[wsfii-discuss] Re: wsfii-discuss Digest, Vol 18, Issue 8

Thu Aug 10 11:17:30 UTC 2006

Dear All
Is there any sponsors to cater for the participants this Summit in
Dharamshala India. Thank You

Gideon - Wireless Ghana
www.wirelessghana.com

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>    1. Re: Happy Summer of Wifi 2007 (Sven Wagner)
>    2. Plug: Open Source Lab Rackathon (Jo Walsh)
>    3. Re: Happy Summer of Wifi 2007 (Marten)
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> Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 21:00:25 +0200
> From: Sven Wagner <cven at c-base.org>
> Subject: Re: [wsfii-discuss] Happy Summer of Wifi 2007
> To: Discuss list on the World Summit on Free Information
>         Infrastructure  <wsfii-discuss at lists.okfn.org>
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> Marten wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
>
> hi marten, hi everybody
>
> That's great, that you think now over some WCCs in 2007.
> but I think, there must be the *Chaos Communicatin Camp 2007* somewhere
> in germany...
> I know, that some of the "Usual Suspects" consider to setup the cccamp
> in 2007 again as it usually happens every fourth year...
>
> ...and if the camp will be reality, it would be during the first week of
> August...
>
> that means, we can plan together the WirelessVillage as part of the
> cccamp in 2007 for the wireless communities like we did in 2005 at the
> WTH http://wiki.whatthehack.org
> I don't want a competition between the different communities, i'd like
> us to do the wireless village together, joining to be the wireless
> village 2007. Coordinated early, we can have a great time there, with
> all the different aspects of wireless community networking.
>
> cheers
>         teefive and cven
>
> https://snr.freifunk.net/trac/wcc/wiki it is still going on until the
> 20th of August... ;-)
>
>
> > I am planning the Wireless Community Camp 2007, and the first thing is a
> > date of course to get focused in time.
> >
> > I would like to plan mid/late July. If possible I would like to have
> > some coordination in our programs. Something like:
> >
> > - Djursland, DK,  first week of July
> > - Oegstgeest, NL, third week of July
> > - Hamburg/Berlin, GER , first week of August
> >
> >
> > Or the other way around, It could be to base a of a "Happy Summer of
> > Wifi".
> >
> > Agreeing on this gives many possibilities to do a larger program.
> > longer/steeper learning curve. And if your would arrange some transport
> > there are hands available to build-up and break-up the camp sites.
> >
> > If there is people interessed in this please let me know
> > by mail or skype ==> marten_vijn @ skype
> >
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Marten
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 12:48:49 -0700
> From: Jo Walsh <jo at frot.org>
> Subject: [wsfii-discuss] Plug: Open Source Lab Rackathon
> To: wsfii-discuss at lists.okfn.org
> Message-ID: <20060809194849.GI3741 at vishnu.tridity.org>
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> hi all; this is basically a fundraising plug / get the word out;
> if this is distasteful, i apologise and advise you to stop reading :)
>
> http://osuosl.org/contribute/rackathon
>
> The Open Source Lab based out of Oregon State University is a lovely
> organisation; they run and support services for scads of worthy and
> high profile open source software projects on a not-for-profit,
> from-each-according-to-their-abilities basis. They are fundraising to
> support expanding their capacity - staff and systems wise - to meet
> the increasing level of demand for what they are doing. 20 dollars
> gets you Your Name On A Rack; "For every additional $20 we will
> increase the font size of your name by 1pt (up to 48pt.)"
>
> http://osuosl.org/contribute/rackathon
>
> Why is this relevant? :) I guess i'm thinking in the background about
> lab-in-academic-environment support for open source and open data;
> these guys have found a good middle ground where they get some
> corporate sponsorship / support which they can direct towards doing
> pro bono work for people with solid projects. I find them interesting
> because they build bridges between 'academia' and 'hacker' behaviours,
> and so it has a different flavour from internal-to-academia efforts
> like http://www.opensource.ac.uk/ OSUOSL saved drupal from an
> infrastructure
> disaster - the drupal community started fundraising 3K to buy a box to
> put in their colo facilities - they raised 10K within 2 days - i thought
> that was amazing.
>
> If i really wanted to ramble on joining more dots, I'd talk about how
> 'easy' it looks to generate a seedpile of support from many people -
> something that neither http://pledgebank.com/ or http://fundable.com/
> quite 'has right'... converting money into some other kind of
> value-carrying-abstraction. When I was in Portland for OSCON (which is
> where i met the OSUOSL lads) I kept being given tokens as spare change
> after a money exchange - either wooden nickels - or quarter-dollar
> coins which magically became tokens - 'this cup of chai entitles you
> to 20 minutes on the token-driven internet machine'. While you're in a
> physical space in which the token operates - it loses value once you
> leave the beer festival or the food co-op or wherever - then
> 'forgeability' becomes less of a problem ... perhaps i should be
> thinking this through *without* a hangover and trying it on the mrsdev
> list rather than here :)
>
> cheers,
>
>
> jo
>
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 22:09:01 +0200
> From: Marten <info at martenvijn.nl>
> Subject: Re: [wsfii-discuss] Happy Summer of Wifi 2007
> To: Discuss list on the World Summit on Free Information
>         Infrastructure  <wsfii-discuss at lists.okfn.org>
> Message-ID: <1155154141.4731.42.camel at workstation.martenvijn.nl>
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> On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 21:00 +0200, Sven Wagner wrote:
> > Marten wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> >
> > hi marten, hi everybody
> >
> > That's great, that you think now over some WCCs in 2007.
> > but I think, there must be the *Chaos Communicatin Camp 2007* somewhere
> > in germany...
> > I know, that some of the "Usual Suspects" consider to setup the cccamp
> > in 2007 again as it usually happens every fourth year...
> >
> > ...and if the camp will be reality, it would be during the first week of
> > August...
>
> Very good to know. I will block that week for WCC_NL and try to be
> there. Is there an url to the event?
>
> > that means, we can plan together the WirelessVillage as part of the
> > cccamp in 2007 for the wireless communities like we did in 2005 at the
> > WTH http://wiki.whatthehack.org
>
> funny, I am wearing my WTH t-shirt right now :), Actually that where we
> got inspired to do WCC2006.
>
> > I don't want a competition between the different communities, i'd like
> > us to do the wireless village together, joining to be the wireless
> > village 2007.
>
> True, that's why I started this thread.
>
> > Coordinated early, we can have a great time there, with
> > all the different aspects of wireless community networking.
> >
>
> Yes and no, I love to be there. But I don't believe the
> whole crew that works for the WCC 2006 and 2007 will go there,
> so at best there will be representation of all communities.
>
> The human mind is limited in picking up information. (especially storing
> data)
> I believe that a five week course (tree weeks events) can deliver a
> strong program when learning from different communities. Assuming that
> none is right/true. All have local bases from best things can be taken.
>
> If the program is more or less the same there is imho not enough time
> and share want we all have. Over here are planning to have
> multi-dimensional program. I 'll come to that later.
>
> But on the other hand doing a 5 week program DK -> NL -> GER would fit
> more. There would 3 intense weeks and 2 weeks for traveling and
> resuming. Together we could some fundraising to do an international
> program.
>
>
> > https://snr.freifunk.net/trac/wcc/wiki
>
> I wish you a very good week,
>
> kind regards
> Marten
>
>
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Gideon Kofi Amoah
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