You're already far to old to retire. Just go to Brighton whilst you are still breathing. :-)
We see similar goings on in Bath Bristol area too. Hopefully this can lead to some kind of renaissance for UK tech businesses. best Christian Jon Morby (FidoNet) wrote: > Initially you need to be present in either New England House (96 businesses > currently are and they’re planning on building a second building next door to > increase capacity), or at one of FastNet or FidoNet’s data centres, or > connected to MetraNet’s wireless ring around Brighton or be in one of the > buildings that are “adjacent” such as Vantage Point > > There are musings about running fibre from the BDX to the business quarter .. > but that depends on demand > > Currently the council are busy trying to bring more tech businesses to the > "New England quarter" … there are a lot of “fused” businesses (whatever the > hell that means) in the local area already and more tech businesses appearing > daily (something like 100 startups all operating out of Wired Sussex alone - > on top of the businesses in the NEH complex already) > > This is all fledgling stuff, but it seemed worthy so we jumped in on the > ground floor … chances of profit are negligible at least in early days, but > the BDX seems to have the right idea. > > Someone described it to me along the lines of “kids leave Uni/College in > Brighton and have jobs to go to … they can either bugger off back up north > and sign on up there, or they can try to make a go of something in Brighton / > Hove / Worthing / etc where they’ve been living for the last 3-4 years anyway > and maybe get somewhere” … the idea of the Digital Catapult and the BDX and > Wired Sussex / et al is to try and see if we can help make that happen. > > My personal goal is to have enough excuses to move to Brighton and “semi > retire” there … hell I’m nearly 45 … that’s over 100 in IT years :) (but I > will still want decent connectivity when I retire :) > > > Jon > > >> On 25 Mar 2015, at 11:55, Christian de Larrinaga <c...@firsthand.net> wrote: >> >> Jon >> >> Given that you say the connectivity locally is poor and presumably tied >> into the "circuit" model into an exchange fabric how do people reach the >> IX in order to join it usefully? >> >> Christian >> >> >> Jon Morby (FidoNet) wrote: >>> The IX is secondary (and I don’t anticipate a fast start or a lot of >>> traffic, especially not when comparing to other regional IXs). >>> >>> The DX is the primary driver to help kickstart tech businesses and give >>> them a central focal point for innovation / etc … this is one small part of >>> a much larger initiative >>> >>> The distinct lack of high speed internet has been a problem for a long >>> time, the quality of life is there but the last mile is awful and not “fit >>> for business” use >>> >>> FTTC is starting to appear but too little too late … hopefully the BDX will >>> act as catalyst, mixed in with other initiatives, to help tech companies >>> start and to grow whist not being dependent on London for the basics. >>> >>> I guess we’ll measure the success as to whether or not the BDX is still >>> going in 3 years time as whilst it is a co-operative, it does have to be >>> self funding so we need members to join either the IX or the DX or both >>> >>> >>> >>> J >>> >>> >>>> On 24 Mar 2015, at 23:00, Neil J. McRae <n...@domino.org> wrote: >>>> >>>> Jon >>>> Can't help but think that an IX is going to offer very limited benefit in >>>> turning Brighton into a digital centre. They would be far better investing >>>> the money into tech literacy efforts. How are they measuring success? >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Neil >>> >> -- >> Christian de Larrinaga >> FBCS, CITP, MCMA >> ------------------------- >> @ FirstHand >> ------------------------- >> +44 7989 386778 >> c...@firsthand.net >> ------------------------- > > -- Christian de Larrinaga FBCS, CITP, MCMA ------------------------- @ FirstHand ------------------------- +44 7989 386778 c...@firsthand.net -------------------------
