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

[Cabrera, Gonzalo P]

Apologies on the spamming - My message to Rob was for a different e-mail
thread :)

On 3/20/15, 4:54 PM, "Cabrera, Gonzalo P" <gonzalo.p.cabrera at intel.com>
wrote:

>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?
>
>
>
>
>Forward
>--
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>
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