MyHolston vs Sweepline

At Holston Electric Cooperative (HEC), our mission is to provide safe, dependable electric service to our member-owners at a reasonable cost. Our value is service. Formed in 1940, Holston Electric Cooperative is member-owned distributor of Tennessee Valley Authority power, providing service in Hawkins and Hamblen counties in rural upper East Tennessee. Our vision is to deliver a level of electric service that meets or exceeds our customers’ expectations. Our business goals are: • To supply our members with economical, reliable service. • To promote and inform our members of the benefits of cooperative electric service and of the safe and efficient uses of electricity. • To develop our employees’ professional skills and increase job satisfaction through training and education. • To recognize employees’ unique talents, personalities and contributions to our quality service efforts. • To protect and preserve our natural environment. • To foster the continued residential, commercial, and industrial growth of our region. Holston Electric Cooperative provides electric service to more than 30,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers, has a 525 square-mile service area, and operates a distribution system of more than 2,600 miles with 12 substations in operation. The headquarters building is located in Rogersville and branch offices are located in Church Hill and Russellville. Just like Holston Electric Cooperative (HEC), HolstonConnect is not-for-profit and a wholly-owned subsidiary of HEC that was formed in 2017 to provide advanced communication solutions like high-speed internet, telephone and television programming through a broadband fiber network to members in Hawkins and Hamblen counties. Mission: To provide dependable, fast, quality high-speed internet, television programming and telephone services to our members at a reasonable cost. Vision: To deliver a level of fiber-based services that meets or exceeds our members’ expectations.

Sweepline is a gesture-based dispatch tool for people, spaces, and systems. Connect to a server you run at home — or one shared by friends or family — then send signal events with directional sweeps or taps. These simple gesture can acknowledge a request, unlock a workflow, hand off responsibility, or trigger a physical system connected to the saved endpoint. Sweepline is intentionally small — like a Unix utility for your fingers. There is no feed, profile system, or social network. The app enables team communication, but does not offer direct messages or require logging into a centralized service. Sweepline does its best remembering ed25519 private keys, speaking http, and getting out of the way. Endpoint servers (anyone can make these) define their own meaning: • a swipe might open a door • dispense candy from a gumball machine • turn on the lights • acknowledge a request • dispatch assistance • mark a work zone active • start workflows in systems you already use Messages are signed by default using per-service cryptographic keys so endpoint operators can verify where events came from. If you're developing your own service, you can ignore these signatures while prototyping and later lock it down by recognizing signatures from trusted devices only. This is how you make sure only you or people you authorize are allowed to operate your service. Sweepline works well with: • self-hosted servers • Raspberry Pi projects • volunteer shift tracking and informal help requests • pickup sports availability and score tracking • formal or informal clock-in/clock-out • maker-space infrastructure • studio and workshop lighting and controls • interactive art installations The protocol is intentionally small and open. The goal is deliberate, low-friction signaling across independent systems. Sweepline carries the gesture. Endpoints make the move.