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.
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:BR
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.
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. (JerritCollord)
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.
- 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 Active PHP Bookmarks (http://lbstone.com/apb/)
- Arrange for offsite backups to runt.
Links FNO MailingList search engine on the PTP site somewhere, also list the URC somewhere on the main template.
Stuff that's done:
Create DebianLinuxAccessPoint image for FujitsuStylistic1000's.
- Add search engine for mailing list archives.
Get Linux access point working and document and document at DebianLinuxAccessPoint.
Install new MoinMoin action for site map feature.
- 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.