[PLUG] Unwire Portland public meeting tomorrow

Randall Lucas rlucas at tercent.com
Wed Jul 27 17:48:00 UTC 2005


The city's project for enabling citywide wireless access -- the Unwire
Portland project -- is holding a public meeting tomorrow (Thursday, 28
July) from 5-7 at OAME, 4134 N. Vancouver, Portland.

Part of the project's requirements is that the implementation give a
public benefit.  Right now, the leading proposal is the "walled garden,"
where a restricted list of sites is made available.

An alternative idea, the "drinking fountain" model, proposes to give
free, unrestricted but low-bandwidth access to all comers.  (See
http://rlucas.tercent.com/wifi.html for my position on the issue.)
I think that the Linux community (with a natural affinity for
information-dense [text] network uses) stands to gain a lot if the
drinking fountain model is adopted.

There will definitely be politicos and commercial vendors there.  It
would be outstanding if we could get some strong representation from the
F/OSS and Linux communities there as well.

Official PDF on the meeting:
http://www.pdc.us/unwire/workshop-flyer_7-28-05.pdf

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Randall Lucas            DF93EAD1
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