Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Major F2C Announcement Today
Announcing . . . (drum roll) . . .
More high-powered speakers for F2C: Freedom to Connect
March 30 & 31, Washington DC.
http://freedom-to-connect.net
(Register now: Price goes up February 28!)
The speakers announced below join already-announced
speakers such as the CIO of San Francisco, the CTO of
Seattle, the Chief Technologist of the FCC, and the
visionaries of Lafayette LA and Burlington VT municipal
networks.
Also, see announcements below:
+ F2C Musician in Residence!
+ Special hotel deal for F2C participants.
+ New Collaborating Partners.
+ F2C on Facebook
>>>>>>>>> SPEAKERS:
1) Billy Ray, CEO, Glasgow (KY) Electric Power Board,
In the mid-80s, Billy was spurred by energy crisis #2 and
an unresponsive cableco to create a broadband network for
the citizens of Glasgow KY. By 2001 it was serving 75% of
Glasgow's households at less than 60% of the U.S. average
price. Today Ray is building FTTH and thinking about how
fiber can asuage the need for new electric power plants.
More: http://tinyurl.com/2kto5f
2) Kevin Werbach was co-leader of President Obama's
FCC Transition Team. He also produces the high-powered,
well-respected SuperNova tech conference, and he authored
the 1999 FCC report entitled, "Digital Tornado."
Kevin will discuss his experiences on the Obama FCC
Transition and the prospects for the new FCC
3) Andrew C. Revkin is the New York Times science reporter
on the "beat" of global climate disruption. He travels
the world, witnessing first-hand changes that may
indicate bigger changes to come. He's surfing the edge
of Internet reporting on his blog dotEarth
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/ . . .
4) L. Aaron Kaplan will discuss how Vienna Austria's
community-built, community-owned, 500-device, 30-km
diameter, Wi-Fi mesh network, free-of-charge to its
users has achieved financial sustainability. More:
https://map.funkfeuer.at/wien/
>>>>>>>>> MUSICIAN IN RESIDENCE:
John Jorgenson Quintet!!! John Jorgenson earned
"best guitarist" three years in a row from the Academy
of Country Music. The John Jorgenson Quintet plays
hot, hot, hot Django Reinhardt-style Gypsy Jazz.
The quintet boasts burning jazz fiddler Jason Anick
and a rhythm section so smokin I've bought carbon
credits. http://johnjorgenson.com
>>>>>>>>> SPECIAL HOTEL DEAL:
The brand new Hampton Inn, across the street from F2C
and down a block, has offered us a real deal -- just
under $180 a night, which is substantially cheaper than
any other hotel within walking distance.
YOU MUST CONTACT THE MANAGER PERSONALLY to get this deal:
Aloysious Cory Phillips, Sales Manager
Phone: 301-563-3843
Email: aloysious.phillips@hilton.com
>>>>>>>>> COLLABORATING PARTNERS
F2C depends on word-of-web to get the word out!
Here are a few of the Collaborating Partners who
are helping us with publicity, and what they're up to:
FTTH Council: Fiber to the Home Council is a non-profit
organization dedicated to the advancement of fiber to
the home networks. It has been a major driving force
in bringing fiber to American homes. It is also very
active in Europe and Asia. It's holding a service
provider workshop open to all in New Orleans, March 11.
Agenda here [.pdf] http://tinyurl.com/dhkjng that
will include a very knowledgeable analysis of what's
in the Obama stimulus package to spur FTTH networks
by Tom Cohen. I went to the FTTH Workshop in Petaluma
CA -- a most fascinating day! The FTTH Council annual
meeting, also open, is another great event featuring
the superstars of fiber -- this year it is scheduled
for Houston, Sept. 27 through Oct. 1, info at
http://ftthconference.com
DSL Prime and and FastNetNews: Dave Burstein, editor,
is a close observer of the Internet scene, an original
who talks to everybody and calls it like he sees it
without regard for convention or what passes as wisdom.
I'm delighted to give him a plug, and I appreciate his
heartfelt enthusiasm for F2C!
http://dslprime.com/
http://fastnetnews.com -- "Often interesting reporting."
New America Foundation: The New America Foundation
hosts the public-spirited network work of my friends
Michael Calabrese and Sascha Meinrath. Sascha's
co-chairing an F2C panel on "What we can learn from
Networking Failures," and he's one of the prime movers
behind M-Lab http://measurementlab.net a suite of
tools announced two weeks ago designed to assess the
quality and neutrality your Internet connection.
http://newamerica.net/programs/wireless_future
Personal Democracy Forum: How Technology is Changing
Politics . . .
PDF's organizers, Andrew Rasiej and Micah Sifry are
friends and mentors. The annual PDF conference in June
2008 was stellar, unmissable. This year's PDF event
has not been announced yet, but it is certain to
be better. This is from the heart: I love these
guys and the spectacular events they do!
http://www.personaldemocracy.com/
OpinionSource is a service that consolidates and
summarizes Op-Eds and other opinion materials,
and puts them all in one place, or slices and dices,
e.g., you can get the daily China summary, the
Middle East summary, etc. Friend Jack Hidary runs
this worthy operation. http://opinionsource.com/
>>>>>>>>>> F2C ON FACEBOOK
Join the Facebook event. Invite your friends.
http://www.facebook.com/reqs.php#/event.php?eid=69047882728
or http://tinyurl.com/bj8cvr
More high-powered speakers for F2C: Freedom to Connect
March 30 & 31, Washington DC.
http://freedom-to-connect.net
(Register now: Price goes up February 28!)
