[Davisgig] Davisgig Digest, Vol 1, Issue 1

Tim Starback tim at active4.me
Fri Dec 19 09:49:43 PST 2014 

I agree and would like to add:

1. Fiber to the home is inevitable. Moving sooner, means we gain an economic advantage of attracting business and residents to come to Davis. Maintaining control of the network is something we only get one chance at…

2. Rather than present this to the city council as a group, let’s meet individually with each member and find a champion. I may be overly optimistic here but I see this as an easy political win that would have little to no opposition.  What we can offer this champion is technical guidance and building support in the community.  Lastly if the city is really interested in becoming a public power utility I see fiber to the home as an incremental step to demonstrate competence and gather more public support for such a move.

Tim


On Dec 18, 2014, at 3:36 PM, Fei Li <flcli at ucdavis.edu> wrote:

> We could try to get 2 documents going:
> 
> The first would be for public consumption that:
> 1) Describes the shortfalls of the current ISP models in Davis with specific examples of how Comcast/ATT/Verizon/etc are anti-"things that you support" and pro-"things that you are against".
> 2) Describes the benefits of municipal fiber and how they address the issues that are rampant with our current ISP options.
> 
> The second would be for local gov't, businesses, UC Davis, and other interested parties:
> The business and technical aspects of things. I admit that I'm not well-versed in these areas, which is where our collective knowledge and experience will benefit us.
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: davisgig-bounces at list.omsoft.com <davisgig-bounces at list.omsoft.com> on behalf of Robert Nickerson <rob at omsoft.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 3:28 PM
> To: davisgig at list.omsoft.com
> Subject: Re: [Davisgig] Davisgig Digest, Vol 1, Issue 1
> 
> Hi
> 
> Yeah I think a good plan would be to get some kind of talking points,
> and good document. Make sure we have collectively "thought it through"
> 
> So when we do go to council folks - we have a good plan of how to do it,
> and how it will work, and we aren't herming and hawing.
> 
> So that's why I'm asking for feedback, and perhaps an organizational
> meeting so we can hammer that out.
> 
> RAN
> 
> On 12/18/2014 2:54 PM, A Hirsch Tree Planter wrote:
>> 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
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: davisgig-bounces at list.omsoft.com
>> [mailto:davisgig-bounces at list.omsoft.com] On Behalf Of
>> davisgig-request at list.omsoft.com
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2014 6:30 PM
>> To: davisgig at list.omsoft.com
>> Subject: Davisgig Digest, Vol 1, Issue 1
>> 
>> Send Davisgig mailing list submissions to
>>      davisgig at list.omsoft.com
>> 
>> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
>>      http://list.omsoft.com/mailman/listinfo/davisgig
>> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
>>      davisgig-request at list.omsoft.com
>> 
>> You can reach the person managing the list at
>>      davisgig-owner at list.omsoft.com
>> 
>> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than
>> "Re: Contents of Davisgig digest..."
>> 
>> 
>> Today's Topics:
>> 
>>    1. Innovation with Internet in Davis, CA (Robert Nickerson)
>> 
>> 
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> Message: 1
>> 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
>> Message-ID:<54923BFF.6060404 at omsoft.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed"
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>> If we have helped you in a positive way, please give us a good
>> recommendation at daviswiki.org<http://daviswiki.org/Omsoft>, and/or
>> yelp.com<http://www.yelp.com/biz/omsoft-technologies-davis>.
>> Please like us on Facebook
>> <https://www.facebook.com/omsofttechnologies%22>. and put us in your circle
>> at Google+<https://plus.google.com/+OMSOFTDavis/posts>
>> -------------- next part --------------
>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
>> URL:
>> <http://list.omsoft.com/pipermail/davisgig/attachments/20141217/2c9577f8/att
>> achment.html>
>> -------------- next part --------------
>> A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
>> Name: FiberRFEI.pdf
>> Type: application/pdf
>> Size: 68506 bytes
>> Desc: not available
>> URL:
>> <http://list.omsoft.com/pipermail/davisgig/attachments/20141217/2c9577f8/att
>> achment.pdf>
>> 
>> ------------------------------
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> Davisgig mailing list
>> Davisgig at list.omsoft.com
>> http://list.omsoft.com/mailman/listinfo/davisgig
>> 
>> 
>> End of Davisgig Digest, Vol 1, Issue 1
>> **************************************
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> Davisgig mailing list
>> Davisgig at list.omsoft.com
>> http://list.omsoft.com/mailman/listinfo/davisgig
>> 
> 
> --
> Rob Nickerson
> 
> CEO
> Om Networks
> UCD Class of 96
> C: 530-848-3865
> 
> If we have helped you in a positive way, please give us a good
> recommendation at daviswiki.org <http://daviswiki.org/Omsoft>, and/or
> yelp.com <http://www.yelp.com/biz/omsoft-technologies-davis>.
> Please like us on Facebook
> <https://www.facebook.com/omsofttechnologies">. and put us in your
> circle at Google+ <https://plus.google.com/+OMSOFTDavis/posts>
> _______________________________________________
> Davisgig mailing list
> Davisgig at list.omsoft.com
> http://list.omsoft.com/mailman/listinfo/davisgig
> _______________________________________________
> Davisgig mailing list
> Davisgig at list.omsoft.com
> http://list.omsoft.com/mailman/listinfo/davisgig

---------------------------
www.active4.me
PO BOX 73311
Davis CA 95617
530-402-8250 Ext. 101




-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://list.omsoft.com/pipermail/davisgig/attachments/20141219/1bc7b1a0/attachment.html>

More information about the Davisgig mailing list