#redirect EyeForWireless

AdamShand, TerrySchmidt and MattPeterson will all be talking at the Eye for Wireless (http://www.eyeforwireless.com/) conference (different talks) in Austin this December.  Here I'm putting some ideas as I think of them about them for the presentation.  Adam's talk is titled "Community Networks and Why You Should Care".

=== Presentation Draft ===

 * Introduction
  * Adam Shand & Terry Schmidt
  * Talk is a little obsolete now but ...
  * Time for questions at the end.

 * What are Community Networks?
  * Whatever we want them to be ;)
  * Publicly accessible
  * Free as in freedom (hopefully as in beer)
  * Maintained by the user
  * Evolving (802.11b for now) ...

 * Who Is Building Them?
  * IT Professionals
  * Geek Hobbists
  * Have spare time and disposable income
  * Enjoy doing this (like working on the house or car)

 * Commercial Cooperation
  * Building user interest and encouraging early adoption
  * Encouraging low cost technology
  * Different markets
   * Hot Spot vs. Residential Areas
   * Grass roots market probably wouldn't be interested in commerical access (at least to start with)

 * Do It Yourself
  * Educating end users
  * Building cheap access equipment
  * Innovation in access control, resource control and scaling technology

 * Politics
  * Building network equivelent of the FreeSoftwareFoundation
  * Helping bridge the digital divide
  * Internet access for something other then money (FreeGeek)
  *

 * Future Sucess
  * Has to be cheap and easy to participate
  * Has to be open to the public
  * Has to be able to grow and scale organically
  * Has to be pervasive
  * Has to be end to end (no NAT)

 * More Information
  * PersonalTelco
  * FreeNetworks
  * Other WirelessCommunities

 * Check out http://www.afcn.net/

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