surprise! we're in the news:
Sascha Meinrath <[email protected]>
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hi all, there's a very interesting article on http://wifinetnews.com/ about a bsd-based wireless system being set up by a company called telerama. i was skimming through the rest of the page (because it's _very_ interesting information) and found this short blurb: March 23, 2004 Urbana Group Gets $200,000 Community Wireless Grant They started with Pringles cans and moved to ruggedized containers, but a $200,000 grant should let them expand further: In this Illinois college town from whence Mosaic sprung 11 years ago, two community wireless networkers have received a $200,000 grant from George Soros.s Open Society Institute to try to affordably build out downtown Urbana. The Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network has built their own hardware (using Soekris boxes, a commodity platform for community wireless groups) and their own mesh routing software. You can read about the specifics on their site. The software is open source under the BSD license. As with many of the newer or renewed community wireless groups, having an off-the-main-grid local network is part of their goal, which was a concept originally articulated by the folks at Seattle Wireless. facinating, --sascha -- Sascha Meinrath Project Manager & President * Project Manager Acorn Active Media Foundation *** Eggplant Active Media www.acornactivemedia.com * www.eggplantmedia.com _______________________________________________ CU-Wireless mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cu.groogroo.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/cu-wireless Project Page: http://cuwireless.ucimc.org