hi, i'm setting up a community wireless project in the east village, and the time has come to put out an open call for feedback and/or assistance.
the project is called Neighbornode. its basic unit is an open wireless gateway placed in an apartment window. the gateway uses a captive portal to send new log-ons to a bulletin board website where residents of that neighborhood can post messages and communicate with each other. the board is only accessible through the gateway, so it becomes a space exclusively for residents of that street (who live within wireless range) to talk with each other. this basic unit is repeated over and over, with nodes being set up on different streets, open to all residents within range of the node. each street has its own bulletin board. these boards are then networked together, and messages can be passed from one board to the next. in this way a message can make its way from street to street, the entire length of the network. anyone who wants can add themselves to this network by opening a gateway and adding themselves to the central database. this way, the network can spread on its own, without requiring a central authority. i've currently got one gateway up, on 4th st, and will soon have one on 2nd and 5th. if anyone has any feedback on the project, or if anyone has an open node they would like to put a Neighbornode on and add to the network, please let me know. you can check out the site at http://www.neighbornode.net. to log into an unused bulletin board, enter '1234'. this will take you to E. 6th street, which doesn't really exist yet. feel free to post there. the project is part of anthony townsend's wireless public spaces class at ITP. thanks john geraci __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
