The oakland internet choice initiative is picking up speed!
> The Oakland Internet Choice Coalition (OICC) is organizing to provide a
legal path requiring landlords of large multi-tenant buildings to allow
*any *qualified Internet service provider to serve their tenants.
Oakland City Council President Rebecca Kaplan is looking for community
support in the next couple of months.
If you live in Oakland, read more about it and send her an email:
https://takeaction.salsalabs.org/oicc0
I think passing this ordinance is going to be a really important step to
support independent ISPs in their fight against the big monopolies.
--Benny
Tweet from Monkey Brains:
https://twitter.com/monkeybrainsnet/status/1192505705728598016
And from EFF:
https://act.eff.org/action/bring-choice-to-oakland-f765c0b9-89ea-4dac-ac4d-…
Join us this weekend to build local services for peoplesopen.net!
People's Open Network endeavors to provide communication services, so that
it offers value to its users beyond mere connectivity to the Internet. What
can be done to help strengthen ties among Oakland residents, and to benefit
the community?
Services (such as maps, file-sharing, email, contacts, and calendar) should
be provided based on existing free/open source software. See some ideas and
examples here: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Distributed_Services
Chat with us here: https://peopleopen.net/chat
Coordinate here: https://peoplesopen.net/pad/p/hackathon
Post code here: https://github.com/sudomesh
Learn more about deploying services on the network via this tutorial:
https://github.com/sudomesh/babeld-lab/blob/master/services_guide.md
This is a 48-hour ongoing hackathon - we welcome participation in any form,
even if you don't code!
Mad love and, as always, HACK THE PLANET!
Jenny
>We made the decision based on increasing concerns around COVID-19 and
calls from public health officials
>to cancel any public events that could further spread the virus.
Smart and considerate move.
Hi there,
I wanted to make sure those of us on this list are aware that we (Tracy of Media Alliance and a few of us at Sudo Mesh) decided to postpone the Build Your Own Internet event, which was scheduled to take place this Sat March 14.
We made the decision based on increasing concerns around COVID-19 and calls from public health officials to cancel any public events that could further spread the virus. It also did not seem wise, strategically, to hold a panel discussion about the Oakland Internet Choice ordinance when local lawmakers are plenty distracted by this public health crisis. We hope to check back in 2 weeks from now and see about potentially having the event late April if things have blown over by then (fingers crossed).
We hadn't done a great job publicizing this event anyway, so I'm fairly confident that most people didn't even know about it to begin with. However, please let others know that it's not happening if you have told others about the event.
Stay safe out there.
best,
Mai
