[Davisgig] Small Info Update

[Fei Li]

Awesome. That works for me. I'll also lead the website effort unless anyone has any objections.?


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From: davisgig-bounces at list.omsoft.com <davisgig-bounces at list.omsoft.com> on behalf of Robert Nickerson <rob at omsoft.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 12:01 PM
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Subject: [Davisgig] Small Info Update


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<http://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



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