A press release from Providence Geeks:

First "Town Hall Meeting" to Focus on RI-WINS:

5pm – 6pm, Wednesday, June 21st at AS220, 115 Empire Street, Providence, RI

Providence Geeks is delighted to announce the first in what we hope becomes a regular series of town hall meetings. We have invited representatives of the RI-WINS project to offer some background and details on their amazing endeavor.

The RI-WINS project was launched by the Business Innovation Factory "to create a statewide, border-to-border, wireless broadband network that breaks down barriers to innovation, improves interoperability among new products and technologies, and establishes Rhode Island as an ideal place to explore and test new business models."
Speakers include:

* Bob Panoff, RI-WINS Program Director
* Donald Stanford, Chair of the Business Innovation Factory and President of Stanford Scientific
* Tracy Emerton Williams, Rhode Island's Chief Information Officer

The RI-WINS Town Hall is free and open to the public, and will start at 5pm on Wednesday, June 21st at AS220 (115 Empire Street, Providence, RI) and end at 6pm. The speakers will present short talks on their involvement in and perspective on the RI-WINS project, and will then field questions from attendees.

"When can I get on it?" will be my question.

A week earlier, on June 14, is Providence Geeks' regular monthly "dinner," also at AS220, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. (I put dinner in quotes because eating is incidental. Standing around with a beer talking to folks is just fine, too.)