28 Nov
2013
28 Nov
'13
10:18 p.m.
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>om>, "'mark
burdett'" <mark(a)510pen.org>
Cc: <sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org>rg>, "'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
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30 Nov
8:11 p.m.
On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Eddan Katz <eddan(a)sudoroom.tv> wrote:
There are also some documents that are not for public
distribution outlining
how things fell apart within the Oakland municipal government.
Just to let you know, this mailing list is public. It's not a good
place to send documents "not for public distribution". Every one of
those has been indexed by google, and is now searchable. Should we
take steps to remove them?
8:21 p.m.
Sorry, I did not word it well.
All of these documents can be public. I meant to say that I also have access to a couple
of documents that I did not post, that are not for public distribution. And I meant to say
I would be happy to show physical copies of those documents to folks working on sudo-mesh
who are interested.
Thanks for keeping a close eye on this sort of thing, Yardena. It is very helpful for us
all to be reminded that it is a publicly archived mailing list periodically.
sent from eddan.com
On Nov 30, 2013, at 11:11 PM, Yardena Cohen
<yardenack(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Eddan Katz
<eddan(a)sudoroom.tv> wrote:
There are also some documents that are not for public distribution outlining
how things fell apart within the Oakland municipal government.
Just to let you know, this mailing list is public. It's not a good
place to send documents "not for public distribution". Every one of
those has been indexed by google, and is now searchable. Should we
take steps to remove them?
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