I would like to be involved in such an undertaking. I plan on attending the meeting tonight. I hope to gain a better understanding of what roles there are to fullfill. On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 03:02:35PM -0500, Andy Warner wrote: >Just in time for tonight's meeting (I hope), here's >the tabulation of my roll-call for people interested >in working towards the two broad goals of an independant >metro wireless network, and coordinated hotspot deployment. > >I had to interpolate some replies, so apologies in advance >for any mistakes. Perhaps these groups can take some >time to get together at/after tonight's meeting. > > 1. A metro-wide network, capable of > moving bits independant of existing > wired networks. > > The goal is to create a stand-alone, > free, network capable of moving large > numbers of bits around the Twin Cities; > including areas where broad-band is not > a viable option. > > This network may host services such as > ftp servers, gaming servers, etc etc. > >Dan Taylor <dante AT plethora DOT net> >Scott Dier <dieman AT ringworld DOT org> >Erik Jacobson <erikj AT tdkt DOT org> >Mike Bresnahan <mbresnah AT visi DOT com> > > 2. Coordinated hot-spot deployment. > > The goal is to provide wireless Internet > access throughout the Twin Cities. Upstream > connection from the hot-spot to the Internet > may be wired or wireless. Provide a common > authentication interface, and standardised > client configs. > >Dan Taylor <dante AT plethora DOT net> >Kent Ritchie <kritchie AT kritchie DOT org> >steve ulrich <sulrich AT botwerks DOT org> >Richard T Nechanicky <v0key AT yahoo DOT com> >Matthew Genelin <mgenelin AT cs.umn DOT edu> >Mike Bresnahan <mbresnah AT visi DOT com> >Andy Warner <andyw AT pobox DOT com> > >-- >andyw at pobox.com > >Andy Warner Voice: (612) 801-8549 Fax: (208) 575-5634 >_______________________________________________ >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 > -- --*--SpencerUnderground--*-- http://autonomous.tv/ spencer at autonomous.tv Key fingerprint = 173B 8760 E59F DBF8 6FD2 68F8 ABA2 AB08 49C7 4754 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tcwug-list/attachments/20020604/f3b5e0e2/attachment.pgp