Name: Adam ShandBR Email: adam@personaltelco.net BR Node Info: wiki:NodeId:111

How It All Got Started:BR After reading about ConsumeTheNet on SlashDot I sent an email message to the local Linux users group asking if anyone was interested in starting a CommunityNetwork and quickly found out that a lot of people were interested. Shortly there after there was a MailingList and this web site and I rapidly found myself organizing a local group trying to build ["MAN"]s and ["NAN"]s in PortlandOregon. So far it's been a riot, we've gotten more done and more PressCoverage then I ever imagined.

In The News:BR I've managed to make it into a few newspaper and magazine articles which was totally bizarre, so I'm listing them here for some ego gratification.

• September 2001 - [http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/business/37567_wireless04.shtml Associated Press], [http://www.news-journalonline.com/2001/Sep/2/STECH2.htm News Journal]

• August 2001 - [http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/169108.html News Bytes], [http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0133/meyers.php The Village Voice],[http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/PortlandTribuneArticle Portland Tribune],[http://www.metropolismag.com/html/content_0801/ob/ob05.html Metropolis Magazine]

• July 2001 - [http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0129/tech-fleishman.shtml Seattle Weekly]

Presentations and Talks:BR

• June 2001 - Organized the first meeting of various community networking groups from all around North America for the WirelessSummit.

• July 2001 - Spoke at Defcon9 with Bruce Potter of the ShmooGroup about [http://www.shmoo.com/wi/wi.htm Wireless Security] and CaptivePortals.

• September 2001 - Gave short presentation on the basics of WirelessCommunities at the ItecConference.

• December 2001 - Gave presentation titled "Community Networks: What You Should Know" at EyeForWireless conference. See it [http://www.personaltelco.net/eye4/ here].

Todo List:

• Wireless savenger hunt (find AP's around the city, earn prizes)
• Get IPv6 into home network via Freenet6 to learn how it works.
• Find someone to give a talk on IPv6.

• Create DebianLinuxAccessPoint image for FujitsuStylistic1000's.

• Add search engine for mailing list archives.

• Write/update the GettingStarted and FrequentlyAskedQuestions pages.

• Find suitable licenses for our logo and web site.
• Fix broken HTML for printing page.
• Add "save changes" button at the top of the edit page as well.

• Get NoCatAuth installed at home.

• Get Linux access point working and document and document at DebianLinuxAccessPoint.

• Find a good OpenSource documentation/wiki license.

• Write "Press Howto".

• Pirate some good FAQ's from AustinWireless' wiki [http://wiki.austinwireless.net/index.cgi/FreqentlyAskedQuestions site] and the BrisbaneMesh site.

• Prepare for potential migration to Phpwiki.

• Write Handout blurb (see ItecHandout) and get printed.

• Install new MoinMoin action for site map feature.

Stuff that's done:

• Get people to put "why they do this" on their homepages.
• Write presentation for ITEC talks.

• Put note on UserPreferences page to note that using a WikiWord for a username is a good idea (by ColinDabritz).

• Get the new BetaSite into production.

• Remove all wiki help pages and point to the MoinMoin page directly.

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