[OSGeo-Discuss] This Old Neighborhood: Rebuilding Suburbia the Internet Way

[Miles Fidelman]

Hi Folks,

Perhaps you might be interested in my latest attempt to tilt at 
windmills & herd cats - /This Old Neighborhood - //Rebuilding Suburbia, 
the Internet Way./ <http://thisoldneighborhood.net>

Our goal is to channel the energy of crisis mappers, and other engineers 
& makers, who are building the growing edge of the human enterprise, to 
rebuilding aging infrastructure, dating back to the /New Deal /and 
/Post-WWII/ building boom.  The Magic of the Market is failing us, 
Government is Gridlocked, Politics & Mainstream Media have degenerated 
into an Infotainment Clown Show.  We need to /Fix the World,/ and 
/Rebuild for a New Millennium./  It's time again fo/r //We the People/ 
to take charge of our destiny and /Do It Ourselves./

After 50 years of launching & building large systems - including 
military & enterprise networks, big chunks of the Internet, putting the 
Internet in public libraries, community networks, municipal broadband 
networks - I find myself on a board & long-range capital planning 
committee for the oldest condominium complex in Massachusetts - /as we 
face the challenge of giving ourselves a major overhaul to aging 
buildings, grounds, and aging infrastructure.... going green & 
sustainable in the process.... and finding a way to pay for it all./  An 
exercise in herding cats & tilting at windmills.

At one time, I coined the term /civic networking/ and built /The Center 
for Civic Networking 
/(https://web.archive.org/web/20030207072351/http://munitelecom.org/jmt.html), 
and then helped cities & towns launch municipal broadband projects - 
actually wrote the book on it (/Telecommunications Strategies for Local 
Governments/, Government Technology Press, 1968), based on a series of 
case studies collected in the /Journal of Municipal Telecommunications 
/(https://web.archive.org/web/20030207072351/http://munitelecom.org/jmt.html).

This time, I'm taking the /This Old House/ approach, scaled up - setting 
out to visit & document leading edge projects, applying that knowledge 
here at home,  netcasting the story to the world, and developing a /home 
game/, so others can follow along, form /Working Groups/ in their 
(your!) neighborhoods, and redevelop suburbia for /A New Millennium of 
Peace, Prosperity, and Festivity./

We're just getting started, the more the merrier, please join us at 
/ThisOldNeighborhood.Net. <http://thisoldneighborhood.net>
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Miles Fidelman, Chief Engineer, /Civic.Net / 
<http://thisoldneighborhood.net>
Building a Civic Internet, a /Community Engineering Task Force,
/a Network of Neighborhood Engineering Working Groups
Rebuilding /This Old Neighborhood/ <http://thisoldneighborhood.net>- The 
Internet Way
<http://thisoldneighborhood.net>

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-- 
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is.  .... Yogi Berra

Theory is when you know everything but nothing works.
Practice is when everything works but no one knows why.
In our lab, theory and practice are combined:
nothing works and no one knows why.  ... unknown

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