From August 20-22, 2004, the Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network (CUWiN), Free Press, and Prairienet Community Network hosted the 2004 National Summit for Community Wireless Networks. The Summit was the largest gathering of community wireless networking developers, implementers and allies ever and built tremendous momentum in the emerging community wireless networking movement. The summit facilitated the building of an alliance of technologists, policy experts, and implementers, and encouraged participants to discuss the great variety of challenges and opportunities facing their initiatives, including:
The Summit was held over three days, allowing participants to engage in extended conversations with presenters and with each other. Attendees developed strategic plans to expand community wireless network deployment and ensure that the federal government regulates spectrum to increase unlicensed access.
Panelist Biographies
Jim Baller is a senior principal of the Baller Herbst Law Group, PC, in Washington, DC. His practice includes a broad range of communications matters on behalf of local governments and public power utilities in more than 35 states. Over the last decade, he has been involved in most of the leading community broadband projects in America, and he is widely recognized as one of the nation.s knowledgeable attorneys in this area. Since the enactment of the Telecom Act of 1996, he has also participated in numerous legislative and court battles over state barriers to municipal entry, including a case that went to the Supreme Court of the United States. The National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors named him its Member of the Year for 2001. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Cornell Law School.
Andrew Ó Baoill (facilitator) - UIUC
Glenn Booth is the Director of Marketing for Vivato. Glenn has over 20 years in engineering and marketing with communications manufacturers and carriers. He is responsible for providing wireless solutions into the rural, city, municipality and educational markets for Vivato. Vivato makes wireless solutions based around their "Smart Antenna" technology enabling communities to build wireless networks cost effectively.
Michael D. Brunelle (facilitator), one of the co-organizers of the 2004 National Summit for Community Wireless Networks, has worked for Prairienet Community Network for more than three years and has supported a variety of community technology initiatives throughout Illinois. Michael holds a masters degree in Library and Information Science and served as an intern for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's U.S. Library Program. Michael recently served on an advisory committee for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine and is moving to Bryn Mawr, PA to pursue a long-held interest in becoming a physician.
Michael Calabrese is Vice President of the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan policy institute in Washington, D.C. As Director of the Spectrum Policy Program, Calabrese oversees New America's efforts to improve our nation's management of publicly-owned assets - particularly the radio frequency spectrum. Previously, Mr. Calabrese served as General Counsel of the Congressional Joint Economic Committee and as employee benefits counsel at the national AFL-CIO. He is the co-author of three previous books on policy and politics and has published opinion articles in the nation's leading outlets, including the Atlantic Monthly, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and New York Times.
Annie Collins is the Chairwoman of Fiber For Our Future, a municipal broadband project seeking to establish Fiber to the Home (FTTH) in the TriCities. She is a longtime community activist and a strong advocate of municipally owned, fiber optic networking for community development.
Dr. Mark Cooper is Director of Research at the Consumer Federation of America and a Fellow at the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society, the Columbia Institute on Tele-information and the Donald McGannon Communications Research Center at Fordham University. He holds a PhD from Yale University and is a former Yale University and Fulbright Fellow. He is the author of numerous articles on digital society and telecommunications issues and five books -- The Transformation of Egypt (1982), Equity and Energy (1983), Cable Mergers and Monopolies (2002), Media Ownership and Democracy in the Digital Information Age (2003), Open Architecture as Communications Policy (2004). He has provided expert testimony in over 250 cases for public interest clients including Attorneys General, People’s Counsels, and citizen interveners before state and federal agencies, courts and legislators in almost four dozen jurisdictions in the U.S. and Canada on telecommunications and energy policy.
Dharma Dailey works on spectrum issues for the Prometheus Radio Project. Her work seeks to find ways to use unlicensed spectrum to bring free internet access, internet radio, and more to communities all over the world.
Darrin Eden is currently serving as Personal Telco Project, Inc.'s president. Personal Telco develops community-operated networks through volunteer education and in partnership with local businesses offering patrons free, wireless Internet access. Mr. Eden lives and works as a network administrator in Portland, Oregon because of the city's progressive policies, thoughtful urban planning and amazing quality of life.
