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First meeting was good. <br>
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We took a little over an hour and half, had some beers, some had
dinner. <br>
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I went over the municipal fiber for davis concept as I currently
understand it, and made sure people were on board with this
particular model. <br>
<br>
We discussed strategies for getting this complex project completed.
Specifically, what approach do we take, either resident activist
organization or city task force, to get it done. <br>
<br>
Ultimately we decided we will do both, starting with getting the
activist group well established and rolling. and after our website
is done, we have some more grounding in costs, and technical
designs, we will get through with a task force going. We will
populate the task force from people within the activist group. That
way we can involve the city in looking at different options for
implementing fiber optic, and see who is going to come in support or
opposition.<br>
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People were thinking of trying to get grants to help fund all the
paperwork (plans and planning work, to be able to bring this off.
With the tools of the internet, I think we can do a lot of that
right now while we build things up. Maybe someone can talk to a
local organization like techDavis and see if they would help with
interim funding to hire and generate the plans. <br>
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I identified at LEAST 5 areas that needs to be dealt with that I
have put on the wiki here: <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~help/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=operations">http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~help/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=operations</a><br>
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People have volunteered for various areas. <br>
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I'll flesh out the wiki a bit more on those areas, and I suggest we
use our wiki as our main coordination tool for this project. It will
be a helpful repository for crafting our public website content
from. Feel free to contribute and do so yourself. If you have
important information to add to the discussion to, I suggest you put
it there, as its time to organize this information at a higher level
that we can all reference to w/o looking through the mailing list
archives.<br>
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Thanks to Jason Aller for putting in a bunch of time building it
out. <br>
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Come on others - please do. <br>
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Next steps, Im going to talk with POU people in town, and reach out
to the Kevins in communications resources.<br>
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The website group are going to get a web site going, Im sure if you
want to help they would expect it. <br>
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Things we need<br>
<br>
1) Access to Google Maps Engine Pro - anyone already pay that ? Its
like $50 per yr<br>
<br>
2) We need to articulate why it is important to have municipal
fiber in a completely lay person way, no acronyms or tech speak. <br>
<br>
3) A Team Agreement that states our goals, and what we are and
aren't going to do working together to acheive those goals (?)<br>
<br>
4) Start talking to your friends and neighbors about it, and
community groups you are involved with.<br>
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I expect we will have another gathering next month. <br>
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This is going to take time to do, but I bet it will happen, and
everyone seems committed to doing it right, so it will work, and be
a success.<br>
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Onward!<br>
<br>
RAN <br>
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