[wsfii-discuss] Re: call for organising volunteers: interfaces to wireless location portals

Mon Aug 29 18:41:52 UTC 2005

I started putting up some examples of location portals.  I've asked
the guys from PlaceSite and Neigbornode either for access or fullsized
images.  Importantly - these two examples are much less about geo-info
and more about interaction between users in an area.

If anyone else has any examples, please add them.

http://okfn.org/wsfii/wiki/LocationPortals

I would obviously be happy to help organize this if there are other
people interested.

On 8/29/05, Jo Walsh <jo at frot.org> wrote:
> dear Mike,
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 11:51:28AM -0400, Michael Lenczner wrote:
> > I don't know if I mentioned anything about this too you yet, but I
> > don't think anyone has done a very good job with the design and UI of
> > portal pages.  The idea of __how the web should look and what it
> > should do__ when I connect from a specific location.
> 
> I think this is a VERY good idea. The Thursday session of the Open
> Geodata workshops is planned to focus on the data infrastructure
> needed for building open local information services:
> http://okfn.org/wsfii/wiki/OpenGeodata
> 
> The focus here is on the back-end rather than the front-end, though.
> Friday 30th the geodata session will be much more 'hardcore', oriented
> towards practical standards and APIs for data creation and exchange.
> 
> So the Friday could be an ideal day to have a design/UI session on
> location portals, attention-focusing attendees from ilesansfil.org ,
> freifunk.net , nycwireless.net and wirelesslondon.info
> 
> I made a quick start on an outline. I'd like to call for volunteers
> to help 'bottom-line' this activity, expand this outline and
> cat-herd contributors. http://okfn.org/wsfii/wiki/LocationPortals
> 
> > Maya and Benoit have worked on that for us in ISF.  Maya is moving to
> > london now and will be attending the conference.  If there are people
> > that you know of who will be attending and who have worked on this
> > problem, i think it would be worthwhile to pay some attention to this
> > problem and see if we can get things moving in the right direction.
> 
> Other suggestions in this area:
> 
> - Dana Spiegel suggested a documentation sprint on FreiFunk and
>  WifiDog , to help others setup and contribute in the future.
> - Saul held a 'Friday Freifunk Wrt Yurt Flashfest' a couple of weeks
>  ago. http://wirelesslondon.info/WirelessLondonWorkshops
>  I don't know if Mute's yurt ever moves from its home in Whitechapel.
>  'Flashing WRTs in a Yurt' is such fun to say, though.
> 
> 
> -jo
>