Harold Feld is the Associate Director of the Media Access Project. He is the primary author of many of the current public interest filings on spectrum proceedings at the FCC. He joined MAP in August 1999 after practicing communications, Internet, and energy law at Covington & Burling. In 2002-2003, he served on the ICANN Names Council as representative of the Noncommercial Constituency, and currently serves as the Noncommercial Constituency representative to the Advisory Committee of the Public Interest Registry (which administers .org). Mr. Feld has written numerous articles on Internet law and communications policy for trade publications and legal journals. Media Access Project is a nonprofit public interest law firm working to ensure a public voice in telecommunications policy.
Rob Flickenger - A long time supporter of FreeNetworks and DIY networking, Rob is a founding member of the NoCat Network and one of the primary developers of NoCatAuth. He has written three O'Reilly books about networking, including Building Wireless Community Networks. He often presents ideas and projects at various technology conferences, and enjoys spreading the good word of open networks, open standards, and ubiquitous wireless networking. Rob's current project is Metrix Communication LLC, providing wireless hardware and software that embodies the same open source principles he rants about in his books. He currently lives in Seattle, WA.
Kari Gray is the Program Coordinator for the Common Assets Spectrum Campaign. Common Assets was founded to reassert the public's ownership of the commons by preventing giveaways of our common assets to private interests. While we have three program areas, our founding mission is perhaps most understandable when it is applied to the battle for spectrum and the current departure from Universal Service principles. We are dedicated to supporting efforts that assert the public's legal right to our common airwaves.
Richard MacKinnon is a Founder and CEO of LESSNetworks and the leader of the Austin Wireless City Project. He has built a company around providing free software and services empowering the Free WiFi Movement.
Robert W. McChesney is Research Professor in the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the Founder and President of Free Press, a non-profit organization working to involve the public in media policymaking and to craft policies for a more democratic media system. He is the author of numerous books on media policy including the multiple award-winning Rich Media, Poor Democracy (1999), and most recently, The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century (2004).
Sascha Meinrath, one of the co-organizers of the 2004 National Summit for Community Wireless Networks, is a community organizer, media activist, and researcher. He is the founder and coordinator of the Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network (CUWiN) and the treasurer for the Global Indymedia Network. He co-founded the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center Foundation and the Tactical Media Fund, an international non-profit organization that is engaged in strategic funding disbursements to grassroots media producers in the Global South. He is a project manager for two software development companies having founded the Acorn Active Media Foundation in 2004 to engage in software, website, and technical development in support of the global justice movement. Sascha was elected to the board of directors for WEFT 90.1 FM and in his "free time" is both finishing a masters degree in psychology and completing a PhD at the University of Illinois, Institute for Communications Research.
Zach Miller has been a systems administrator and web programmer since 1993. He's received degrees in both Computer Science and Linguistics from the University of Illinois. He specializes in network design and management, web design and programming, organizational database development, system administration, and information processing. Zach speaks Perl as a fluent second language. Zach is a co founder of the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center, the Prairie Green Party, and the Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Project. In his spare time, Zach likes to ride bicycles and smash imperialism.
Russell Newman (facilitator) is Program Manager for Free Press. He oversees initiatives ranging from grassroots organization to new research projects. Previous to joining Free Press, he was a professional multimedia designer. He also served as production designer on several independent films and was active in radio for nearly a decade. He holds a degree in Brain and Cognitive Science from MIT.
Michael Oh is President and Founder of the Boston-based IT consultancy, Tech Superpowers, Inc. and founder of NewburyOpen.net, Boston's largest Community Wireless Network. A graduate of MIT, he has constructed one of the most widely-distributed models for free wireless, called the Urban Hotzone Business Model. Started in 2002, before for-pay WiFi was even a blip on the map, NewburyOpen.net was one of the first commercial WiFi hotzones - and the only based on the idea of corporate sponsorship at the time. Since then, NewburyOpen.net has grown to 15 locations in central Boston, and others have sprung up in other nearby cities like Salem, MA and Portsmouth, NH.
