Re: [nycwireless] civic information project across 2 CWN's

2007-03-20 Thread Michael Lenczner
s are their for image rotation, description, etc. But I'm not actively working on anymore cross-syndication projects now though. On 3/20/07, michel memeteau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Any interest in cross-syndicating content from other countries ? On 20/03/07, Michael Lenczner <[EMAIL

[nycwireless] civic information project across 2 CWN's

2007-03-19 Thread Michael Lenczner
Hello, Last year WirelessToronto collaborated with us (Ile Sans Fil) to promote art by young Canadians across both of our networks. I think that was the first time two CWN's worked together to promote content. Now we're trying civic engagement. We just launched a project with the new Quebec c

[nycwireless] Ile Sans Fil, CHOQ.FM and CUTV Launch HAL: Connecting Montreal to its Artists

2006-10-04 Thread Michael Lenczner
a Rossa, le 9 octobre prochain, dans le cadre de l'événement CUTV's Kickass Kickoff. Lors de cette soirée, aura lieu une présentation de deux courts-métrages produits par des étudiants, suivi d'un party tout en musique, avec une prestation de Montreal Afro-beat orchestra GogoJungle?. N&#x

[nycwireless] Fwd: COMMUNIQUÉ DE PRE SS - terminus1525.ca, IleSansFil & WirelessToronto - PRESS RELEASE

2006-09-22 Thread Michael Lenczner
nt à des vitesses encore inatteignables sur l'Internet. L'échelle de ce projet est impressionnante. En regroupant l'infrastructure et la contribution des bénévoles d'Ile Sans Fil et de Wireless Toronto, un contenu provenant des jeunes artistes de terminus1525.ca sera diffu

[nycwireless] new blog on location portals

2006-08-01 Thread Michael Lenczner
the CWN movement, as well as simply improving another worthwhile tool for mobile (and remote) users. http://www.locationportals.net michael lenczner -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/

[nycwireless] beer? -coming to town (Ile Sans Fil + WifiDog)

2006-05-22 Thread Michael Lenczner
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 cu

[nycwireless] some recent posts on wifidog captive portal

2006-04-03 Thread Michael Lenczner
1) http://ken.ipl31.net/2006/04/02/nocat-auth-is-dead-long-live-wifidog/ "Nocat Auth is dead, long live WifiDog" (from a vol from seattle wireless) WifiDog really shines in aggreating content and making it available in splash pages. It can take dynamic data feeds, such as geo-coded or location ba

Re: [nycwireless] Nation: Google's Wi-Fi Privacy Ploy

2006-03-28 Thread Michael Lenczner
at ISF in montreal we have 15,000 users. each has given us a username + password. and we're doing much more than having just a dumb pipe. On 3/27/06, Rob Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0325-23.htm > > >From the good folks at Common Dreams here's some diff

[nycwireless] eyebeam

2005-07-13 Thread Michael Lenczner
Everyone in NYC probably already knows about this but: http://eyebeam.org/production/production.php?page=rdfellows I imagine that NYC's wifidog project + jo walsh's work with maps and event syndication + whatever it is that you guys are dreaming up would be an interesting proposal for them. -- NY

[nycwireless] new wifidog feature - content distribution system for hotspots & users

2005-05-16 Thread Michael Lenczner
Benoit Gregoire and Francois Proulx recently finished another feature for wifidog. Now there is a managed way to send different kinds of content to each hotspots portal page or accross the network. Content types include text, pictures, audio, rss feeds, and flickrphotostreams. To see an example

[nycwireless] local art using portal page

2005-03-22 Thread Michael Lenczner
We've done the first collaboration with http://www.mdcn.ca to showcase art through our hotspot portal pages. check out Cafe Utopik's portal page: http://auth.ilesansfil.org/portal/index.php?gw_id=11 If you click on the "ART" button you are brought to 2 pieces of sound art created specifically fo

survey WAS Re: [nycwireless] rss-y goodness

2004-12-05 Thread Michael Lenczner
Also I've heard you guys (and girls) discuss survey's several times on this list. There is one across all of our portals. Setup by Miriam Verburg for her post-grad degree on administering non-profits. So far we only have 50 replies (including 25 by volunteers) but they keep coming in. Stuff that

[nycwireless] rss-y goodness

2004-12-05 Thread Michael Lenczner
Just thought you guys would like to check this out. We (IleSansFil =wifi community group in Montreal) finally have a venue that has a relevant rss feed. Zeke's Gallery is a blog AND a gallery on trendy St. Laurent street. Zeke's recently become a hotspot with an external antenna covering 3 bars,

Re: [nycwireless] old PCs/APs needed for captive portal projects

2004-10-27 Thread Michael Lenczner
Anthony - have you looked at using wifidog for this? With openwrt it makes a really low cost hotspot. We're still working out some stability issues, but it runs on all of our 9 hotspots now (the X's indicate hotspots that haven't been deployed yet). http://www.ilesansfil.org/wiki/WiFiDog This i

splash page activism [was] Re: [nycwireless] Gotham Gazette Article...

2004-10-19 Thread Michael Lenczner
Cool article. We (http://IleSansFil.org) just did an protest yesterday at the Independent Media Democracy Day at a Montreal university. We set up a "rogue" access point on a university's network (with the Student's Union's backing) and the splash page was set to: http://www.edito.qc.ca/imdd/ Th

Re: [nycwireless] Re: activist use of splash pages?

2004-10-12 Thread Michael Lenczner
that using his > Wi-Fi Bedouin rig. See > www.techkwondo.com. > > > > Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 13:58:37 -0400 (EDT) > > From: Michael Lenczner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: [nycwireless] activist use of splash > pages? > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Me

[nycwireless] activist use of splash pages?

2004-10-12 Thread Michael Lenczner
Has anybody heard of activists finding creative uses for splash pages on wireless networks? Examples like creating a hotspot for the Starbucks across the street with the splash page being "10 reasons why you should buy fair trade coffee"? Google doesn't turn up anything relevant under "splash pag