A new initiative asks Kansas City homeowners to make room on their couches to help out-of-town hackers access Google Fiber speeds.
A new initiative is asking Kansas City homeowners to clear out their basements and make room on their couches to help out-of-town hackers access Google Fiber speeds.
Launched Thursday, Kansas City Hacker Homes is trying to set up a volunteer network of locals to provide rent-free and utility-free living accommodations for three months to entrepreneurs. What?s in it for the homeowner?
?You will be supporting the local business community by helping a new startup get off the ground,? Ben Barreth writes on the company website.
The effort is aimed at enticing startups to relocate to Kansas City to make it ?a better place to live and work,? said Barreth, a Kansas City Web developer.
The site says it will attempt to weed out freeloaders. Hosted hackers are expected to purchase their own food, but they wouldn?t pay for the Google service that attracted them to the area.
Barreth points out that Google, which unveiled its residential ultra-fast Internet and television plans on July 26, hasn?t yet rolled out services for businesses.
No matter.
?But you can guarantee they?ll smash the current current rate out of the water,? the optimistic Barreth tells interested startups.
Out only a couple of days, the site has received some attention.
Barreth told ArsTechnica that he?d already received some interest from entrepreneurs and young, childless couples.
Overland Park-based Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) also backed the organization with a Friday morning Tweet ? ?@SprintDeveloper: KC opening up their homes to startups! What a great effort! For more info, check out this link: http://www.homesforhackers.com/ #KCHackerHomes.?
Alyson reports about technology, entrepreneurship, and engineering and architecture firms.
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