Michael Peralta is a Native American Indian of Luiseno descent. He is a member of the Rincon Band of Mission Indians. He resides on the Rincon Indian Reservation in San Diego County in Southern California. He has attended college at Palomar Community College in San Marcos, Ca. Mr. Peralta has spent the last 5 years as a Tutor/Mentor for youth on the Rincon Indian Reservation. He has been devoted to motivating the youth to pursue higher education and helping them become positive influences in the community. For the last 2 years he has been working for the Tribal Digital Village in an effort to bridge the technological divide that exists for Native American Indians in San Diego County. The Tribal Digital Village has created a High Speed Broadband Network connecting the 18 reservations in San Diego County. Their goal is to provide access to technology and the information highway to the underrepresented peoples of San Diego County. Mr. Peralta has also partnered with his co-workers to start a wireless technology company called Tribal Technologies. Tribal Technologies is currently planning several wireless deployments throughout Southern California.
Matt Peterson founded the Bay Area Wireless Users Group (BAWUG) in September 2000. BAWUG pioneered the 'WUG' concept of spreading unbiased CWN and related technical information to audiences worldwide. Mr. Peterson's work in wireless security and advocacy has been chronicled in The Wall Street Journal, Wired, BBC and other media. Matt is currently a SysAdmin at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit law firm specializing in digital rights. During rare offline stints, Matt enjoys traveling in South East Asia along with analog photography.
Chase Phillips is a Systems Programmer at the University of Illinois's National Center for Supercomputing Applications with 9 years of system administration experience and 4 years of software development experience. Chase holds a Bachelor's of Science from Tulane University with a CS major and minors in Math and Philosophy. A supporter of radio spectrum policy reform, he volunteers his time to help community wireless networking through activism, software development, and maintenance. He currently serves as the CUWiN project webmaster and as a CUWiN project developer.
Victor Pickard (facilitator) is a doctoral student at the University of Illinois where his research focuses on communications policy, political communication and democratic theory. He holds an MA in communications from the University of Washington in Seattle where he worked with the Center for Communication and Civic Engagement, the Reclaim the Media Conference, and the Seattle Independent Media Center.
Steve Pierce is a long-time media activist, currently working on some of the cable franchise renewals in the sixty communities comprising the New York State Capital Region. He helped organize the Hudson Mohawk Independent Media Center, and has been involved with grassrooots community radio for the past 25 years. He was formerly executive director of the Deep Dish TV Network, assistant manager of the Pacifica Foundation's WBAI in NYC, and program director of WWOZ in New Orleans. His academic work, for which he reeceived an MS and PhD from the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, focuses on media and democracy.
Tim Pozar - Technical Director of Electronic Frontier Foundation. Pozar has spent much of his career working to ensure that media such as the Internet will stay "democratic." As such, he was an early activist, entrepreneur, and developer in the Internet. He co-founded or was involved in the early stages of a number of companies, such as TLGnet (San Francisco's first ISP), Internet Archive/Alexa Internet, and Brightmail (the first commercial anti-spam company). For 25 years before this, Pozar was a radio broadcast engineer for commercial and community radio stations throughout the west coast. He has also had his hand in starting a number of community radio stations. In keeping with his interests and experience, Pozar is also active in community wireless networking. He is a co-founder of the Bay Area Wireless User Group, and the founder of the Bay Area Research Wireless Network (BARWN). BARWN studies the issues involved in deploying wireless high-speed Internet access in both urban and rural settings, to start to address the digital divide. Pozar is a long-time resident of San Francisco, where he lives near the beach (good ground conductivity) with his wife and son.
Matthew Rantanen was born in Washington, D.C. in 1969, an American, a descendant of The Cree Indian Nation, Finland & Scandinavia. His immediate family moved quite a bit until he was 14. His family followed his father's career in the Air Force and then the private Thoroughbred Veterinary World, taking him to Germany, Texas, Washington State, Kentucky, and California. He graduated from Washington State University in 1992 with a B.F.A., Graphic Design He then moved to San Diego, CA and started a Freelance Design Business, MRRDesign, which led him to a fulltime position as a Senior Web Designer, Artist, and Animator for Blue Mountain Arts / Bluemountain.com / Excite @ Home from 1994-2001, this position exposed him to technology in every aspect. He is fluent in Computer Graphics Applications, Website Construction and Management, and well-versed in networking and troubleshooting of computer problems. He is currently the Director of Technology and Web Services for SCTCA/Tribal Digital Village providing IT and Infrastructure Team Management and Solutions. He has been with SCTCA and the Tribal Digital Village since 2001. As part of this role he also provides technical advice and creates and manages all of the web entities that support SCTCA and the Tribal Digital Village.
