Feedback from Karatiana (head of an At Large Structure (ALS) in New Zealand) who attended the event is as follows:<div><br></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,51)">"<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">I attended the event this morning as an individual with an interest in Internet access.</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:rgb(255,255,51)">The event was more of a promotion event for families and the community with lots of free posters, stickers and photo opportunities (my blog will have photos later today). There were several marketing staff walking around interacting with people and two of the engineers from Google X next to a semi inflated balloon in the plane hangar were answering questions to a crowd who surrounded them. It was difficult to hear and a long wait to get close to them. But the questions were generally about the hardware specs, solar panels and the balloon material.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:rgb(255,255,51)">In terms of where to next, I was told that other areas of New Zealand would be used for testing in the near future. There was no definitive answer about the Pacific Islands that I was able to ascertain today.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,51)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">With the exception of the two engineers answering adhoc questions, the rest of the available information is available on their Google+ page </span><a href="https://plus.google.com/+ProjectLoon/posts" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://plus.google.com/+ProjectLoon/posts</a> <span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(55,96,146)">and a section from last night’s NZ news is here</span> <a href="http://www.3news.co.nz/Googles-internet-beaming-balloons/tabid/412/articleID/301592/Default.aspx" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://www.3news.co.nz/Googles-internet-beaming-balloons/tabid/412/articleID/301592/Default.aspx</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:rgb(255,255,51)">Regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);background-color:rgb(255,255,51)">Karaitiana Taiuru</span></p><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Deirdre Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:williams.deirdre@gmail.com" target="_blank">williams.deirdre@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Some more information (text) about the balloon project from the BBC.<div><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22905199" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22905199</a><br>
</div><div>Deirdre</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On 15 June 2013 07:05, McTim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dogwallah@gmail.com" target="_blank">dogwallah@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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While we have been busy navel gazing about the relative evilness of<br>
gov vs corporatism, some folks have been busy working on Universal<br>
Access methods:<br>
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