Help Bring More Businesses and Jobs to Petaluma
December 15, 2010 - Google announces "beta" network at Stanford, new Vice President; uses Sonic.Net
July 2010 - Update - Google now has a site to provide status updates on the project.
February 2010 - Nominate Petaluma for "Google Fiber for Communities"
Google announced "Google Fiber for Communities,"
a project that considers delivery of high speed internet to communities.
Google's announcement and project overview
The City's response was completed and submitted prior to March 26, 2010, as the Google instructions require. Due to the format of the submittal, we cannot publish our response until we are complete, although we did share the results in the March Technology and Telecommunications Committee meeting. You can see details via our video on demand solution.
Keep informed -
As new issues develop, we will post them on the web site. And email those through our Free email list system, Constant Contact. To be kept up to date, please sign up (on the main page of our web site). Be sure to check the box, "Web Updates." If you are already signed up, you can modify your settings by also visiting the front page and clicking to sign up.
We will also make announcements through our Twitter account.
If you have Comcast cable, watch for occasional public service announcements on PCA, Channel 26,27,28
You can follow along at Petaluma360 -
What you can do -
Help out - nominate Petaluma on Google's web site.
Pass out flyers, post in your business' window. (Download hardcopy).
Let us know of a community-interest video - like this form PetalumaPete - that will add to the value of our proposal.
We ran a Uservoice has a new forum to give you the opportunity to participate in some of our repsonses. We have posted the essay-questions from Google's RFI as Uservoice forum topics. Please add your own comments and/or vote on others.
Use your email, social networking - Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn -to encourage others to also nominate Petaluma!
People contacted Webmaster to submit comments or ideas. (Sorry, your comments submitted for this purpose may not be replied to, due to the anticipated volume of comments we anticipate).
and - links to videos. We're taking suggestions for all videos that demonstrate what value Petaluma has to Google for selectin Petaluma !
Our response to Google's RFI is being done online within their system. A few of the questions, however, allow us to link outside information. Some of this is linked here, in 3 parts.
Information Technology Manager,
Tim Williamsen
fax: 707.776.3623
Email form
11 English St.
Petaluma, CA 94952
Hours 8 am to 5 pm
Monday through Thursday. Closed Fridays.
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