The speakers announced below join already-announced
speakers such as the CIO of San Francisco, the CTO of
Seattle, the Chief Technologist of the FCC, and the
visionaries of Lafayette LA and Burlington VT municipal
networks.
Also, see announcements below:
+ F2C Musician in Residence!
+ Special hotel deal for F2C participants.
+ New Collaborating Partners.
+ F2C on Facebook
>>>>>>>>> SPEAKERS:
1) Billy Ray, CEO, Glasgow (KY) Electric Power Board,
In the mid-80s, Billy was spurred by energy crisis #2 and
an unresponsive cableco to create a broadband network for
the citizens of Glasgow KY. By 2001 it was serving 75% of
Glasgow's households at less than 60% of the U.S. average
price. Today Ray is building FTTH and thinking about how
fiber can asuage the need for new electric power plants.
More: http://tinyurl.com/2kto5f
2) Kevin Werbach was co-leader of President Obama's
FCC Transition Team. He also produces the high-powered,
well-respected SuperNova tech conference, and he authored
the 1999 FCC report entitled, "Digital Tornado."
Kevin will discuss his experiences on the Obama FCC
Transition and the prospects for the new FCC
3) Andrew C. Revkin is the New York Times science reporter
on the "beat" of global climate disruption. He travels
the world, witnessing first-hand changes that may
indicate bigger changes to come. He's surfing the edge
of Internet reporting on his blog dotEarth
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/ . . .
4) L. Aaron Kaplan will discuss how Vienna Austria's
community-built, community-owned, 500-device, 30-km
diameter, Wi-Fi mesh network, free-of-charge to its
users has achieved financial sustainability. More:
https://map.funkfeuer.at/wien/
>>>>>>>>> MUSICIAN IN RESIDENCE:
John Jorgenson Quintet!!! John Jorgenson earned
"best guitarist" three years in a row from the Academy
of Country Music. The John Jorgenson Quintet plays
hot, hot, hot Django Reinhardt-style Gypsy Jazz.
The quintet boasts burning jazz fiddler Jason Anick
and a rhythm section so smokin I've bought carbon
credits. http://johnjorgenson.com
>>>>>>>>> SPECIAL HOTEL DEAL:
The brand new Hampton Inn, across the street from F2C
and down a block, has offered us a real deal -- just
under $180 a night, which is substantially cheaper than
any other hotel within walking distance.
YOU MUST CONTACT THE MANAGER PERSONALLY to get this deal:
Aloysious Cory Phillips, Sales Manager
Phone: 301-563-3843
Email: aloysious.phillips@hilton.com
>>>>>>>>> COLLABORATING PARTNERS
F2C depends on word-of-web to get the word out!
Here are a few of the Collaborating Partners who
are helping us with publicity, and what they're up to:
FTTH Council: Fiber to the Home Council is a non-profit
organization dedicated to the advancement of fiber to
the home networks. It has been a major driving force
in bringing fiber to American homes. It is also very
active in Europe and Asia. It's holding a service
provider workshop open to all in New Orleans, March 11.
Agenda here [.pdf] http://tinyurl.com/dhkjng that
will include a very knowledgeable analysis of what's
in the Obama stimulus package to spur FTTH networks
by Tom Cohen. I went to the FTTH Workshop in Petaluma
CA -- a most fascinating day! The FTTH Council annual
meeting, also open, is another great event featuring
the superstars of fiber -- this year it is scheduled
for Houston, Sept. 27 through Oct. 1, info at
http://ftthconference.com
DSL Prime and and FastNetNews: Dave Burstein, editor,
is a close observer of the Internet scene, an original
who talks to everybody and calls it like he sees it
without regard for convention or what passes as wisdom.
I'm delighted to give him a plug, and I appreciate his
heartfelt enthusiasm for F2C!
http://dslprime.com/
http://fastnetnews.com -- "Often interesting reporting."
New America Foundation: The New America Foundation
hosts the public-spirited network work of my friends
Michael Calabrese and Sascha Meinrath. Sascha's
co-chairing an F2C panel on "What we can learn from
Networking Failures," and he's one of the prime movers
behind M-Lab http://measurementlab.net a suite of
tools announced two weeks ago designed to assess the
quality and neutrality your Internet connection.
http://newamerica.net/programs/wireless_future
Personal Democracy Forum: How Technology is Changing
Politics . . .
PDF's organizers, Andrew Rasiej and Micah Sifry are
friends and mentors. The annual PDF conference in June
2008 was stellar, unmissable. This year's PDF event
has not been announced yet, but it is certain to
be better. This is from the heart: I love these
guys and the spectacular events they do!
http://www.personaldemocracy.com/
OpinionSource is a service that consolidates and
summarizes Op-Eds and other opinion materials,
and puts them all in one place, or slices and dices,
e.g., you can get the daily China summary, the
Middle East summary, etc. Friend Jack Hidary runs
this worthy operation. http://opinionsource.com/
>>>>>>>>>> F2C ON FACEBOOK
Join the Facebook event. Invite your friends.
http://www.facebook.com/reqs.php#/event.php?eid=69047882728
or http://tinyurl.com/bj8cvr
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