FW: Invitation to Setup FiberFete Remote Viewing Parties
Austin Marks
Is there any interest from the New Orleans delegation to set up a remote viewing party for FiberFete. The conference is sold out, but I would be happy to try to set something up for your viewing pleasure. See note from Geoff Daily below.
They will be webcasting video from 4-6pm on Tuesday April 20th and from 8:30am-noon and 2pm-5:30pm on Wednesday April 21st.
Let me know.
Austin Marks
Chief of Staff
Greater New Orleans, Inc.
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New Orleans, Louisiana 70130
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From: Geoff Daily
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010
11:55 AM
To: Austin Marks; ch...@brac.org;
an...@nledf.org
Cc: Elliott Adams; david isenberg
Subject: Invitation to Setup
FiberFete Remote Viewing Parties
Austin, Chad, and Angie,
I'm writing to you today at the suggestion of Elliott Adams to initiate a discussion exploring the possibility of setting up remote viewing parties in your city for a conference we're putting on in Lafayette called FiberFete April 20-22 that LED is the lead sponsor for.
FiberFete is a three-day invitation-only conference focused on answering the question of what can a community like Lafayette do with the ubiquitous 100Mbps fiber network? How can they and communities like them drive digital economic development on this cutting edge infrastructure?
As a frame of reference, Lafayette is building a community fiber network to every home in the city, offering up to 50Mbps symmetrical service for less than $60 a month as well as a free 100Mbps symmetrical intranet (think of it as a communitywide LAN) to all subscribers.
FiberFete is bringing together top Internet innovators from around the world to meet with some of Lafayette's leaders to talk about what communities can do with fiber to improve healthcare, education, public media, and to drive economic development. You can see our full agenda at www.fiberfete.com.
FiberFete already features representatives from the Google Fiber and Cisco's Connected Urban Development projects; the CTO or CIO from San Francisco, Seattle, DC, and Philadelphia; representatives from some of the top fiber projects in Europe; as well as some of the best Internet minds and community leaders from across the country.
In order to allow as many people to participate in FiberFete as possible, we will be webcasting video from the event.
To that end, we thought that your cities might welcome the opportunity to bring people together to experience FiberFete, to learn as communities about what fiber can do for them, and to spark a dialog within your cities about the value of fiber.
We will be webcasting video from 4-6pm on Tuesday April 20th and from 8:30am-noon and 2pm-5:30pm on Wednesday April 21st.
To set up a remote viewing party the following items will be required:
1. Your organization's interest in leading the set up of these remote viewing parties
2. Confirmed interest from your communities to attend the parties to make sure it's worth your effort to set up
3. A space where the remote viewing party can be held that can display a webcast
4. Sponsors if there any costs with setting this up, if you want to provide any food/drink to attendees, and if your organization can't cover the costs internally
You're also welcome to organize evening receptions and/or other food/drink options.
There are other details we can discuss re: logistics, like the possibility of setting up cameras at your events to webcast back out that we could display at the main event in Lafayette, but for now this gives you a sense of the opportunity and what will be required to take advantage of it.
To make this happen we'll need your buy in and for you all to take ownership of these remote viewing parties as our focus needs to stay on what's happening in Lafayette.
But we hope you're as excited as we and LED are about this conversation, and that you find demand among your constituents to come together to participate in this event.
Please get back to us at your earliest possible convenience indicating if you're interested in leading the setup of a remote viewing party in your community. We can then get on the phone to talk through the details further.
Thank you all for your time and consideration. We look forward to hearing back from you soon!
Geoff Daily 202.834.0121
David Isenberg 203.661.4798
Jessica Rohloff
There's a good chance I'll be in LFT for Fiber Fete in person, so I hesitate to even say yes we should do a viewing party. But honestly, it would 1) make us look like a vibrant, active, serious community who needs fiber (should Google happen to see), and 2) it's a good opportunity to find out what's happening in LFT, and figure out what we can do to make it happen here.
Thanks for looking in to this, Austin. What does everybody else think?
Jessica
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Liz Dunnebacke
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I think we should do it, but I also think we should reach out beyond the NOLA Fiber group (congratulations again, you guys, on putting in so much hard work and getting the gov't application in).
There's a good chance I'll be in LFT for Fiber Fete in person, so I hesitate to even say yes we should do a viewing party. But honestly, it would 1) make us look like a vibrant, active, serious community who needs fiber (should Google happen to see), and 2) it's a good opportunity to find out what's happening in LFT, and figure out what we can do to make it happen here.
Thanks for looking in to this, Austin. What does everybody else think?
Jessica
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Austin Marks <ama...@gnoinc.org> wrote:
Is there any interest from the New Orleans delegation to set up a remote viewing party for FiberFete. The conference is sold out, but I would be happy to try to set something up for your viewing pleasure. See note from Geoff Daily below.
They will be webcasting video from 4-6pm on Tuesday April 20th and from 8:30am-noon and 2pm-5:30pm on Wednesday April 21st.
Let me know.
Austin Marks
Chief of Staff
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Jessica Rohloff
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Liz Dunnebacke
Liz Dunnebacke: Executive Director at the New Orleans Video Access Center [NOVAC]contact | l...@novacvideo.org · (504) 940-5780 · 532 Louisa St. New Orleans, LA 70117 · Twitter