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Davis Gig Update<br>
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Hi All <br>
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So what is the word for feeling bittersweet about the beautiful
weather, are there any German speakers out there that have any
ideas? <br>
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Anyway here are some updates as to what has been going on over the
past weeks. <br>
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1) A public facing website is in the offing, and should be online
sometime in the next 2-3 weeks. <br>
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2) I met with John Paul of Spiral Internet in Nevada City. He is a
tremendous resource, and is just about to start the Nevada City
Fiber deployment. While it will not be municipal owned, it will be a
"community network." He has offered to be our ally in this effort,
share resources contacts, and time at city council meetings. He has
spent the last 2-3 years going to cities that put in fiber.
Attending Connected Communities type conferences, assembling people
to work with, and getting a 60% matching grant for the deployment
through the PUC. Nevada City being a largely under-served market,
that is an option available to them. <br>
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3) JP really recommended we attend the Connected Communities event
in Austin. 3-4 people have offered to donate some funds to get us
there, thank you to those that have. More is needed. There are
registration tickets available for $195 so, that is very affordable,
lets send multiple people if we can. There is also a 3 day FTTH
certification course that would be excellent to attend.<br>
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4) We will be recording a radio interview with KDRT's "Davisville"
program this Sunday 2/15 at 1pm. Its at Davis Media Access. While I
will be on the program, we would really like another articulate
member of the group that feels they could speak to the issue on the
program. This will be a great media piece for us, it will be
recorded and available online for people to listen to.<br>
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PLEASE email me if you can make this interview.<br>
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5) Should be meeting with public power group in town here in a bit.
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6) Davis Community Network will be doing strategic thinking and the
board will be developing a plan to support this effort, through
writing/publishing a white paper or doing public outreach depending
on what is needed. In full disclosure, I am a member of that
board, and about to take the presidency for the upcoming year. <br>
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7) I'd like to pull together another meeting of the group on 2/25 at
6pm. Sudwerk is good again, or Omsoft also works. I think we had
about the max number of people we could get around like 3 tables at
the last meeting and still be heard. <br>
At this meeting we should be close to being able to go somewhat
public with the project, and I'll hopefully be able to report about
some additional meetings I've attended. <br>
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Does anybody have anything they want to add at this point?<br>
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Efforts you have put toward this goal over the past month? <br>
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Thanks All<br>
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