10 March 2002 - Personal Telco Unwires First Hostel with help from Intel
- Personal Telco, the community wireless group in Portland Oregon has today turned on another high-profile 802.11b free public access node thanks to a generous donation by Intel. This is the first hostel in the USA, possibly the world to have free high-speed broadband wireless. Personal Telco volunteers have just completed their latest install at the Portland Hostel on Hawthorne Boulevard which is part of Hostelling International. Guests can now surf the web at high speed without wires from anywhere in the building, even out in the garden. The hostel has a stock of 802.11b wireless cards to loan residents.
7 March 2002 - Another ISP Joins the Crew
WilCooley announced on the MailingList today that [http://www.qcsn.com/personaltelcoproject.html QCSN] will endorse the sharing of their DSL connections by Personal Telco nodes. They only serve Verizon turf but if you're looking for 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.
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