Lafayette Pro Fiber

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Home News Blog An Argument Fact Check On Background Q & A Disinformation Alerts ArtWorks Who are we? Help Out! "We" are a loose coalition of folks who support LUS' visionary proposal to bring fiber to the homes and businesses of Lafayette. Some of us are actively working on this website and our names appear below. Others support or contribute to this effort and their work will also be appearing on these pages. For us, "we" includes all who support this goal. We seek to broaden our base of active supporters of this site and ask all to join us. We are particularly seeking the input of those with hopes and dreams of what could be done with the tremendous possibilities of a universal fiber optic network in the Lafayette community. If your vision is of business, civic, educational, cultural, or any other hoped-for use, please get in touch. The discussion of, and decision about, what we want to do with such a network once it is locally controlled, cheaply available, and universally distributed is the real work of the moment and we'd like to hear from you. Website Workers: John St. Julien : (John@lafayetteprofiber.com) Well, who I am is pretty complicated. But what brings me to this issue and my position in favor of fiber is a little less complicated. I am a citizen of Lafayette, living in north Lafayette, with deep roots in the parish; the St. Juliens have a long history in Broussard and I spent a lot of time at Bon Mama's house growing up. My two children and six grandchildren all ended up here and so it was a foregone conclusion that my wife, Layne, and I would live here as well. So I care about Lafayette and its people for the most basic of all reasons: family. As to fiber and technology, in one of my former lives I was a student and then a teacher of education working first at LSU and then at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and finally at the University of Delaware. Throughout that time, part of my work was devoted to networking, designing educational applications, and trying to understand how we could integrate those amazing tools into the social life of schools and after-school facilities. So I believe in, quite passionately, the educational potential of the new technologies. I am convinced that a major impediment to implementing many promising educational innovations is the lack of universal, inexpensive broadband. No one is willing to fund innovation that benefits only those who already have. If LUS changes that here, any good grant writer should be able to open floodgates of educational innovation willingly funded by idealistic agencies. I want that for my grandchildren, and for all our grandchildren. Closely related to my educational passions, I am convinced that digital divide issues—the growing divide between those who have access to modern information technology and those who do not—should not be allowed to grow. It's a difficult problem and the LUS plan addresses this more directly than any other I know of. Finally, and least confidently, I suspect that having a different, more advanced media infrastructure will help Acadiana maintain the cultural differences I came home for.

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