[wsfii-discuss] International collaborations during the Community Wireless Summit [was: Announcing the Second National Summit...]

Fri Feb 24 22:22:46 UTC 2006

Could be interesting to start with experiences like this.
I'm just forwarding to out local lists to let people know.
Maybe we're not fluent/native in english, having said that and if is 
still ok for you and you judge that could be interesting, I think that 
we can find someone from Catalunya to join.

En/na Sascha Meinrath ha escrit:

>> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:42:42 +0000
>> From: Saul Albert <saul at twenteenthcentury.com>
>> Subject: Re: [wsfii-discuss] Announcing the Second National Summit for
>>     Community Wireless Networks -- March 31-April 2,    2006.  St. 
>> Charles,
>>     MO.
>> To: Discuss list on the World Summit on Free Information
>>     Infrastructure    <wsfii-discuss at lists.okfn.org>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 04:25:20PM -0600, Sascha Meinrath wrote:
>>
>>> I would be happy to include WSFII organizing (or even a session if 
>>> there was enough interest.  Only thing is that I'd need someone else 
>>> to head this up ('cause my logistics plate is already full to 
>>> overflow).  If there's interest, just let me know -- it would be 
>>> fantastic if WSFII folks could make it to the summit -- it's going 
>>> to be a pretty substantial gathering of wireless folks and I'm 
>>> hoping to highlight free and open source wireless networking.
>>>
>>> Keep me posted,
>>
>>
>>
>> hi Sascha,
>>
>> Well Rob and I had a chat last friday and we thought doing something
>> really simple and low-intensity would work best, just a way of syncing
>> discussions, finding out how things are going, what people are working
>> on.
>>
>> I'd suggest doing this at the beginning of the conference (ie, the 
>> friday
>> - early in the day - for you.. late for us Urbana is GMT -6 hours).
>
>
> Friday is pre-conference, but we could set up something in the 
> morning. Ideally, we could do this on Saturday morning during the 
> "International Wireless Networks" session -- or even during both 
> times.  It would be fantastic to have representatives from all over 
> the world be a part of the discussion.  The session runs from 
> 10:30am-12:30pm (GMT -6).  We could set up some sort of audio and/or 
> video feed, get an IRC backchannel set up, etc.
>
>> How about an hour and a half of your morning session (say 11-12:30) 
>> could
>> be done as a trans-atlantic (or even global) conversation. That would be
>> 5pm - 6:30pm GMT, after which we could go to the pub. We could use a
>> simple voice over IP setup - or maybe do a video link if it seems 
>> useful,
>> and do a microscopic rundown of some things that are on a common 
>> agenda -
>> just to build on the knowledge of the community at large. Then we could
>> report on this and continue conversations remotely or in our localities
>> after that.
>
>
> This would be perfect.
>
>> What do you think? Is anyone else likely to be in London on Friday 31st
>> of March and intersted in a little drink in the top room at Limehouse
>> Town Hall?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Saul.
>
>
> If there's interest, let me know and we'll start getting the logistics 
> set on our side for this.
>
> --Sascha
>