[CQ] not-exactly-amateur-related: back-haul wireless to a local disaster services NGO

[Mark Cohen]

I would talk to Craig Newmark (Craigslist). Last I had spoken to him, he was very excited about local community wireless networks. He would be a good resource for such a thing. Also, I believe that the Exploratorium still has a SFLAN link on their roof, its just not on at the moment. They were giving/getting connectivity to the internet archive. (Explo has Internet2 :))

I have a contact there that might be willing to either help, or point you in the right direction.

/Mark


On Feb 23, 2010, at 7:07 PM, Greg Albrecht W2GMD wrote:

> So far as I can tell /all/ of the local wireless interest groups have
> dried up: SFLAN, BAWRN, BAWUG. This is very disappointing as I'm in a
> position where utilization and contribution to a community wireless
> network would be very beneficial to the NGO I'm representing.
> 
> That being said, does anyone know of any other community wireless
> networks in the city? What I'm looking to do is establish a wireless
> back-haul network for the Red Cross to supplant our corporate network
> connection for Disaster Service Operations. Alternatively, given roof
> space and time, would someone be interested in implementing such a
> network with the Red Cross as one of its nodes?
> 
> Contact me off-list if you'd like.
> 
> Thanks,
> -g
> 
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Mark Cohen
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