About The Personal Telco Project Handbook
This document, like all of the documents created by the Personal Telco Project, is a work in progress. Time changes all things and so too the information in this document will change over time. All of the information presented here can be found on our website, the difference being the website will contain more current edits, refinements and updates. Your are invited to make any edits, refinements and updates as our documentation is not only a work in progress but open for all who are interested to take part in its growth. Please visit our web site (https://personaltelco.net) for more information.
License
This Documentation is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license. Under this license, you are free to copy, distribute and display the book, to make derivative books to make commercial use of the book under the conditions that you must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor. Any copies or derivative works must include a prominent link to our website http://www.personaltelco.net If you alter, transform, or build upon this book, you may distribute the resulting book only under a license identical to this one. For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this book. Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder. Your fair use and other rights are in no way affected by the above. The full legal license can be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/legalcode
How To Use This Book
This book was made to help introduce you to the Personal Telco Project and answer the most commonly asked questions regarding becoming a node and how to keep a node running once created. It is not meant to be exhaustive - our web site is the place for that. Nor is it meant to be a primer on the world of Wireless Networking. There is a fantastic, and free, book on that subject that you can download from the Wireless Networking for Developing Worlds website: http://wndw.net . In many ways that book is the nuts and bolts of any wireless network, not just the one we are building in the Personal Telco Project. We highly recommend it to all interested in the subject, regardless of your level of knowledge.
A major component of any learning experience is conversation and mentoring. We welcome you to visit our regular meetings or to interact with us on our email lists and our collaborative website. Information on the mailing lists is here: https://personaltelco.net/wiki/MailingList. Meeting information can be found on our main website: http://personaltelco.net/.
If you picked up this book to find the locations of our network nodes, please visit our Node Map at http://map.personaltelco.net/ . Everyone who uses the networks makes it stronger simply by using it.
Thank you for taking the time to learn about the Personal Telco Project.