bradley holt: connecting communities (gigabit city summit)
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Connecting Communities:
Burlington, Vermont
Gigabit City Summit
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Bradley Holt <[email protected]>
Developer Advocate, IBM Cloudant
@BradleyHolt
About Me
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• Co-Founder & Technical Director, Found Line, 2005–2014
• Creative studio (print, web, mobile) located in Burlington, Vermont
• Worked with mission-driven and nonprofit organizations
• Recipients of the Vermont Tech Jam 2014 Ambassador Award
• Community Organizing
• Code for America Brigade Captain with Code for BTV
• Project Director for the Civic Cloud Collaborative
• Chair of the BTV Ignite Community Working Group
• Author, speaker and facilitator
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About Me (cont'd)
• Recently joined IBM Cloudant as
a Developer Advocate
• IBM Cloudant is a globally
distributed data layer for web
and mobile applications
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Burlington Telecom
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• Initially provided telecommunications services to City buildings
• Started offering residential service in 2005
• Began offering gigabit service in late 2012
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Triple Play or Infrastructure?
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• Burlington tried to build its own cable company in the 1980s
• Many saw Burlington Telecom as a cable TV company
• How to demonstrate the true value of the fiber-optic network?
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BTV Gig
• Gigabit Salon & Gigabit Tweetup
(December, 2012)
• Outreach to Mozilla Ignite, Gig.U,
Free Press, Institute for Local
Self-Reliance and US Ignite
• Burlington's Gigabit Opportunity
(March, 2013)
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Code for America Brigade
• Launched with National Day of
Civic Hacking in June of 2013
• Close to 100 participants in five
major hackathons, regular
meetups and other events
• Projects include:
• Lakecraft
• Vermont Music Library
• "Green" Printing App
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Civic Cloud Collaborative
• Platform for public, non-
commercial Internet applications
and digital creative works
• Spearheaded by CCTV Center for
Media & Democracy
• Built with a Knight Prototype Fund
grant, donated equipment and
significant volunteer efforts
• Connected to Internet2
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Image Credit: Untitled by Gary H, on Flickr
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City of Burlington and US Ignite
Partnership
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• Officially launched in October of 2013 by Mayor Miro Weinberger
• Initiative to use Burlington’s gigabit infrastructure as a tool,
testbed, and accelerator for economic, educational and
community benefit.
• Draft BTV Ignite Playbook Executive Summary released in
October of 2014
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Bradley Holt <[email protected]>
Developer Advocate, IBM Cloudant
@BradleyHolt
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