[DrRon Suarez]

Understanding Fiber Innerducts: A Comprehensive Guide was published March 1, 2024. We are working on materials to assist with people planning the construction of affordable housing. Especially with new construction, there is no reason to not consider this as a way to lower the cost of living for everyone.

123.net

Understanding Fiber Innerducts: A Comprehensive Guide

Discover how fiber innerducts are utilized and how they are involved in the planning, installation, or management of fiber optic systems.

[DrRon Suarez]

Notta AI –

Summary

The transcript summarizes a presentation by Justin Kilpatrick, co-founder of Althea, on the design decisions and tradeoffs made in building Althea 01, a layer 1 blockchain tailored for Althea’s decentralized bandwidth market application. Key points covered include not needing enormous block space due to bounded transaction frequency, the ability to parallelize simple value transactions, the critical importance of lightweight clients for query load, and framing data availability as a logistics not financialization problem.

ChaptersLimited Block Space Needed

Bandwidth transactions are physically bounded unlike financial transactions, with frequency limited by system latency and finality times around 4-8 seconds. Even with continuous 4K video streaming, transaction demand caps around thousands per minute, addressable on a simple optimized chain.

Easier to Scale Than General Computation

Simple direct value transfers parallelize easily while EVM requires serial execution, benefiting less from parallelization. A hybrid model with efficient bandwidth transactions plus integrated EVM suits Althea’s needs.

Light Clients Critical for Query Loads

Effective light clients are vital to support enormous user query loads from devices like routers, unlike DeFi’s lower query assumption. Instant finality enables proofs for fast, lightweight bootstrap.

Data Availability as Logistics Not Financialization

Required data is cheap to store so availability is about having enough lower-footprint nodes. Intelligent light clients can store partial blockchain data to serve queries.

Action Items

• Research light client options compatible with Tendermint consensus
• Explore hybrid chain designs optimizing parallelizable transactions
• Model projected query load from user devices to size RPC infrastructure

[DrRon Suarez]

Watch the video of Justin’s presentation:
https://youtu.be/3Wi2jv2oxLk

[DrRon Suarez]

While not perfectly accurate, this is useful.

Action items from Otter

Some key action items from the meeting include:

– Devon will announce the call for folks to sign up to be part of the initial 3 Althea local chapters pilot programs

– Once people start signing up, Devon and Ron will figure out next steps like organizing listening sessions and having Ron involved

– Ron offered to help onboard any new teachers for the learning platform by doing one-on-one sessions to help them get started

Summary from Otter

Althea local chapters aim to foster robust conversations and connect people with opportunities to bring their interests into the real world. Speaker 1 discussed their experience in creating and managing successful online courses, including tokenization and course access. Speaker 1 and Speaker 2 also discussed digital equity, emphasizing the importance of empowering people to address these issues through bottom-up approaches. They also touched on the challenges of customer service in the digital age and the potential of including internet access as part of public housing.

Action ItemsOutlineAlthea chapters and community engagement.

• Speaker 1 and Speaker 2 discuss their experiences with AI tools and screen sharing.

• John Trent shares his journey of connecting with the Healthy Community, from joining NYC mesh to hosting a course on the topic.

• Althea chapters aim to facilitate meaningful conversations and real-world impact through Discord and Twitter, with a focus on connecting community members with engineers and network operators.

Creating local chapters for a community organization.

• Speaker 1 discusses Hamtramck, Michigan with Speaker 2, mentioning its history as a Polish neighborhood and its current situation with Motor City Lounge.

• Speaker 1 and Speaker 2 share experiences related to the Grateful Dead and their connections to the band’s community.

• Speaker 1 and Speaker 2 discuss creating local chapters for a community project, with options for public, private, or hidden groups.

• Speaker 2 suggests using sub-interest groups within a larger community to share knowledge and build with other groups.

Online course development and community website management.

• Experienced couple created a community website for healthcare administrators in West Africa.

• Speaker 1 explains the purpose of a worker-owned cooperative to restore the internet as a public commons.

Creating an online course platform.

• Speaker 1 plans to make instructor roles reusable and manageable with a front-end dashboard.

• John discusses the flexibility of his online course platform, including customizable lessons and pricing options.

• Speaker 1 considers pricing options for courses, including a token system.

Digital equity and internet access for marginalized communities.

• Professor shares knowledge on course design and hidden fees in online course, emphasizing empowerment of people from the bottom up.

