[Davisgig] New Davis GIG Website content is Live + Twiter + Fundraising

Cabrera, Gonzalo P gonzalo.p.cabrera at intel.com
Fri Mar 20 16:54:36 PDT 2015


Thanks for the message Rob, much appreciated – Hopefully Massimo and his manager could point us all to newer fiber technologies that could be of interest to the City and its users.
You guys have a nice weekend!
Cheers!

From: "rob at omsoft.com<mailto:rob at omsoft.com>" <rob at omsoft.com<mailto:rob at omsoft.com>>
Date: Thursday, March 19, 2015 at 6:09 PM
To: "davisgig at list.omsoft.com<mailto:davisgig at list.omsoft.com>" <davisgig at list.omsoft.com<mailto:davisgig at list.omsoft.com>>
Subject: [Davisgig] New Davis GIG Website content is Live + Twiter + Fundraising

Hi All

1) So a big thanks to the web team, plus the content editing group, and as yet to be named marketing folks, that all contributed to a re-write of the Davis Gig home page. It gives a good description of what we are trying to do, without drowning in detail, and it provides a mechanism for people to help by joining the list, as well as register their support for the project. I think its good at this point for us to go public with it. I've  talked to LUGOD about the project on Monday, about 8 folks, and so,  lets all spread the word to other groups and organizations we work with to help us support the concept.  I'll be working up a 20-30 minute talk that I can bring wherever it was wanted. Thanks to LUGOD for letting me try it out.

2) Todd K registered a twitter handle davis_gig and has a spreadsheet of tweets "ready to go",  if anyone wants to review those and add tweets that will go out to the public, please be  in touch with me. I'm hopeful that we will have twitter followers at some point as the word gets out. I'm thinking I'll register another one, that could be used internally  just for our group, as another channel for updating one another on developments as they happen.

3) So we should raise funds to help make this happen. I think specifically anything we  can do to do a big outreach effort would involve money. Also any work helping City Staff develop the feasibility study the Council will be be asking for would also require resources. I have brought this up to the Davis Community Network board as well, since we are all working on this together, I'm sure  DCN, a 501c3, could help  be  the fiscal agent for Davis Gig. We are putting together a subcommittee of the DCN board to help develop a funding strategy. If anyone is interested in helping that on this list, please drop me a line.  I'm thinking we reach out to the larger businesses and groups like Tech Davis, and Davis  Roots.


Around the corner,

1) Meeting with City Staff  - 3/25
2) Austin Fiber Conference - NEED more Funds - collected about $300 so far in commits, anything else would be appreciated.
3) Time to call on UCD. - I was going to start with the dudes, I know at Network Operations. It would be geek to geek, and that way,
we talk to the folks most accessible with the idea. Thoughts?




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