Mesh/31 July 2013
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Introductions
- Jacob (dad has worked on Broadband Plan), Jenny, Nadar, Ryan, Mitar, Paige, Doyan [siehjr@gmail.com] (tried to launch a project in Monrovia 7 years ago, focus on hardware)
Notes
- Cost to store data
- Avoid ownership and thus liability
- Write in lack of ownership for state/market as well
- Structure:
- Administrative
- Technical
- How to address collaboration and cooperation with ISPs?
- We can help by reaching communities that don't currently have access, but once we help them get it will be interested in subscribing to the ISPs
- Monrovia project failed due to greed
- Antitrust law for protection, supporting diversity in business models
- Move toward local governments experimenting with new forms of public/private partnership
- Cities can ally with local meshes to supercede the interests of major corporate players, can ally toward using public infrastructure
- We could also build in our own fiber!
- Three potential neighborhoods to initially deploy:
- LOL/SOL
- West Oakland
- Berkeley Coops
- Workshops and talks series
- Public-people partnership as approach to municipal wifi
- They have Access to lightpoles, buildings, shafts
- Don't have access to homes/residencies.
- Policy levels:
- Spectrum
- Antitrust
Name Brainstorm
- Freeband
- Bandgang
- WiFiGang
- WiFree+
- WyFy
- Wycelium
- Mycelium [org name]
- Oakland Wireless Network [OWN]
- WiON+
- ViOWN
- WeOWN
- AlwaysON
- OaklandOWN [Oakland Open Wireless Network]
- Zonal Open Wireless Network [ZOWN]
- OaklandOWNs [Oakland Open Wireless Networks]
- Network Substrate
- Oakland Matrix [OM]
- Oakland Wireless Matrix
- People's Wireless Network [PWN]* #
- People's Open Wireless Network [POWN#]
- Webility
- Wibility
- Ubility
- Youbility
- WeFi+
- Localia
- Wicalia
- wearethenetwork.org
- weareinternet
- wearethe.net
- wefi.net
- People's Local Area Network [PLAN] - "Everyone needs a PLAN!"
- pla.net
- co.fi
- vi.fi
- Community Open Wireless Network (CoOWN)
- Oakland Community Open Resiliency Network (OCORN)
- Community Wireless Network (CoWN)
- Community Local Open Wireless Network (CLOWN)
- Connecting Local Oakland Wireless Networks (CLOWNs)
- bandgang.net