It's just about the last minute that communities can apply to Google for free wireless broadband fiber in their communities--and, with the help of a committee of about 12 hard-working local techies, developers and business-people; Oakland's squeaked in under the wire.

 Google  announced in February that the company planned to develop an experimental fiber project in one or more cities around the country and invited cities to apply. Oakland just made the deadline with a heart-felt pitch and a rush of paperwork, as this video shot by Shaun Tai of ODALC shows.