The attachments are of particular interest to the history of WiFi efforts in Oakland and the political economy surrounding the different initiatives.
Deborah Acosta, as many know, is now the Chief Innovation Officer of San Leandro.
There are also some documents that are not for public distribution outlining how things fell apart within the Oakland municipal government.
> From: "Deborah Acosta" <dacosta(a)idotconnect.net>
> Subject: RE: [sudo-discuss] Freedom of Information requests
> Date: January 25, 2013 3:42:52 PM EST
> To: "'Eddan Katz'" <eddan(a)eddan.com>, "'mark burdett'" <mark(a)510pen.org>
> Cc: <sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org>, "'Susan Mernit'" <mernit(a)gmail.com>
>
> Eddan: Here, let me help to make it easier. I’ve attached a City RFP issued in 2006, the final report issued by the consultant and the final staff report that resulted from four years of work on the city wide wi-fi project. The stories I could tell you. Ultimately, the report found that the City’s fiber infrastructure was inadequate to implement such a project – and the City Council didn’t “get it” anyway.
>
> The next story is about the public/private partnership (City, IP Network and Cisco) that applied for a federal ARRA grant in 2010 to build a $35 million fiber optic network throughout the City. Didn’t get the grant. Then my subsequent efforts to pick up the pieces (see attached Executive Summary and powerpoint completed 2 weeks before I left in June 2011). No one has picked up this project since I left.
>
> See Mark – you just have to ask the right person!!! Call me if you have questions.
>
> Work wasn’t wasted – San Leandro has hired me to become its first Chief Innovation Officer to represent Lit San Leandro and create a tech business development strategy in that City.
>
> Debbie
>
> Deborah V. Acosta
> Principal, iDOTconnect
> Co-Chair, 2.Oakland
> Tel: (510) 508-7926
> Email: dacosta(a)iDOTconnect.net
> Web: www.iDOTconnect.net
> Web: www.twopointoakland.com
> Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TwoPointOak
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i got openandnotorious.org to map out abandoned and foreclosed properties, where nodes placed in these locations would turn into a legally recognized easement surviving new owners after 5 years under California law under the doctrine of adverse possession (for easements). The legal requirements for possession during this period include other factors, but the main ones are that the use be open and notorious. While proving that may otherwise be difficult, being listed on openandnotorious.org would solidify the presumption.
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> Dear Sudo people.
>
> I had the wonderful opportunity last night to talk to Brewster Kahle (http://brewster.kahle.org/about/) of the Internet Archive (http://archive.org/) for a long while about the emergence of Oakland's tech communities and of our activities at Sudo Room, Oakland Local, and Tech Liminal. [Susan - he told me to pass along his warm regards.]
>
> I was psyched to learn that Brewster has been making serious efforts to enable open WiFi across cities & neighborhoods in the Bay Area (& elsewhere). There's some coverage of his initiatives in connection to San Francisco housing projects (http://gawker.com/373658/brewster-kahles-internet-archive-brings-broadband-…) and more recently on our side of the bay, in Richmond (http://richmondconfidential.org/2011/10/10/archive-org-founder-talks-free-w…).
>
> I shared with him some of our initial discussions about solar powered WiFi routers providing public access to the Internet from the top of foreclosed and abandoned properties around town. I even took him through the 5-year adverse possession plan to get easement property rights to keep them there permanently. He was intrigued and most importantly gave a strong indication that he would like to support our efforts and particularly in helping create the backbone across Oakland that would facilitate mesh networks. As a first step, he suggested that we map out 25 or so of the taller buildings around the city that would allow us to put some antennae equipment on their roofs.
>
> If anyone is interested in working on the project and/or sharing their thoughts about it, that would be hella great.
>
> -Eddan
All,
I am driving up from Los Angeles Friday morning and will be coming to the Saturday evening hackathon.
Would love to meet up with as many folks as possible and help build up the FNF and PeoplesOpen relationship even more.