• Unknown Speaker seeks collaboration to address digital equity, citing past mistakes and seeking input from chat GPT bot.

• Speaker 1 recommends reading Captive Audience by Cathy O’Neil, highlighting her past and recent statements on the internet and systemic change.

• Speaker 1 had difficulty navigating Comcast’s customer service due to a chatbot and an accented human representative, emphasizing the importance of clear communication in customer service.

Affordable internet access for low-income communities.

• Speaker 1 suggests government-funded programs for minorities are intentionally designed with obstacles to discourage use.

• Developer proposes including internet as part of public housing, bypassing individual household billing.

• Speaker 1 and 2 discuss affordable internet for tenants in high-end buildings.

otter.ai

Otter Voice Meeting Notes

Otter.ai uses artificial intelligence to empower users with real-time transcription meeting notes that are shareable, searchable, accessible and secure.

[DrRon Suarez]

OTI and EveryoneOnWorking Together to Evaluate the Impact of Broadband Inclusion EffortsPOLICY PAPER

By Georgia Bullen and Greta Byrum

Feb. 9, 2016
https://www.newamerica.org/oti/policy-papers/oti-and-everyoneon/

newamerica.org

OTI and EveryoneOn

This toolkit is designed to provide a resource for any organization offering digital services.

[DrRon Suarez]

We are working on a plan to approach libraries here in Michigan. Stay tuned for more updates soon.

[DrRon Suarez]

A simple thing to promote that non-technical people should understand would be to follow the recommendation about requiring that systems on the Internet interoperate. My sister, who is a lawyer, uses an iPhone, and my phone is Android. I end up missing some very important messages from her as a result.

[DrRon Suarez]

Some of the same people who discussed the mosaic app for their community also spoke about using the Gather app.

info.gather.coop

Gather

The App for Community

[DrRon Suarez]

Link Oregon is a membership-based, non-profit technology consortium serving Oregon public and non-profit organizations

[DrRon Suarez]

Complete this form to join our (Merit) December 20th mapping working group meeting, where we will discuss all necessary information there. Don’t delay; learn how to support your community to “Test your speed for BEAD” as this is the last chance we will get to impact BEAD eligibility.

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Ron Suarez (You) 12:25 PM

Ryan Johnston: Are communities listed on the Next Century Cities website supposed to make connectivity affordable? Ann Arbor is listed on the website. When I asked about the cost to connect to a backhaul, I was told: It is $105,000.00 one-time fee per pair. (one time entry fee) $10,500 annually per pair

Ron, you can view the principles that our members agree to when they sign up for membership at https://nextcenturycities.org/join-our-movement/#advocating-for-good-connectivity-policy

Communities who join us are working towards universal, high-speed, affordable broadband for their residents, but we do not prescribe how they are to achieve that. We also don’t have Industry funders or members, and so we don’t have the resources or connections to help our members negotiate prices for connections with providers.

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Join Our Movement - Next Century Cities

Home Next Century Cities Membership Next Century Cities supports mayors and community leaders across the country as they seek to ensure that everyone has fast, affordable, and reliable internet access. … Join Our Movement Read More »

[DrRon Suarez]

I want to introduce you to my prospective partner in Montana. He is running a nonprofit using Althea technology to provide the school system and surrounding residence with both Internet and telephone. He is an excellent example of how an alternative can get started and should receive funding. I have begun to create a course that I have called get funding workshop. I’d like to have all of us interact and put the results into that workshop, which I have scheduled to launch in January.

First, here is what I put into the course description, which served as a prompt for AI to generate the names of five lessons.

A group exploration of government and private funding, from identifying sources to have a stake in a product, project, or idea, all on one map. You can also document their roles and your relationship with them.

Here are the five AI generated lesson names:

Course Content

Understanding the Landscape: Mapping Government and Private Funding Sources

Identifying Opportunities: Researching and Evaluating Potential Funding Sources

Building Relationships: Nurturing Connections with Government and Private Funders

Crafting Your Pitch: Presenting Your Product, Project, or Idea to Funding Stakeholders

Securing Funding: Strategies for Negotiating and Finalizing Deals with Government and Private Funders

[DrRon Suarez]

I would love to work with Public Knowledge, and Gigi Sohn’s new organization, American Association for Public Broadband.

[DrRon Suarez]

There are lots of videos for how you monetize a custom GPT:

https://youtu.be/Bjgacpb2ycQ?si=xYI0frW3QEyORymJ

[DrRon Suarez]

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