[Davisgig] Davisgig Digest, Vol 1, Issue 1

[A Hirsch Tree Planter]

Robert:

Thanks for organizing this. We need to flag this with city council so it is
included as part of Davis Innovation park efforts and city Innovation
officer has as part of his charter! Comcast is a disaster. 

Thanks for Sonic -I am luck  I live close enough to get reasonable DSL
speed.

Alan Hirsch


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   1. Innovation with Internet in Davis, CA (Robert Nickerson)


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Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 18:29:19 -0800
From: Robert Nickerson <rob at omsoft.com>
To: davisgig at list.omsoft.com
Subject: [Davisgig] Innovation with Internet in Davis, CA
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Hi Davisites

WELCOME to the Davis GIG email list.

Well, at some point you have expressed interest in getting  Gigabit Fiber
infrastructure installed in Davis, so I have created this list as one of the
tools we can use to explore this concept, and see if we can all bring this
to fruition.
Attached is a document I wrote up in response to the Fiber Internet (Request
for Expression of Interest) RFEI the City of Davis put out in May at the
same time the Innovation Park RFEI went out.  At the time, I was trying to
convince, a larger Stockton based Phone Company to join me in putting in a
response, so please excuse the somewhat informal tone of this document, as
that was its first incarnation.

Omsoft never put in a response, and I'm not aware of other responses, and
time has passed. Since then, lots of cities seem to be interested in putting
their own networks in, and are committing themselves to providing this
infrastructure to their residents, and from my point of view our city would
be well suited to do the same. The Internet duoopoly is tightening its hold
on things, and net neutrality issues aside,  our government's ability to
protect the privacy, affordability and integrity of our telecommunications
has degraded.

Putting in this network will do many positive things for our City, but its
going to take a major group effort to get this worked out and approved. I
also want to make sure its  all reasonable, do-oable and it will be a good
thing for our community, and so I'm asking you to take a look at this proto
white paper I've  put together  and think critically on it, and provide
feedback.

If you have feedback, this list would be the place  for it, and I think in
time if it passes this first test, we should meet at Sudwerk or something
and work on figuring out next steps.

For now , lets take this as a thought experiment and  go from there.

Here are some links pertinent to this topic

A coalition of Cities doing this
http://nextcenturycities.org/

A way to fund it
http://crowdfiber.com/

If others have more links, please share and discuss. I look forward to
working with you all to get this going in our city.

Best
--
Rob Nickerson

CEO
Om Networks
UCD Class of 96
C: 530-848-3865

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