[Davisgig] DavisGIG Moves Forward Please READ!

[Robert Nickerson]

Hi Folks,

Sent this out to our large ANNOUNCE lists last week, and realized I 
never sent it to the volunteer list here. Sorry if I get you twice, but 
just want to make sure. We are seeing good feedback from the community 
on this in the form of excitement and donations, so Hurrah!

Take Care

RAN



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Subject: 	DavisGIG Moves Forward Please READ!
Date: 	Tue, 25 Apr 2017 18:49:32 -0700
From: 	Robert Nickerson <rob at omsoft.com>
To: 	dcn-announce at list.dcn.davis.ca.us



Hi Davisites

We are pleased to announce some great progress in our effort to bring 
community-owned fiber optic infrastructure to all our homes and 
businesses in Davis.  As you all know, the work started by DavisGIG in 
2015 to advocate for better broadband options, has been taken up by the 
City of Davis, through its Broadband Advisory Task Force. Last Tuesday 
night, City Council authorized and executed a contract with CCG 
Communications, an industry leader in the area of fiber optic planning, 
engineering and design, to compare and contrast a variety of methods to 
deploy fiber optic throughout Davis.

This is exactly the Feasibility Study we were fundraising for last year 
to move this project forward, and now its underway. This contract passed 
unanimously. The public process does take its time, but we believe it is 
in the best interest of everyone to have this infrastructure as a 
community asset. DCN and DavisGIG believe that, at the same time, this 
investment diversifies revenues for City of Davis, makes the city better 
positioned to attract and retain various businesses, and provides real 
competition in the broadband Internet market, which provides better 
service, pricing and performance to residents.

DavisGIG turned over its Feasibility Study RFP document last year, to be 
used by the BATF, and it really helped motivate the Task Force, and gave 
them something to consider and work through right away, to get us where 
we are so quickly.

Last week at his "State of the City" address at the Progressive Business 
Exchange, Mayor Davis listed community broadband as one of the positive 
and worthwhile developments, like Community Choice Energy, that could 
provide long lasting benefit to the community. Just like Unitrans, a 50 
year City and University partnership, being one of the best and most 
cost effective public transportation systems in the state, we can 
implement DavisGIG to become an effective and  successful community 
collaboration.

A wholly new and modern telecommunications infrastructure is a large 
undertaking, but a necessary one. Community ownership of the 
infrastructure effectively decouples Internet access services from the 
physical means used to deliver Internet access, and removes the monopoly 
leverage the telecom duopoly exerts on everyone that has to use their 
services.

The support you all gave, and the interest level from the community has 
really moved this along, thank you. You all are helping this along. 
After the kick off meeting with CCG, DavisGIG and DCN will likely be 
coming directly to you to help provide data about your current network 
speeds, fees, and willingness to take and use community owned 
fiber-optic infrastructure.

Please continue being aware of and supportive of DavisGIG. This is a 
multi-year process to take back your most essential economic toolkit, 
broadband internet access, away from investor owned telecom giants, and 
put control of that infrastructure back into your community.

Now we need your help funding COS Systems Service Zones, a broadband 
demand aggregation tool, and survey platform. We need to raise $10000 to 
implement this tool over a 2 year period. This will give City decision 
makers HARD numbers on the number of households that would take a 
community fiber broadband service, while at the same time gathering 
comprehensive information from the community about your current 
broadband performance, fees, and contracts. As the municipal fiber 
effort proceeds, we will also use this tool to reach back out to you and 
get residents signed up and deploy neighborhoods. An example of this 
platform has been rolled out by Santa Cruz ISP, CruzIO, and may be found 
here <https://cruzio.servicezones.net/santacruz>.

Please support DavisGIG in this process by donating here 
<https://www.bigdayofgiving.org/DavisCommunityNetwork> on the Big Day of 
Giving, Thursday May 4th 2017. Should you want to donate directly, we 
have a PayPal link at the bottom of the DavisGIG page here 
<http://www.davisgig.org>

Thank you Davis, publicly owned Fiber To the Home is on its way thanks 
to YOU!

  When you support Davis GIG you are:

Directly fighting back against the Internet Duopoly
Directly setting up a system where you have better prices and services 
for Internet Access
Directly helping your City's fiscal situation by not only giving it a 
tremendous hard physical asset, but a portion of your monthly broadband 
revenues.
Directly assisting City and Business efforts to grow more high tech 
business in Davis.

Thank you all and with your help we will keep working until this is 
done, and we have public network infrastructure that will last at last 
generations.


Davis GIG Committee of Davis Community Network.


-- 
Robert Nickerson
UCD Class of 1996
CEO, Om Networks

cell: 5308483865
www.omsoft.com

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