I could make Tuesday (7th) Jon Kotek > to follow up on this i have selected a few dates that i have available > to me for hosting this event. please let me know which of the > following dates will work for you. all times would be after 6PM CDT. > the meeting location is the cisco office in bloomington (pretty close > to the mall of america). > > i have the following dates available within the following week and > assuming there is consensus and folks interested in attending i'll > book the room and make the appropriate gestures for hospitality (read: > food ;-)) > > monday - 6-May-2002 > tuesday - 7-May-2002 > thursday - 9-May-2002 > > if anybody has something that they would like to present on: > interesting antenna designs, andy's WAP 11 tower mount, pringles cans > w/o pringles and interesting h/w inserted, etc. please let me know. > i figure that this should be soon enough to allow andy to show off his > project and not delay its deployment too much. :-) > > if there is any interest i can see if i can get someone to give a > presentation regarding some of the new cisco wireless gear and some > deployment tips. i don't dabble with this stuff on a daily basis for > work but i know people who do. > > if this is too soon and people would like to push it out another week > or so i can arrange for that as well. just let me know. the > available conference room has considerable white board space and AV > equipment if someone would like to grace us with a presentation of > some sort. > > when last we saw our hero (Monday, Apr 29, 2002), > Andy Warner was madly tapping out: > > steve ulrich wrote: > > > [...] > > > i joined this mailing list a couple of weeks ago and i just recently > > > finished catching up on the mailing list archives. from some of the > > > discussions that took place a couple of months ago there was some interest > > > in creating a real community wireless network but nothing (or so it would > > > seem from the archives) was really done about it. > > > > Ack. > > > > > [...] > > > is there a populace amongst the list that would be interested in meeting > > > and coordinating the deployment (albeit i'm sure quite limited at this > > > time?) of such a network? i'm in the process of setting up a public > > > access point in my neighborhood (NE minneapolis) once my omnis show up. > > > > Count me in. > > > > > i've been hacking on the NoCatAuth stuff (http://www.nocat.net) to talk to > > > real routers (cisco) for the traffic shaping and such. since this seems > > > to be the most promising mode of community authentication i would be quite > > > willing to host an authetication server for local authentication and > > > integration with other WCNs. > > > > I've been doing a bunch of work recently with the hostap driver > > (http://people.ssh.com/jkm/Prism2/) which now supports PCI/Mini-PCI cards, > > so a single linux AP/portal (a la Sputnik(http://www.sputnik.com)) is a very > > practial and reliable option. Heck, just grabbing sputnik releases, hacking > > the server details and putting up our own auth server might be another > > potential option. > > > > I do believe the very first thing we need to come to terms with > > as a group is exactly what kind of network/service do we want to > > build. The stated goals of existing WCNs seem to span the gamut > > from simply sharing technical knowledge, to coordinating/branding > > hot-spots, to supplying a complete local network infrastucture. > > > > I'll go on record as remaining dubious about our ability to provide > > any kind of meaningful alternative infrastucture in the metro area, > > given the flat terrain and low population density. However, > > providing/promoting public access points, with reliable/predicatable > > configuration and services, while utilising wired backhauls (like > > Sputnik) sounds both practical and fascinating to me. > > > > I think a face-to-face meeting of TCWUG would be a great idea, long > > overdue. I'll offer to do some show and tell at a meeting, with a > > re-cased, tower mount WAP-11 with POE, as long as the meeting happens > > before I bolt it to my chimney :-) If anyone can supply a PCMCIA-capable > > Mac (or an Intermec AP), we could do an alchemy BOF too, where Lucent > > Silver cards were upgraded to Gold. > > -- > > andyw at pobox.com > > > > Andy Warner Voice: (612) 801-8549 Fax: (208) 575-5634 > > -- > steve ulrich sulrich at botwerks.org > PGP: 8D0B 0EE9 E700 A6CF ABA7 AE5F 4FD4 07C9 133B FAFC > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Wireless Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.tcwug.org > tcwug-list at tcwug.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tcwug-list