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@iDOTconnect.net
Web: www.iDOTconnect.net
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TwoPointOak
From: Eddan Katz [mailto:eddank@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Eddan Katz
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 11:57 AM
To: mark burdett
Cc: sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org; Susan Mernit; Deborah Acosta
Subject: Re: [sudo-discuss] Freedom of Information requests
Mark -
I think it would be useful to bring in Susan Mernit & Deborah Acosta, both of whom are on this list as far as I know, who were around for these discussions at the time. Susan, of Oakland Local, has also had extensive and successful experience with FOI requests with the City of Oakland.
sent from eddan.com
On Jan 24, 2013, at 6:51 PM, mark burdett <mark@510pen.org> wrote:
Hmm as would I :) We'll need to figure out which office(s) to send it to, and what type of documents to request. Let me know if you have any ideas re: how to phrase the request - I'll also talk to some lawyer folks.
--mark B.
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Eddan Katz <eddan@eddan.com> wrote:
I would be interested in learning more about discussions within municipal leadership about previous attempts to introduce Open WiFi to Oakland.
On Jan 21, 2013, at 12:06 PM, mark burdett <mark@510pen.org> wrote: