Name: Adam ShandBR Email: adam@personaltelco.net
How It All Got Started:
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 then I ever imagined.
In The News:
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. 
There are lot s more articles about PersonalTelco on our PressCoverage page.
January 2003 - [http://www.wirelessreview.com/ar/wireless_adam_shandfounder_personaltelcoproject/ Wireless Review]
July 2002 - [http://www.80211-planet.com/columns/article.php/1402401 802.11b Planet].
March 2002 - [http://www.personaltelco.net/download/propaganda/kgw/kgw-main-march2002.mpg KGW TV] (it's big), [http://www.redherring.com/insider/2002/0307/2145.html Red Herring] and The [http://www.oregonlive.com/business/oregonian/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/business/10141233403272895.xml The Oregonian].
February 2002 - The [http://portland.bcentral.com/portland/stories/2002/02/04/story3.html Portland Business Journal]
January 2002 - [http://www.govtech.net/magazine/sup_story.phtml?magid=1505000000000021&id=3030000000004263&issue=1:2002 Government Technology]
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:
November 2002 - Spoke at the [http://www.sydneywireless.com/ Sydney Wireless] monthly meeting about community wireless in the USA.
September 2002 - Spoke at the [http://dunedin.lug.net.nz/ Dunedin Linux Users Group] monthly meeting about community wireless.
August 2002 - Spoke at Defcon X with Bruce Potter and Tony Kapela about on [http://www.shmoo.com/dcx/DCX%20Wireless%20Security_files/v3_document.htm Wireless Security] and how it effects community networks.
June 2002 - Spoke on the "Deploying Public Networks" panel at the Seattle EyeForWireless conference.
June 2002 - Gave a presentation at the PortlandLinuxUsersGroup first Thursday meeting.
May 2002 - Spoke at the O'Reilly [http://www.oreillynet.com/et2002/ Emerging Technology Conference] as part of the "Community Wireless Round Table".
January 2002 - Spoke at the second Community Wireless Summit meeting hosted by SeattleWireless.
December 2001 - Gave presentation titled "Community Networks: What You Should Know" at EyeForWireless conference. See it [http://www.personaltelco.net/eye4/ here].
September 2001 - Gave short presentation on the basics of WirelessCommunities at the ItecConference.
July 2001 - Spoke at Defcon9 with Bruce Potter of the ShmooGroup about [http://www.shmoo.com/wi/wi.htm Wireless Security] and CaptivePortals.
June 2001 - Organized the first meeting of various community networking groups from all around North America for the WirelessSummit.
Comments: Please leave your name/email/homepage with comments so I know who you are! 
What about the Wireless Commons - isn't it news - and should it require the www? http://www.wirelesscommons.org - a visitor who almost blew a link
I'm hope it's news but I'm not sure exactly what your asking. If you're asking why it wasn't listed here it's because I hadn't gotten around to it. Most of my stuff goes [http://www.spack.org/index.cgi/AdamShand over here] now. -- Adam.