To TCWUG Members, The University of Minnesota's Digital Technology Center and Digital Watershed are hosting a conference on the topic of community arts and services for unwired cities on October 6 & 7 in Minneapolis. The conference is focused upon wireless networks and tools for collaboration over wireless networks. The city of Minneapolis, already one of the top ten "unwired" cities in the U.S., is planning a city-wide wireless cloud, to be implemented by 2007. This conference will bring awareness to the city about the potential of creating collaborative arts and projects in urban spaces. For example, there are many community-oriented uses of collaborative wireless: - Use a WiFi social network to collaboratively plan a community project. - Plan with others an expansion of a neighborhood community garden as you take photos of your prize zucchini. - Broadcast a live video blog of your school's science fair, asking the community for responses to the science projects. Presenters - Here is a partial list of confirmed presenters: - Andrew Odlyzko Director, Digital Technology Center - Dr. Costis Toregas President Emeritus, PTI.org Speaking on the Wireless State of the Cities - Mia Garlick Creative Commons Speaking on Legal and Legislative Issues - Adrian Herbst Partner, Baller Herbst Law Group Speaking on Legal and Legislative Issues - Catherine Settani Director, Digital Access Project Speaking on Bridging the Digital Divide - Will Craig CURA Speaking on Bridging the Digital Divide - Nora Paul Institute for New Media Studies Speaking on Wireless Arts and Culture - Daniel Gumnit Director, IntermediaArts Speaking on Wireless Arts and Culture - Angela Beesley Trustee Board, Wikimedia Speaking on Social Networks - Charles Ribaudo Co-founder, Jambo Networks Speaking on Social Networks - Noah Fields Researcher, MIT Media Lab Speaking on Social Networks Plus a collaborative Music performance - organized by Douglas Geers Interest groups and breakout topics for discussion organized via Jambo Networks Our conference Web site can be found at: http://www.dtc.umn.edu/seminars/symposia/wireless2005.php You can also find out more at our organization's Web site: http://www.digitalwatershed.org/conference.html Greg Daigle Executive Director Digital Watershed m 612 636-7227 gdaigle at digitalwatershed.org www.digitalwatershed.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2430 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tcwug-list/attachments/20050902/1899b8a3/attachment.bin