Shortly after 3 p.m. today, Baltimore mayor Stephanie C. Rawlings-Blake hit the submit button on the city's online application for Google Fiber for Communities pilot project.
In the photo to the left is the city's volunteer "Google Czar", Tom Loveland, and Dave Troy, another volunteer who helped put the city application together. (Troy is sitting at the mayor's desk and computer, shortly after she submitted the application.)
Now, it's wait and see time.
Google said it'll pick a lucky winner for the ultra-high-speed broadband project by the end of the year.
As of 1 p.m. today, Google said more than 600 communities had submitted the request for information. I expect that number to grow significantly higher by the time the application deadline rolls around by 7 p.m. tonight.
Watch the video of the button-pushing!