Greg Richardson is the founder and President of Civitium LLC, a consulting firm focused on the concept of Digital Cities. Prior to founding Civitium, Greg was the Wireless Consulting Director for Siemens in the U.S., where he lead the wireless broadband consulting engagement for Houston County Georgia, which was co-sponsored by Intel, Siemens and Alvarion. Prior to Siemens, Greg was a founder and the VP of Professional Services for Wireless Knowledge, a pioneering joint venture between Microsoft and QUALCOMM. He is also an author of numerous publications and a regular speaker at wireless broadband industry events.
Charlie Ridgway is a newcomer to the world of wireless. He is an active member of NYCwireless where he is a member of the installer cadre and the Social Impact and Applications SIGs. Charlie is an emergency manager who has recently left the public sector and is currently searching for his next challenge.
Paul Riismandel has been an active participant, producer and researcher in non-commercial and community media for the last fifteen years. He hosts a weekly radio program called Mediageek (http://www.mediageek.org) which focuses on grassroots and community media, emphasizing how we can make media that is more responsive to the needs of individuals and communities. Paul is also a co-founder of the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center, currently active with its video collective. He has been working with streaming media technologies for eight years, and his day job involves producing and administering streaming media resources for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at UIUC. Paul brings these ideas and pursuits together in his doctoral work at the Institute of Communications Research.
Christian Sandvig is an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he studies communication technology and public policy. He currently leads a research project funded by the National Science Foundation to study the cooperative provision of wireless broadband. He recently served as Markle Foundation Information Policy Fellow at Oxford University and has been named a "next-generation leader in science and technology policy" in a junior faculty competition sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Dan Schiller is Research Professor in the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a communication historian whose interests center on telecommunications history, and on the role of cultural production in the socio-economic development of the market system. His books are Digital Capitalism: Networking the Global Market System (MIT, April, 1999); Theorizing Communication: A Historical Reckoning (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996); Telematics and Government (Norwood: Ablex, 1982);and Objectivity and the News: The Public and the Rise of Commercial Journalism (Philadelphia: Univ of Penn. Press, 1981).
Ben Scott (facilitator) is a Policy Analyst in the Washington office of Free Press. Previously, he served as a Legislative Fellow in the House of Representatives, handling telecommunications policy in the office of Congressman Bernie Sanders (I-VT). He is also currently completing his doctoral work at the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has written several articles on the history of American journalism and media policy making. Most recently, he is the editor, with Robert W. McChesney, of Our Unfree Press: 100 Years of Radical Media Criticism (2004).
Josh Silver is the Managing Director of Free Press, a national media reform organization dedicated to the democratization of media policy debates. Previously, he was the campaign manager of the successful ballot initiative for Clean Elections in Arizona in 1998. Since then, he spent three years as director of development for the cultural arm of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. He is the former director of an international youth exchange program, and worked with youth at risk. He has published several articles on media policy, campaign finance and other public policy issues.
Cliff Skolnick is the CTO of Iron Systems. He is an active participant in the community networks movement and a founding member of the Bay Area Wireless User Group (BAWUG), the Apache Group/Apache Software Foundation, and FreeNetworks.org. He has over 15 years of experience in the field of Internet servers, security, and connectivity. Cliff was also co-founder and Chief Information Officer(CIO) of Organic Online. Before Organic, Cliff applied his networking and software skills at Sun Microsystems in the Internet engineering group as the project lead on one of the Internet Firewall Projects. Cliff also worked at Sun as a developer in the Clustered Systems group, and as part of the Sun Professional Services organization.
Paul Smith is the CNT's webmaster and systems administrator, as well as the technical lead on the Wireless Community Network project. He's been with the Center for Neighborhood Technologies since 1999.
