(Joly Macfie says: This is all about taking a city block, maybe yours, and hotwiring it directly into the Internet backbone - No Verizon, No Time Warner etc etc - It can be done, and cheaply, but it needs a lot of community push to overcome the red tape.)
(34 seats remaining! -- Seth) > http://www.isoc-ny.org/?p=815 New York City Community Fiber Meeting Wed 9/9/09 Presentation, Discussion and Partnership Meeting NYCCF invites you, elected representatives, city employees, and other community-based organizations for a presentation of NYCCFs research, proposed business model and next steps going forward. The evening will start with an overview of the history leading to date, challenges and obstacles going forward, and discussion of the ways in which interested parties can help build momentum. Date: Wednesday September 9th, 2009 Time: 6:30-9:00 pm Location: DCTV, Third Floor Address: 87 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10013 Refreshments will be served, please RSVP so we can plan accordingly. Space is limited to 60 people. Registration: http://nyccf.eventbrite.com/ More info: http://communityfiberproject.net/ What is NYCCF? New York City Community Fiber (NYCCF) is a grassroots non-profit telecommunications initiative seeking to construct and maintain community-owned optical networks in New York City. It is the goal of NYCCF to construct optical networks in a manner that is faster both in terms of service availability (time to deployment) and network capacity (connectivity speeds) while at the same time providing a significantly lower total cost of ownership (TCO) on a 10-20 year time frame. In parallel with technical and financial modeling, NYCCF has been actively reaching out to community-based academic and service-based organizations. NYCCF has had discussions with CUNY, SUNY, NYSERnet, the National Science Foundation, Manhattan College, NYIT, the New York Public Library, Mount Hope Housing Company, Fordham University and NYU, among many others, and invites all community-based organizations to come out for an evening of business plan discussion and optical network construction planning. If this sounds of interest, we hope youll join us on September 9th. Registration: http://nyccf.eventbrite.com/ Contact: Louis S. Klepner NYC Community Fiber [email protected] o: 212.796.0853 c: 914.456.7243 f: 425.955.8988 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
