Association For Community Networking - Wireless CNs

International Summit for Community Wireless Networks: Call for Panels

Tropology — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:33:13 -0500

CALL FOR PANELS — Due March 31, 2008

International Summit for Community Wireless Networks
May 28-30, 2008, Washington, DC
Send panel proposals and questions to: summit@chambana.net

Since the first National Summit for Community Wireless Networks in
2004, hundreds of community Internet and municipal broadband
initiatives have sprung up around the globe. Internet access is
increasingly important to all facets of civil society, but many
communities are being left out of this communications revolution.

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….

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

W2i Digital Cities Convention: West

Tropology — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 14:17:55 -0400

Start: 10/10/2005 - 09:17

End: 10/12/2005 - 17:17

Timezone: Etc/GMT-6

description:

Municipal elected officials, industry thought leaders, technology providers and systems integrators will participate in an interactive three-day program to explore the full range of opportunities and roadblocks surrounding the planning and deployment of these networks, with an emphasis on applications and services.

http://www.w2idigitalcitiesconvention.com/

Location:
San Francisco, California

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.

Lone Eagle Report on Open Space Austin

frank — Thu, 05 May 2005 00:47:46 -0400

Lone Eagle Report on Open Space Austin

In short, the event was successful and certainly reinforces everyone

Who is fighting for muni and community rights in your state?

Tropology — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 03:19:14 -0500

So, again, are YOU involved in the issue in your state? Or has it not yet come to your state? Is there a site or mailing list dedicated to organizing on this issue in your state? Or were you just about to start one?