Association For Community Networking - Wi-Fi

Community Media Summit - 2007

Tropology — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 12:57:37 -0400

Friday, June 15, 2007 was a very special day for community in Chicago and for Chicago community media. The Benton Foundation and the Community Media Workshop convened a Community Media Summit with the launch of the Benton Media Scan - What's Going on in Community Media a report by Fred Johnson of the University of Massachusetts, Boston with Karen Menichelli, Benton Foundation.

Julia Stasch, Chair of Mayor Daley's Advisory Council on Closing the Digital Divide released it's official report at the summit - the Chicago Report on Digital Excellence.

Wireless Summit, SEO and Civic Gardens

Tropology — Tue, 15 May 2007 15:31:50 -0400

Third time's the charm! The International Summit for Community Wireless Networks is a few days away. We look forward to seeing you there.

SEO and the NPO: Grassroots.org has launched a toolkit for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for non-profits - spread the word.

Civic Garden: The notion of the Civic Garden we've been promoting locally in Chicago (as an evolution of the Minneapolis' "Walled Garden") is being taken up in Minneapolis.

Follow up on Community Wirelsss Summit

admin — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 02:44:33 -0400

I can report back from quite a succesful summit put together by our very own Sascha Meinrath of CUWiN. This was the second such summit convened by Sascha. I dutifully served as requested on two panel sessions that we gladly opened to a general discussion in short order. I spoke more from a frame of community networking than anything else, as my time is mostly spent considering these issue in Illinois context, and organizing with others in Illinois to promote community networking principles and dialogue around them. I was pleased to have others in the community networking and technology sectors present to deepen the points I was most committed to, especially the Ohio gang: Bill Callahan and Angela Stuber. As my experience at the conference was fairly narrow I'd rather open it up to the several other AFCN folk to offer their comments, and for Sascha to summarize his own summit, along with links and references to how you can partake of the proceedings after the fact….

WiNOG

admin — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 20:50:48 -0500

Start: 03/13/2006 - 22:50

End: 03/15/2006 - 22:50

Timezone: Etc/GMT-6

description:

WiNOG, "the Wireless Internet Network Operators Group, is a forum for the exchange of technical information and discussion of specific implementation issues that organizations involved in the design, deployment and operation of wireless networks face on a daily basis. This forum is dedicated to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and experience between these organizations."

Location:
Austin, Texas

Imagine & Implement: the Second National Summit for Community Wireless Networks

Tropology — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 06:56:45 -0500

Start: 03/31/2006 - 08:56

End: 04/02/2006 - 03:56

Timezone: Etc/GMT-6

description:

Illinois hosted the first National Summit for Community Wireless Networks, and we're so proud of ourselves we're doing it again. Well... almost... this time it's just across the border in St. Charles, MO. But as it's being spearheaded by Illinois' own CUWiN project, it's certain to surpass the first.

Let the Midwest lead the way!

Location:
St. Charles, MO

California Community Wireless Summit

Tropology — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 13:48:31 -0400

Start: 10/28/2005 - 08:48

End: 10/30/2005 - 17:48

Timezone: Etc/GMT-8

description:

A diverse planning committee is developing a two-day, statewide California Wireless Summit in San Diego, California, in the fall of 2005, to explore how community and municipal wireless networks can bring the economic, educational and cultural resources of the Internet to the underserved communities of California.

http://www.ca-wireless.org/

Location:
San Diego, California

Wireless Cities ... Community Context

Tropology — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 08:26:47 -0400

Start: 10/06/2005 - 09:00

End: 10/07/2005 - 17:26

Timezone: US/Central

description:

The conference, "Wireless Cities ... Community Context" is sponsored by the University of Minnesota's Digital Technology Center and Digital Watershed. It will be held on October 6 & 7 in Minneapolis. The conference addresses bridging the digital divide, social networking, community arts and services for unwired cities.

Here's a link to the Website for the conference: http://dtc.umn.edu/seminars/symposia/wireless2005.php

Location:
Minneapolis

MuniWireless 2005: San Francisco

Tropology — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 11:09:32 -0400

Start: 09/28/2005 - 09:09

End: 09/29/2005 - 15:09

Timezone: Etc/GMT-6

description:

Conference produced by Esme Vos / MuniWireless.com

Overview from their site:

MW05SF brings together the broad range of organizations and individuals focused on the rapidly-growing arena of municipal and local wireless. The broad range of buyers, vendors, service providers, integrators, consultants, policy-makers, and other interested groups will come together to understand, communicate, collaborate, and plan the developing future of the municipal wireless industry.

For the first time, attendees can learn about every facet of this expanding market, from understanding how municipalities and other groups can determine the goals and objectives of their initiatives, to the variety of applications of broadband wireless in cities and towns across the country.

Location:
San Francisco, California

FCCs Strategic Five Year Plan - draft - available for public comment through August 5th.

Tropology — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 02:31:06 -0400

The FCCs draft "strategic plan" for the next five years has been available for comment since July 5. Please post public comments by August 5th, if motivated :)

http://www.fcc.gov/omd/strategicplan/

let us now deploy community networks...

Tropology — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 01:59:50 -0400

From the www.CommunityInternet.us site:

Imagine a community networking system that any municipality, company, or group of neighbors could easily set up themselves. No need for expensive, proprietary equipment; no need to pay for incredibly expensive "experts"; no black-box technologies no one understands (except the company you bought the system from).

We hold that community networking should be easy-to-understand, user-friendly, low-cost, and available to all -- it should be liberating and empowering.

This website is a resource trove for people who want to learn more about community internet technologies, who are interested in setting up their own networks, who want to understand their options, and who want information from a source that isn't trying to sell you anything. Contributors to this website include experts from across the community networking field -- we're providing these resources because we believe that technologies should maximize the public good, not just profit-margins. This website is an open forum -- if you want to help build this resource, contact the site's maintainers.