[Davisgig] Community Outreach Meeting + Donations! + General Meeting

[Todd Kaiser]

Hi All,

The video of last Tuesday's public outreach event is now up on youtube.
Sorry for the delay!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG5J5nTcUls

Best,
Todd Kaiser

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 6:09 PM, Robert Nickerson <rob at omsoft.com> wrote:

>  Hi
>
> Community Outreach Meeting
>
> A big thanks to the volunteers who helped make our Public Outreach event
> successful. It was nigh professional, we had a full support crew of four
> and two presenters. Had a fairly full room, the presentations went
> smoothly, and were hopefully engaging. 40 people on the sign in sheet. I
> don't know about you all but I really enjoyed the second presentation and
> some of the high bandwidth applications coming along.
>
> We raised some money, and I think made some good new connections. We
> should have video of the session relatively soon. At this point we should
> keep a presence at the Farmer's Market as we can and keep the public
> outreach effort going.
> Multiple people, that have experience doing this, have recently said that
> the "political will" to get the job done is the most challenging part of
> getting a municipal fiber build completed. So, that's great right ? because
> this is the hardest part?
>
> We will keep building awareness and have another outreach meeting maybe a
> panel type discussion next. At a larger venue.
>
> Donations!
>
> We now have a square donation account as well as paypal, with readers for
> both platforms. So will make sure to have that available at Farmer's
> Market. Please ask your friends to stop by and donate to help move this
> along. Surprisingly, we have already collected about $500. If any other
> venues come to mind, for fundraising we are ready to go. Maybe we could get
> a Sudwerk Dock fundraiser going or something.
>
> General Meeting
>
> Lets meet Wed Aug 5th at 6:30pm for a beer at Sudwerk. This will be our
> fifth meeting and it will be good to go over the events of the past months
> and plan for the Fall.
>
>
> --
> Rob Nickerson
>
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