--- Eater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Insightful article: http://www.slate.com/id/2174858/ > > If you were going to design "CFn 2.0", how would you approach the > task? Good question, since I have recently arrived in the Valley area (finally?) and have yet to run into the first of the CHAOS mongers. I heard a rumour that the Loft has WiFi, now, but no one - including the Loft employee that I spoke to - seems to know anything about it. Main thing I would change? One word: Marketing. No one I've talked to downtown over the last 3 weeks even knows the name Freenet, although one of them had heard that "one of the coffee shops has internet or computers or something." The Arts on the River event is coming up 20 Oct and not only has no one from Freenet responded to my enquiries about getting wifi coverage for the event, or about hosting on CFn servers - no one has responded at all - I think there have been about 3 posts to the newsgroup over the last 6 months, so I have to assume that the Freenet is at least inactive these days, if not disbanded. Step up, guys, or I'll have to take it over and do it all myself, which means I'll have to bring in contractors from out of town ;) > What if the goal was to cover one hundred city blocks? > > I really liked the concept of involving businesses in the picture. > Getting them to foot the initial upstart cost of equipment (cheap) > was > good for both sides of the equation, but we never had a great > self-sustaining model for bandwidth costs... other than donations > (which worked, I suppose, but it doesn't scale.) > > In other news... remember when everybody talked about WiMAX, and how > that would make community wireless obsolete? Fun article: > http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/07/09/27/2013204.shtml . > Several > years later and it's still up in the air (no pun intended.) > > Cheers! > Eater > > -- > E a t e r > http://eater.org/ > > > > 0x0000 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CHAOS706.ORG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chaos706?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