Jim Snider is a Senior Research Fellow at the New America Foundation. His work focuses on reforming America's telecommunications policies. Mr. Snider holds degrees from Northwestern University and Harvard Business School. He is the co-author of Future Shop, one of the first books on the emerging area of e-commerce. He has also published numerous reports, including the acclaimed Citizen's Guide to the Airwaves.
Dana Spiegel is a distinguished software consultant and founder of sociableDESIGN, a software and consulting firm that specializes in social software and wireless technology research and development. He has worked with industry leading companies including Yahoo!, Nike, Primedia, IBM, ComputerRepair.com, and Bloostone to develop products and programs that utilize innovative social software (including online messaging, chat, and social network analysis and visualization) and wireless technologies. Recently, Dana helped Yahoo! develop a grassroots marketing campaign to showcase Online Holiday Shopping at the Yahoo! Shopping Stores, which included the development of custom Wireless Christmas Trees that provided free public Wi-Fi and broadcast a customized Yahoo! Shopping website into public spaces in New York City and Chicago. Dana holds a Bachelors Degree in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from MIT and a Masters Degree in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Laboratory's Sociable Media Group. Dana also serves as a member of the Board of Directors for NYCwireless, a New York City non-profit organization. Dana serves as a member of the Board of Directors of NYCwireless, a high-profile, non-profit public interest group advocating the development of free public wireless networks. He is currently producing Spectropolis: Mobile Media, Art and the City (www.spectropolis.info), a three-day event on October 1, 2, and 3 that highlights the diverse ways artists, technical innovators and activists are using communication technologies to generate new urban experience and public voice. The event explores what is possible when wireless communications (both new and old), mobile devices and media converge in public space. In September 2003, he produced America's first Wireless Art festival, the Wireless Park Lab Days, to critical acclaim. The event showcased up-and-coming new media artists whose work explored the convergence of wireless technologies and public spaces. Dana is also NYCwireless' Director of Community Applications, leading a team to develop software applications that build and support online wireless communities
Heather Stewart is the Research and Policy Coordinator for Common Assets. She is currently a librarian-in-training at San Jose State University. You can generally find her riding a bike, gardening in her yard, or reading about copyright law. Common Assets was founded to reassert the public's ownership of the commons by preventing giveaways of our common assets to private interests. Common Assets works in three program areas: water, energy, and spectrum.
Jack Unger, the founder and President of Ask-Wi.Com, Inc. (formerly Wireless InfoNet) may be the "Grandfather" of the license-free wireless Internet community. He has provided continuous network design, installation, training, consulting, on-site troubleshooting, and technical writing for the WISP industry since 1993. He deployed one of the first public wireless Internet POPs (1995), presented the world's first vendor-neutral broadband wireless WAN deployment workshops (2001), and wrote the industry's first WISP deployment handbook, "Deploying License-Free Wireless Wide-Area Networks" (2003). His book, although strictly vendor-neutral, was published by Cisco Press.
Emy Tseng is currently Senior Policy Analyst for the Community Technology Foundation of California and Director of the Technology Funders Collaborative. Previously, she worked at the Ford Foundation on issues of information and communications policy. She has consulted on technology policy and strategy for Consumers Union and for several community networking projects including NYCwireless. Emy has twelve years experience in the software industry as an engineer, project manager and software architect. Emy received a Master of Science degree from MIT’s Technology and Policy Program (TPP) and a Bachelor of Science degree in Math/Physics from Brown University.
Antwuan Wallace is a social justice advocate who helps construct policy innovations for politically-marginalized and economically-stratified communities. He serves as the Senior Research Associate for BCT Partners, an IT management and policy consulting firm. A doctoral candidate in Policy Analysis at New School University and a Research Assistant at the Community Research Development Center, his dissertation investigates informal learning and social construction by youth-of-color within community-based organizations. He holds a B.A. from Hampton University and a MPA from Indiana University-Bloomington.
David Young graduated from Cornell University in 1999, with a bachelor's degree in computer science. He is a software engineer with OJC Technologies in Urbana, Illinois. For three years, he has dedicated himself to lead software development for the Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network (CUWiN). His professional goal is to support grassroots networking initiatives around the world, by writing open-source software that runs large-scale rooftop mesh networks.
