[wsfii-discuss] [open-hw] I am visiting UK/It will be nice to meet.

Wed Oct 29 21:32:06 UTC 2008

I would love to meet up perhaps
maybe I can exchange some news from Rome
:-)

John

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On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:42 PM, james stevens <james at spc.org> wrote:

> Dear Mahabir,
>
> Pleased to hear you are visiting London, i do hope we shall be able to
> meet up whilst you are here. Please get in contact so we can confer on
> dates etc..
>
> Our wireless network is in Deptford - South East London and we have been
> operating and developing it over these last years in phases which began
> in 2001 with ConsumeX and has taken on most recent methods this summer
> as OWN.
>
> Any stats for London networks have to be taken with a pinch of salt as
> they may well suggest collaborations and scale of success that are not
> really not accurate.
>
> In my experience there are very few community networks in the UK beyond
> the scale we have in place here which is modest to say the least.
>
> http://own.spc.org
> http://boundless.coop
> http://consume.net
> http://spc.org
>
> So who else is in London to meet with Mahabir?
>
> easy
>
> James
> +44 7973 318881
>
>
> jeff buderer wrote:
> > Good to see that networks are expanding. For me though it is about how
> > the wireless is used rather than the quantity of wireless deployed.
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> > On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 11:40 +0000, Vickram Crishna wrote:
> >
> >> Nice. Just in time for Mahabir's visit: London trounces rest of world
> >> in quest for WiFi dominance
> >>
> >> "Nothing like a hot stack of stats to spice up the oft-debated, nary
> >> settled question: who has the best WiFi access?
> >>
> >> Well, London continues to be the world capital of WiFi with 12,276
> >> access points, according to the freshest installment of the annual
> >> Wireless Security Survey conducted by RSA, beating New York City by
> >> roughly 3,000.
> >>
> >> Paris rules the year-over-year increase category, however, with a
> >> shocking 543 percent gain over last year, while London and New York
> >> saw much slower increases.
> >>
> >> NYC did manage to capture the top spot in the coveted 'corporate
> >> encryption' category, with about 97 percent of corporate access points
> >> now employing some type of encryption, while about 20 percent of
> >> London's business access points remain totally, completely, shamefully
> >> unprotected.
> >>
> >> We understand that upon hearing the news, Queen Elizabeth promptly
> >> ordered a pallet of routers with built-in firewalls for all of
> >> Buckingham Palace."
> >>
> >> Vickram
> >> http://communicall.wordpress.com
> >> http://vvcrishna.wordpress.com
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ______________________________________________________________________
> >> From: Mahabir Pun <mahabir at himanchal.org>
> >> To: Discuss list on the World Summit on Free Information
> >> Infrastructure <wsfii-discuss at lists.okfn.org>
> >> Sent: Tuesday, 28 October, 2008 6:52:55
> >> Subject: Re: [wsfii-discuss] [open-hw] I am visiting UK/It will be
> >> nice to meet.
> >>
> >> Hello Jonathan;
> >>
> >> Thank you very much for the email. I will have busy schedule while I
> >> am in UK. I will see if I can join any of those events and let you
> >> know.
> >>
> >> Mahabir
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:31 AM, Jonathan Gray
> >> <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi Mahabir,
> >>>
> >>> We've got several events in early November that you might be
> >>>
> >> interested in:
> >>
> >>> http://openeverything.wik.is/London
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> http://blog.okfn.org/2008/10/09/workshop-on-finding-and-re-using-open-scientific-resources/
> >>
> >>
> http://blog.okfn.org/2008/10/08/workshop-on-finding-and-re-using-public-information/
> >>
> >>> Warm regards,
> >>>
> >>> Jonathan
> >>>
> >>> Mahabir Pun wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hello all;
> >>>>
> >>>> This is Mahabir Pun from Nepal Wireless Networking Project. I am
> >>>> visiting UK to attend a conference on October 30. Please let me
> >>>>
> >> know
> >>
> >>>> if anybody in this mailing list is around London and Coventry
> >>>> University. It will be nice to meet you.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks.
> >>>>
> >>>> Mahabir Pun
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
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> >>>
> >>
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> >> http://www.nepalwireless.net
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