'7 March 2002 - Another ISP Joins the Crew
WilCooley announced on the MailingList today that [http://www.qcsn.com/personaltelcoproject.html QCSN] will officiall support Personal Telco nodes. They only serve Verizon turf but if you're out there and what a community network friendly ISP, go check them out!
24 February 2002 - Personal Telco Outage
Due to a series of unfortunate timings the PersonalTelco web site and MailingList have been down for a bit over a day. All services should be back to normal now though there is a bit of a mail backlog which may take a little while to catch up. Sorry for any inconvenience.
19 February 2002 - Personal Telco is in the Oregonian
An announcement of the Pioneer Square node and an introduction to the group and its goals was printed in the business section of the [http://www.oregonlive.com/business/oregonian/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/business/10141233403272895.xml Oregonian]. If you came here because you read this article, Welcome! Reading the GettingStarted page is a good place to start answering all your questions. The article was written by Jeffrey Kosseff with information from NigelBallard and AdamShand.
19 February 2002 - Monthly Meeting Monday the 25th
We usually try and meet the last Wednesday of the month but it just didnt work this time. So Monday it is. All the wireless geeks will converge on the LuckyLab for a night of discussion and drinking fun. Check the MeetingAgenda page for a list of what's up. Directions can be found on the MonthlyMeeting page.
19 February 2002 - Wireless Network Structure v1.3.PRE.1 Released
The Wireless Network Structure document mentioned below has now been translated into English. The quick translation of the original Spanish document is at [http://pobox.com/~sjmudd/wireless/english/], and the extensively reworked version pending release can be found at [http://pobox.com/~sjmudd/wireless/network-structure/test/]. Comments are encouraged. SimonMudd
13 February 2002 - Pioneer Courthouse Square live and official
Today we officially announced the node at Pioneer Courthouse Square in downtown Portland. A press release (PioneerSquarePressRelease) was duly issued and we await increased interest. Next month we will annouce at least one more high-profile location using some of the donated Intel equipment.
26 January 2002 - Monthly Meeting Time Again
Well it's been two months since the last MonthlyMeeting but Wednesday the 30th it's that time again. All the wireless geeks will converge on the LuckyLab for a night of discussion and drinking fun. Check the MeetingAgenda page for a list of what's up.
15 January 2002 - Wireless Network Organization in Spain
MadridWireless is working in Spain to build a wireless community and we are about to finish an open model to build local communities in the country. You can have a look at [http://madridwireless.net/network-structure.shtml the document], at the moment only in spanish or the [http://debaser.ath.cx/jorgegv/como-montar-nodo.html HOWTO-Wireless-Node]. You also can see [http://debaser.ath.cx/jorgegv/plan-direccionamiento.html our IP plan]. We will see us in the waves.
10 January 2002 - Easy Street Endorses Personal Telco
EasyStreet has publicly posted an [http://www.easystreet.com/services/personal_telco.html endorsement] of the PersonalTelco Project. This is an exciting first step for cooperation between CommunityNetworking groups and local ISP's.
3 January 2002 - Monthly meeting Wed Jan 30th 6PM
The next PersonalTelco meeting will be Wedensday January 30th at the LuckyLab Brew Pub, check out the MonthlyMeeting page for details and directions.
3 January 2002 - Lucky Lab says OK to DSL
Management at the LuckyLab brewpub, home of PersonalTelco meetings, has said OK to the ordering of a QWEST DSL line! This clears the way for us to install wireless ethernet hardware and have our first public access point in a commercial establishment.
31 December 2001 - Wireless Summit 2002
SeattleWireless is hosting the next community WirelessSummit. Member from wireless groups from all around the world are attending and you can too! The meeting will be rolled into one of the SeattleWireless monthly meetings, expect a laid back and relaxed atmosphere. More details are available on the SummitJanuary2002 page.
14 December 2001 - Happy Holidays!
Well our one year anniversary has been and gone and we're starting to get a lot of very cool stuff done as prices drop and our experience grows. Since many of us (myself included) will be out of town over christmas there will be no MonthlyMeeting in December. See you all again after New Year! -- AdamShand
30 November 2001 - Open Letter to the FCC on Spectrum Policy
Please take a moment to read through Kevin Werbach's [http://www.edventure.com/conversation/article.cfm?Counter=9420340 open letter] to the FCC, which encourages them to allow UltraWideBand and open up significant new bands for unlicenced usage.
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