The schedule for the 2004 NSCWN is currently being finalized. Please note that the following schedule is a work in progress and is subject to revision as panelists confirm their availability. All locations listed are at the Siebel Center unless otherwise specified. Times provided are Central Daylight Time. Click on panelists' names for biographical information.
Provisional Schedule
FRIDAY 2:00pm-6:00pm Check-in/Registration, Open House, Social, and Demonstrations 4:00pm-6:00pm Siebel Center researchers present advanced applications for wireless technologies - Seminar Room (2405)
- Ellick Chan
- Jalal Almuhtadi
- Chad Peiper
6:00pm-7:30pm Opening Plenary -- Auditorium 7:30pm-9:00pm Dinner (on your own) 9pm CUWiN Open House, 115 W. Main St. 2nd Floor, Urbana After 9pm Friday night social -- location TBA SATURDAY 9:00am-10:30am Saturday Breakfast, Social, Registration, and Demonstrations - 2nd floor common space 10:30am-12:30pm
Session 1A - Room 3401 Introduction to CWN Technology
- Rob Flickenger
- Zach Miller
- Matt Peterson
- Jack Unger
- Russ Newman (facilitator)
Session
1B - Room 3403Organizational Models for CWNs
Session 1C - Room 3505 Spectrum Policy: what's going on
- Harold Feld
- Tim Pozar
- Greg Rose
- Jim Snider
- Josh Silver (facilitator)
12:30pm-2:00pm Saturday Lunch, Social, & Exhibitors - 2nd floor common space 2:00pm-4:00pm
Session 2A - Room 3401 Hardware in Depth
- Glenn Booth
- Zach Miller
- Michael Peralta
- Matt Peterson
- Chase Phillips (facilitator)
Session 2B - Room 3403 Building a Municipal Wireless Model
- Jim Baller
- Annie Collins
- Greg Richardson
- Kari Gray and Heather Stewart (facilitators)
Session 2C - Room 3405 Spectrum Policy: what can we do
- Mark Cooper
- Harold Feld
- Robert McChesney
- Dan Schiller
- Ben Scott (facilitator)
4:00pm-4:30pm Break 4:30pm-6:30pm
Session 3A - Room 3401 Software in Depth
- Darrin Eden
- Rob Flickenger
- Paul Smith
- David Young
- Michael Brunelle (facilitator)
Session 3B - Room 3403 Community Media and CWNs
Session 3C - Room 3405 Building local, national, and international coalitions
- Sascha Meinrath
- Christian Sandvig
- Josh Silver
- Emy Tseng
- Victor Pickard (facilitator)
6:30pm-8:00pm Dinner (on your own) 8:00pm-??? Saturday Evening Social SUNDAY 9:00am - 10:30am Sunday Breakfast, Social, Registration, and Demonstrations - 2nd floor commons 10:30am-12:50pm Plenary: Strategizing & Next Steps - Seminar Room
- Breakout into tracks (20 minutes)
- Tracks prioritize ideas/action items (60 minutes)
- Reconvene to discuss issues as a whole (60 minutes)
1:00pm-1:50pm Sunday Lunch, Social, & Demonstrations - 2nd floor common space 2:00pm-3:30pm Closing Plenary -- Seminar Room The 2004 National Summit for Community Wireless Networks will distinguish itself from typical technical and academic conferences by engaging all participants in an ongoing dialogue that encourages a strategic approach to community wireless network development and spectrum policy reform. Panelists will not simply present their own work and opinions - they will also serve as facilitators of a process that records lessons learned and produces a comprehensive "to-do list" of action items for the coming months and years. While three days may not be long enough to develop a truly comprehensive strategic plan that everyone can agree to follow, this Summit represents a significant opportunity for thinkers, developers, and stakeholders to produce substantial recommendations for the future success of community wireless networks; the opportunity will not be squandered.
