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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Dear Olivier –<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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There is no central location.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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We hope to fix that with our Community Networking Web-site.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Stay tuned for that.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">It will start off with small steps and we will take input (like your input here and from others) to develop the site.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Your feed-back will be critical to ensuring we refine how to best appeal to the community and provide simple/easy to digest information.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Jane<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">Skype: janercoffin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">From: </span>
</b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl@gih.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, August 8, 2016 at 12:43 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>janecoffin <coffin@isoc.org>, "chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org" <chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Chapter-delegates] Solar Shed - Pictures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Dear Jane,<br>
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thanks for your kind and very helpful follow-up. This is fascinating. Is there somewhere an up to date database of community networks, listing the type of model it follows, its reach, and contact details?<br>
Kindest regards,<br>
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Olivier<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 05/08/2016 10:33, Jane Coffin wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Some community networks are ISPs.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Some community networks are their own sustainable charging networks with authorizations and spectrum allocations – providing 2G/3G.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Some negotiate for backhaul and cut deals.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Some train-trainers and create antennae from scrap metal and/or teach communities how to build the networks.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Some community networks (like many Internet start-ups) are given seed-funding and survive on their own through a commons based
approach (like Guifi).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Some may be goobled up by the big guys as they are more “viable”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Some have created mini Internet ecosystems around them – online business, radio stations, and cyber cafes.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Some may fail – like many start-ups</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">We are trying to look at what success models look like and where those have been adapted and to convene folks to that some mistakes
are avoidable.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Each community is different and ultimately some communities are shut out from having lower-cost simple comms due to regulatory,
policy, or corporate issues. (note some mesh networks in the US are not allowed to operate in some zones where big cable companies operate…tricky).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<pre>Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><a href="http://www.gih.com/ocl.html">http://www.gih.com/ocl.html</a><o:p></o:p></pre>
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