[Cialug] >freenets

[Don Cady]

It's more than a few dozen. And there are also Freenets in
Atlanta: www.atlantafreenet.org
Austin: www.austinwirelesscity.org
New York: www.nycwireless.net
Portland: www.personaltelco.net
SF Bay Area- www.bawug.org, http://www.archive.org/web/sflan.php, 
www.toaster.net
SoCal: www.socalwug.org
Northern CA: www.nocat.net
Urbana-Champaign: www.cuwireless.net
my favorite (interesting topology) is- Perth & Western Australia 
www.wafreenet.org
Also Chicago, Houston, Denver, Ann Arbor, Twin Cities, Boston, Philly, 
Jasksonville, Pasedina, and Cambridge have groups talking about starting 
them (if they haven't already). And this is just the "big" cities. Towns the 
size of Ames, Grinell, Waterloo all accross the country could have small 
ones going, but they haven't put up a website yet, so they haven't 'hit the 
radar'!

I could go on and on, copy/pasting into the night. There are hundreds of 
these in the english speaking world alone. Although I can't read the 
non-english webpages, I understand they're booming elsewhere as well. You 
can find more at www.communitywireless.org, 
http://wiki.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/WirelessCommunities, www.nodedb.com, 
and of cource google. :)
And yes, SeattleWireless is neat too. They've made TV shows too! 
tv.seattlewireless.net
As you can tell, it's a favorite topic of mine, and setting one up is on my 
virtual to-do-if-I-ever-get-the-time list. (It also requires people who are 
geographically close)

Don
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "reinstall hell" <admin@c0wzftp.com>
To: <cialug@cialug.org>
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 9:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Cialug] [NEWS] War driving reveals vulnerable wireless 
networks


> i'll just keep my fingers crossed. i know in seattle there is a part of 
> town that has about a a few dozen open networks of people who just share 
> files/services/internet access, etc. would be nice if that could happen in 
> other parts of the country. cut out the middleman (aka the teleco and 
> cable companies.) and best of all most of it is open source.
>
> some information about whats going on in seattle is at 
> www.seattlewireless.net
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