The Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network (CUWiN), Mid-Rivers Community Wireless Network, and Free Press invite you to join us for a Community Wireless Networking Summit, March 31-April 2, 2006 in St. Charles, MO (right outside St. Louis). "Imagine & Implement: The 2006 National Summit for Community Wireless Networks" will focus on grassroots action; impacting national regulations and policies; and building the coalition of community groups, researchers, policy leaders, decision-makers, and activists working to create better broadband services and telecommunications infrastructures.

With Network Neutrality under attack and broadband service continuing to stagnate, it's time we organized to take the public airwaves back from corporate interests and put the public interest back in the spotlight. Community Wireless Networks are often owned by the communities that deploy them and offer better services for cheaper prices than traditional ISPs. Anyone interested in making the "public interest" the number one priority in broadband service provision should definitely attend this summit.

Community Wireless developers from across North America will be demonstrating cutting-edge technologies; researchers and programmers will discuss recent breakthroughs and developments; and policy-makers and funders will strategize with participants on the new initiatives being launched and how we can make an impact in DC.

More summit information is available online at:

www.wirelesssummit.org

Register online at:

www.wirelesssummit.org/register

Have questions or want to present? Send us an e-mail at:

cu-wireless-summit@cuwireless.net

See you in St. Charles,

--Sascha Meinrath
Summit Director

The coalition of groups, individuals and organizations working to set up emergency telecommunications infrastructures throughout the Katrina disaster area continues to expand. There are now at least four main staging areas (Ponchatoula, Rayville, Algiers, and Bay St. Louis) and well over 50 people working on coordination, logistics, and implementation.

Today we shipped 2600 pounds of phones, computers, and related equipment to our teams on the ground. And more donations continue to flow in hourly.

The Radio Response Website has just gone live and our communications infrastructures (cell, IRC, IM, Wiki, e-mail, etc.) have been fantastic at getting information to our teams on the ground and funneling supplies anf funding to where it's needed most.

We're definitely hitting our stride.

Columbus, OH Team to leave Saturday or Sunday (September 10th or 11th) for Rayville, LA. If you would like to join this team, please contact: Doug Roberts - dnroberts@gmail.com.

Community Wireless Response Team: CRITICAL EQUIPMENT NEEDS.

If you can donate the following equipment, please e-mail cu-wireless-response@cuwireless.net immediately. Equipment can be shipped to:

Community Wireless Response Team
ATTN: Paul Smith
107 McManus Rd
Rayville, LA 71269

Equipment Needed
70 VoIP phones
25 laptops/PCs (good enough to run Firefox)
20 8 port switches
10 Metrix nodes
15 RJ-45 couplers
20 power strips

Blog site moved to www.cuwireless.net/katrina