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Welcome to the SpeedUpAmerica wiki!

SpeedUpAmerica aims to provide on the ground truth about the Internet in America. Our national broadband map provides transparency: real Internet speeds received, actual prices paid, and level of service experienced.

Getting Started

Check out the menu to the left, particularly the "Before You Start" section for information that will help you ramp up, get into the code, and get working. Feel free to visit speedupamerica.com to see the live site and ask questions wherever you can.

If you are a contributor to this project and encounter an undocumented process that may need to be repeated by another contributor, please document it! Let's make life easy for everyone to move forward as quickly as possible.

We do have some organization outside of GH in terms of issue priority and phasing -- if you'd like more information about that, please contact us or message below for links to our slack and any other avenues of communication we may have.

About

The goal of this project is to increase awareness of inequities in speed and quality of internet provided to everyone in the US.

Our project has three primary goals:

1. Acquire Data related to internet speed
2. Display a map of the aforementioned data
3. Increase awareness about our cause and encourage conversations about digital inclusion in all communities.

All of the things that we work on should be in service of the above. If you are working on this project, ensure that what you're doing is in service of these goals! If you have questions about anything, please join the conversation. We very much appreciate any feedback, help, or conversation.

We plan on working on this in three phases:

1. Lane County Release
2. Oregon Release
3. Washington and Idaho Release
4. Additional state by state Release

Assuredly, we will have lots of work in each of these phases and we'll break these down into bite size work increments.