I am in for option #2....I have a couple directionals and a couple omnis to lend to the cause. I am all cisco on my end...let me know what the next steps are and how I can help. Rich --- Andy Warner <andyw at pobox.com> wrote: > It was fun to put a face & voice to some > of the names on the list, and meet some > lurkers at last night's meeting. Thanks > to everyone that came along, and special > thanks to Steve for his catalytic properties. > > Last night I volunteered to kick off a thread > or two here for people interested in building > one or both of the following: > > 1. A metro-wide network, capable of > moving bits independant of existing > wired networks. > > The goal is to create a stand-alone, > free, network capable of moving large > numbers of bits around the Twin Cities; > including areas where broad-band is not > a viable option. > > This network may host services such as > ftp servers, gaming servers, etc etc. > > 2. Coordinated hot-spot deployment. > > The goal is to provide wireless Internet > access throughout the Twin Cities. Upstream > connection from the hot-spot to the Internet > may be wired or wireless. Provide a common > authentication interface, and standardised > client configs. > > Can we get a roll-call of people interested in > contributing > time, know-how, bandwidth, enthusiasm, <whatever> to > groups > working towards each goal ? > > If people want to answer to the list, or to me > unicast, I'll > tabulate the replies. Then each group can go about > (re)defining > and attacking their problem as they see fit. I'd > like to see > as much content as possible stay on this list, just > so everyone > can learn, and so we don't make little ivory towers. > > I'll kick things off by saying that I would like to > play in sandbox #2 to begin with. > > Questions/complaints -> me. > -- > andyw at pobox.com > > Andy Warner Voice: (612) 801-8549 Fax: (208) > 575-5634 > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Wireless Users Group Mailing List - > Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.tcwug.org > tcwug-list at tcwug.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tcwug-list __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Mother's Day is May 12th! http://shopping.yahoo.com