[Davisgig] Small Info Update

[Robert Nickerson]

Hi

That's great!

I also have a wiki at www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~help/dokuwiki/

So go at it folks with some time.

Ill be  putting in documents, and links as I am able, but anyone else is 
more than welcome to edit on it.

RAN

On 1/15/2015 12:52 PM, Fei Li wrote:
> Awesome. That works for me. I'll also lead the website effort unless
> anyone has any objections.​
>
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> *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
>
> 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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