SCN: building wireless community networks

[Doug Schuler]

I don't know a lot either...

I did attend the wireless community networks "summit" last
Sunday down in Georgetown.  They had people from the UK,
NYC, Portland, the Bay Area, etc.  Mostly hardware talk but
the Bay Area guy (see www.bawug.org) presented a
network that he had set up at Burning Man.  I gave a tiny
presentation in which I mentioned that I thought the 
social side was *very* important and not to be neglected -
what are these netowrks *FOR*??  Some of the people I
talked to said that they were originaly interested in 
the hardware but have now come to appreciate the social
implications.

I get the impression that the Seattle group is among
the most ambitious and most organized but this may be
just an impression.  I've asked them to conduct a
"Wireless 101" at the May CPSR conference.

As for the connecting loads of people to the Internet
via a shared DSL my recollection is that the people at
the summit advised AGAINST that idea.  This helps promote
the idea that this effort is a hacker/pirate effort.

-- Doug

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On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, patrick wrote:

> Joe,
> 
> Was this answered already? I've had a hectic day/week:
> 
> http://www.seattlewireless.net
> 
> There is not much to having a wireless network. If you have a WiFi or
> Apple AirPort card installed in your computer, then get onto a DSL
> connection, you can have about 50 people logging into your DSL
> connection. That is it, more or less.
> 
> So it is a matter of organizing people to volunteer to have their
> machine set up to be a wireless station while people can securely tap
> into the pipe.
> 
> Patrick
> 
> 
> --- Joe Mabel <jmabel at speakeasy.org> wrote:
> > Sorry about the very delayed reply.
> > Very cool stuff, indofar as I understand (which is admittedly not
> > far: I'm a
> > software guy, not very h/w knoledgeable).
> > Obviously creating such a network would not be an endeavor for SCN
> > as such, but
> > is it possbile that somewhere under the umbrella of SCNA there
> > might be room to
> > start an interest group or something? Or is there something else
> > already under
> > way in Seattle that we could at least refer people to if they are
> > interested?
> > 
> > --------------------
> > Joe Mabel
> > 
> > On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, patrick wrote:
> > 
> > > New O'Reilly book out called Building Wireless Community
> > Networks:
> > >
> > > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wirelesscommnet/
> > >
> > > Thanks to Apple, they have found a way to expand computing to new
> > > horizons with this highspeed wireless networking to a cool, new
> > > level. It's almost subversive, isn't it?
> > >
> > > Patrick
> > > Seattle Community Network
> > >
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