Hi all,
I passed the thread to Shelley Bernstein, our Technology Chief, so she could
comment directly on the Brooklyn Museum's wi-fi. Here's her response.
Deb Wythe
Hi Jeff,
I just wanted to quickly weigh in on the wifi install at Brooklyn. The project
was first conceived of as a community
If bandwidth is a concern, the addition of public wi-fi can help justify
upgrades. The relative cost of increased bandwidth is hard to understand in
the abstract, but if you can get buy-in from communications, education, etc.,
the actual cost is pretty easy to swallow.
I provide public wi-fi
Our organization is in the process of creating a culture of
conservation within our office. We are looking for a way to track our
green initiatives such as having a paper-less meeting, turning off the
lights in break/conference rooms when not in use, setting
sleep/hibernate features on PC's, etc.
Right, it's absolutely true that those of us who made it happen were motivated
largely by the opportunity to address the museum's community-minded mission.
But it was sometime after the success of the wifi that Brooklyn Museum
accepted--on a truly institutional level--that technology could be
Thanks to all for your thoughtful responses. It has all been extremely helpful.
Jeff
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