Each discussion session will include a facilitator who will be responsible for managing the interaction between the panelists and other participants in the room. Panelists will be given adequate time to present their experiences and recommendations, and the audience will be encouraged to engage the panelists in dialogue. Panelists will also be encouraged to interact directly with each other. Questions will be asked, answers may or may not be provided, and all the while, the facilitator will be recording good ideas, lessons learned, questions to be considered, and things to do. Near the end of each session, the facilitator will share what has been recorded so far, and all participants will assist in approving or modifying the list. Think of this as a brainstorming session - nothing should be taken off the lists, but corrections and clarifications to existing items may be allowed and new ideas can be added. This collection of ideas and recommendations will be considered again, along with the collections produced in other sessions, during Sunday's "Strategizing/Next Steps" plenary session.
The Strategizing/Next Steps session will allow for the prioritization and consolidation of recommendations and for the beginning of the production of a document or series of documents that records, as much as possible, the relevant collective knowledge and consensus of Summit participants. The resulting document(s) will be made available to all participants under a Creative Commons licenses and as a Wiki to allow ongoing modification.
PHOTOS:
FRIDAY:
- Opening Penary
- Video: Opening Plenary (Streaming Real Player)
- Video: Opening Plenary (MP4)
- Jim Baller: Power Point Presentation (1.7Mb)
SATURDAY:
- Session 1A -- Introduction to Community Wireless Networking Technology
- Session 1B -- Organizational Models for Community Wireless Networks
- 1B Streaming Video
- 1B Streaming Audio
- 1B Session Notes (Wiki)
- Michael Oh PDF Presentation (3.5Mb)
- Richard MacKinnon Power Point Presentation (668k)
- Session 1C -- Spectrum Policy: What's going on in Washington?
- Session 2A -- Community Wireless Networking Hardware In Depth
- Session 2B -- Building a Municipal Wireless Model
- Session 2C -- Spectrum Policy: What can we do about it?
- Session 3A -- Community Wireless Networking Software In Depth
- 3A Streaming Video (Coming VERY Soon!)
- 3A Streaming Audio (Coming VERY Soon!)
- 3A Session Notes (Wiki)
- Darrin Eden: PDF Presentation (1.8MB)
- Session 3B -- Community Media and Community Wireless Networks
- 3B Streaming Video (Coming VERY Soon!)
- 3B Streaming Audio (Coming VERY Soon!)
- 3B Session Notes (Wiki)
- Charlie Ridgway: Power Point Presentation (208k)
- Steve Pierce: Outcomes of Recent Cable Franchise Renewals (PDF Handout)
(236k)- Steve Pierce: Cable Franchise Renewal Process Overview (PDF Handout)
(62k)- Steve Pierce: PEG Access Basics (PDF Handout) (94k)
- Dana Spiegel: Power Point Presentation (1.8MB)
- Session 3C -- Building Local, National, and International CWN Coalitions
- 3C Streaming Video (Coming VERY Soon!)
- 3C Streaming Audio (Coming VERY Soon!)
- 3C Session Notes (Wiki)
SUNDAY:
- Session Notes
- Technology Brainstorm Notes
- Organizational Brainstorm Notes
- Policy Brainstorm Notes
- STRATEGIZING/NEXT STEPS Notes
- Video: Closing Plenary (Streaming Real Player)
Streaming video provided by ATLAS (you can download the free real-player here). Also, if you don't want to stream/use real player, do not worry, downloadable videos will also be made available in mpeg4 and the audio in mp3 and ogg vorbis.
Are you having trouble getting high quality video and audio from the streams even though you have broadband?
Make sure that your Real Player is set for the kind of bandwidth you have:Click Tools>>Preferences
Then click on Connection in the left hand column.The easiest thing to do is to click the Test Connection button and have Real Player select the proper bandwidth setting. Otherwise, if you know the type of connection you have, select it. The streaming videos are optimized for higher bandwidth, of 256kbps or higher.
The 2004 NSCWN will be attended by technology and policy leaders, decision-makers, students, researchers, and other participants in wireless networking and community networking initiatives. Individuals affiliated with the following organizations and projects are expected to attend*:
* Please note that participation by individuals affiliated with the organizations listed above does not necessarily imply endorsement, partnership, or formal participation by the organizations themselves. Please see the schedule of events for a full list
of presenters.
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