See you all Friday/Saturday.
--
Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
Hi, I just joined the list and have been exploring the relevant web pages.
I'm excited to get involved -- I first encountered the idea of community
mesh networks at the early meetings of Personal Telco in Portland when
802.11b was just starting to become widespread, and have been hoping to
have a chance to participate in something like this ever since.
I'm at 32nd and Adeline (node "phorzaith"), and from consulting the node
map I think I may have decent line of sight to tunabanana and TSA, a little
more than half a kilometer down Adeline St. and across the street; and
maybe even Hearth. (woody and OMI are also close, but I think line of sight
would be difficult.) I have a first floor apartment, which isn't ideal, but
I might be able to work with neighbors upstairs or a couple doors down to
get better antenna position. I have questions about mounting a router vs.
just mounting the antenna -- anything in my front yard and positioned to
reach that far down the street would, I think, be at risk of theft. I'd be
happy to donate a portion of my Internet bandwidth, provided that I have
the ability to turn it off temporarily on occasion -- my DSL connection
maxes out at about 3Mbps down and 1Mbps up.
I'm going to try to attend the meetup tomorrow. Unfortunately Thursday
nights are bad for me, so I can't usually do in person stuff. If anybody
has specific stuff to point me toward to read or think about before the
meetup, please do!
Pete
Hello everybody!
I'm going to the Global Exchange for Occupy on Monday. Maybe somebody knows
somebody to get us a spot to talk about the mesh? If not then maybe I'll
just ask when I get there.
https://www.google.com/calendar/render?eid=bTBvbjhvNGQ4NHJpczVhZ2JtYzBvZmxk…
Also, there's another event by POOR magazine this week. I'm going to go an
see if anybody is interested in hosting nodes in the East Bay or helping
with the project. Anybody else want to go?
Jeremy
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> i got openandnotorious.org to map out abandoned and foreclosed
> properties, where nodes placed in these locations would turn into a legally
> recognized easement surviving new owners after 5 years under California law
> under the doctrine of adverse possession (for easements). The legal
> requirements for possession during this period include other factors, but
> the main ones are that the use be open and notorious. While proving that
> may otherwise be difficult, being listed on openandnotorious.org would
> solidify the presumption.
>
>
> ----
> http://lists.hackerspaces.org/pipermail/sudoroom/2012-May/000240.html
> > Dear Sudo people.
> >
> > I had the wonderful opportunity last night to talk to Brewster Kahle (
> http://brewster.kahle.org/about/) of the Internet Archive (
> http://archive.org/) for a long while about the emergence of Oakland's
> tech communities and of our activities at Sudo Room, Oakland Local, and
> Tech Liminal. [Susan - he told me to pass along his warm regards.]
> >
> > I was psyched to learn that Brewster has been making serious efforts to
> enable open WiFi across cities & neighborhoods in the Bay Area (&
> elsewhere). There's some coverage of his initiatives in connection to San
> Francisco housing projects (
> http://gawker.com/373658/brewster-kahles-internet-archive-brings-broadband-…)
> and more recently on our side of the bay, in Richmond (
> http://richmondconfidential.org/2011/10/10/archive-org-founder-talks-free-w…
> ).
> >
> > I shared with him some of our initial discussions about solar powered
> WiFi routers providing public access to the Internet from the top of
> foreclosed and abandoned properties around town. I even took him through
> the 5-year adverse possession plan to get easement property rights to keep
> them there permanently. He was intrigued and most importantly gave a strong
> indication that he would like to support our efforts and particularly in
> helping create the backbone across Oakland that would facilitate mesh
> networks. As a first step, he suggested that we map out 25 or so of the
> taller buildings around the city that would allow us to put some antennae
> equipment on their roofs.
> >
> > If anyone is interested in working on the project and/or sharing their
> thoughts about it, that would be hella great.
> >
> > -Eddan
>
>
>
