schools as nodes?" has anybody explored this remarkable opporttunity? NYC has well over 1000 public school facilities scattered all over. on a policy level, this would not only help public schools and cut costs, but would provide truly remarkable community incentives/services. for 30 years folks have struggled to provide incentives to "keep" people within urban school neighborhoods. need i say more? this would be truly high stakes, however, as the scale and implications would cut right at a WHOLE lot of commercial interests... in fact, im not sure that public schools per se can even get involved without a system-wide policy on the matter. in terms of procurement and policy, there are many levels to the entire system. some schools could find a way to go at it "solo," perhaps a few networks of schools working together. likewise, independent public schools (i.e. charters) could probably do it today without any hassles. some thoughts. peace __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
