They have a small web and software community in Maine, and they want more. Portland is a really nice town. I drank beer, we debated, met people who were happy for the nice weather we were having. It's cold in winter, Mainers like that, but they also seemed to enjoy late spring beer-drinking weather. Broadband and community Portland could probably support a larger web development community because it's got one thing most towns, including San Francisco and Boston, don't have, a broadband cable system with an operator, Time-Warner, that wants to develop it as a web system.
Community means something different in Maine.
In Califoria, we think of virtual communities, like DaveNet or Scripting News, or any number of other special interests that transcend geographic barriers. In Maine, the communities have names like Portland, Camden, and Bangor. They're real cities, not virtual. Broadband systems perform at rates comparable to local area networks, but they cover much larger areas. Computers that are connected via broadband can communicate among themselves much faster than they can with other nodes on the Internet.