Bradley Holt: Connecting Communities (Gigabit City Summit)
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Bradley Holt of IBM Cloudant on building gigabit community in Burlington VT, presenting at the Gigabit City Summit, Jan. 14, 2015, in Kansas City, MO.
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Bradley Holt: Connecting Communities (Gigabit City Summit)
- 1. Connecting Communities: Burlington, Vermont Gigabit City Summit Wednesday, January 14, 2015 Bradley Holt <bradley.holt@us.ibm.com> Developer Advocate, IBM Cloudant @BradleyHolt
- 2. About Me 2 • 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 © 2014 IBM Corporation
- 3. 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 3© 2014 IBM Corporation
- 4. Burlington Telecom 4 • Initially provided telecommunications services to City buildings • Started offering residential service in 2005 • Began offering gigabit service in late 2012 © 2014 IBM Corporation
- 5. Triple Play or Infrastructure? 5 • 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? © 2014 IBM Corporation
- 6. 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) 6© 2014 IBM Corporation
- 7. 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 7© 2014 IBM Corporation
- 8. 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 8 Image Credit: Untitled by Gary H, on Flickr © 2014 IBM Corporation
- 9. City of Burlington and US Ignite Partnership 9 • 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 © 2014 IBM Corporation
- 10. Bradley Holt <bradley.holt@us.ibm.com> Developer Advocate, IBM Cloudant @BradleyHolt 10© 2014 IBM Corporation
Editor's Notes
- Also co-organizer of Vermont Code Camp and the Northeast PHP Conference
- Burlington is the largest city in Vermont City-wide, gigabit fiber-optic network I was one of the first beta users Saw the potential early on, though difficult to explain
- Bernie Sanders was Mayor during the 1980s
- Gigabit offering provided the opportunity to explain the value of Burlington Telecom as infrastructure Inspired by the Google Fiber Playbook from the Kansas City Mayors’ Bistate Innovations Team
- Close to a full rack of servers running in a Burlington Telecom colocation facility Rooted in community media as well as the maker movement and civic hacking movement Live streaming of public meetings and cultural events Collection of volunteer-developed applications that preserve and promote Vermont-made music Multi-user educational game about the Lake Champlain Basin
- Generator Maker Space Champlain College's Cyber Security as a Service