[Davisgig] Small Info Update

Robert Nickerson rob at omsoft.com
Thu Jan 15 12:01:27 PST 2015


Hi Netizens of Davis

So over the past week, I've had a chance to meet with a city council 
member, and have a phone call with Richard Lowenberg of Design Nine and 
the 1st-mile Institute. These have been great experiences, and  I have 
the following items to share as it pertains to this effort. In no 
particular order.

1) To move this into the political realm we can do  one of two things. 
WE can take a city task force approach where the city uses informed 
citizens to study and evaluate different models and  make 
recommendations to city council, or we can do a community driven effort, 
that aims to inform the public and the council and bring it that way. In 
either case, we need to develop an actionable, voteable proposition, to 
deliver to the voters to authorize the city to pass a bond or whatever 
financing mechanism is utilized. I was informed more of efforts from the 
POU community in Davis are using the community driven approach and are 
having good success informing council members, by hosting education 
style events, and doing most of the planning work themselves making 
things happen with City of Davis and  PGE and Community Choice Aggregation

http://www.pge.com/en/myhome/customerservice/energychoice/communitychoiceaggregation/index.page. 


2) Any proposal that is to be put forward must have all other options 
presented alongside so that the councilmembers can "choose" between 
proposals.

3) The Muni Networks  list and website is a good resource for 
communitites that have implemented or are implementing communtiy broadband.

http://www.muninetworks.org/

There is a conference on this in Austin in April.
http://www.bbcmag.com/2015s/

If anyone wants to send me I'd be happy to go, perhaps with someone who 
is also a better schmoozer.

4) With the assistance of Design Nine, we can leverage some of the best 
financial and deployment planning available for these types of projects.

5) Our plan (muni owned Layer 1+2) Retail (Layer 3 and up) is a good 
model. Public private partnership is one of the preffered models 
available for a community fiber deployment.

6) an investment firm in Australia is funding these projects in 
communities around the world already, and would efinitley be interested 
in our rollout. They have US offices.

See - 
http://www.macquarie.com/mgl/com/globalcapabilities/corporate/industry-specialisations/telecom-media-entertainment-technology

They have financed the UTOPIA network in Utah.  I just read their page 
more closely and this is almost exactly the type of structure described 
in the paper.

More at www.utopiaplanet.com

However, I'd much rather we finance it ourselves, through a bond at the 
State of California, or infrsatructure bank, or Department of Commerce, 
than be operated and run by a private equity firm, as forward looking as 
it is.

7) Davis could potentially aim high, perhaps get the university involved 
in a symposium with the city, Davis Community Network, the Davis Gig 
effort, and get  national expertise and input on making the best 
network. While we do this we are showcasing this model, getting it 
implemented in Davis, and be an example for deployments in other citiies.


Here's some next steps.

  I'll talk to Richard McCann - a professional aquaintance, who is 
working on CCA for Davis power needs, learn more about their approach.

  And, its time to meet at Sudwerk and see who can do what and get down 
to some community networking, does next Wed, the 21st at like 6:30 or so 
seem a good date/time?

And, We need a webpage



-- 
Rob Nickerson

CEO
Om Networks
UCD Class of 96
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