[wsfii-discuss] Do WSFII Summit have sponsorship for the participant

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> Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 04:17:30 -0700
> From: "Gideon Amoah" <gideon.amoah at gmail.com>
> Subject: [wsfii-discuss] Re: wsfii-discuss Digest, Vol 18, Issue 8
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> 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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> On 8/10/06, wsfii-discuss-request at lists.okfn.org <
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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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> > Message: 1
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > 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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