It was fun to put a face & voice to some of the names on the list, and meet some lurkers at last night's meeting. Thanks to everyone that came along, and special thanks to Steve for his catalytic properties. Last night I volunteered to kick off a thread or two here for people interested in building one or both of the following: 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. 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. Can we get a roll-call of people interested in contributing time, know-how, bandwidth, enthusiasm, <whatever> to groups working towards each goal ? If people want to answer to the list, or to me unicast, I'll tabulate the replies. Then each group can go about (re)defining and attacking their problem as they see fit. I'd like to see as much content as possible stay on this list, just so everyone can learn, and so we don't make little ivory towers. I'll kick things off by saying that I would like to play in sandbox #2 to begin with. Questions/complaints -> me. -- andyw at pobox.com Andy Warner Voice: (612) 801-8549 Fax: (208) 575-5634