Hello, I haven't written here in a while. I'll be in the city later this week and I would be interested in meeting up with any local nycwireless geeks.
I am one of the founders of Ile Sans Fil - a completely volunteer run community wireless group in Montreal. We got started 3 years ago, and currently have approx 30 volunteers, 80 hotspots, 18,000 users, and we have created WifiDog (open source captive portal + network management software). Stuff we're up to recently is a project called HAL where we will be running local servers at 20 of our hotspots. It's similar to the BostonMusicProject - except ours is a lot bigger, has location-specific content, and includes video. The servers have mt-daap (open source iTunes) servers running which people can connect to using iTunes or soon just a web browser through using a java applet which handles itunes on bonjour/rendezvous/zeroconf. We're partnering with a local college radio station to promote emerging Quebecois and Canadian musicians. They will be creating location-specific playlists. Additionally we are using the HAL servers to highlight montreal podcasters and vloggers, as well as hopefully working with local artists for location and platform specific art. Also we are in the midst of using our portal pages (Wifidog) to promote young Canadian visual artists. We just finished our first exhibition which involved works from 11 artists appearing randomly across 30 hotspots for 1 week. We will be doing 5 more of those week-long "augmented space" exhibitions. Here's some info about that project (http://ilesansfil.org/tiki-index.php?page=TerminusGrant). If anyone's interested in hearing more about any these things or in telling me about their projects (or just in shooting the breeze) let me know. So far it looks like the only sure time I'm available is this friday afternoon and evening. So I would probably suggest after work / 5-7 pm somewhere. cheers, mike lenczner Links http://www.ilesansfil.org http://www.wifidog.org http://auth.ilesansfil.org - our installation of wifidog running our network (example of partial implementation of the wifidog UI redesign) http://www.mt-daapd.org/ http://www.bostonmusicproject.com/ http://mtl3p.ilesansfil.org - my blog -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
