--- Five Able <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Check out http://auth.columbusfreenet.org > > You will find more information as well as a list of active nodes and > a > google map interface that will show where they are located. > > Anyone with a laptop or wifi capable phone can see these access > points > and there are quite a few people who use the free access. > > CFN's active nodes include: RideOnBikes, Scruffy's, Cannon, Cantina, > and Gymnastics Unlimited > > Fountain City Coffee also has wifi but they are not part of the CFN > network. > > As for marketing it is hard to do anything without any $$$ and both > Sam Kuonen and I are both feeling pretty tapped out since the project > bleeds money. Also there is very little geek support anymore. Yes, the shortage of geeks seems to be the main problem... > Honestly we don't have any interest in providing wireless for "Arts > On The River." Our primary objective is to provide internet access to > patrons of businesses not to provide booth owners/businesses access > so they can initiate card transactions. So I gathered from the resounding lack of interest over the last year or so since I brought it up. I would point out, though, that this was a great opportunity to generate some community awareness, and demonstrate the functionality of a freenet, as well as to acquire some new equipment for the Freenet itself. I was personally going to fund the build-out myself, which would have benefited the Freenet - and incidentally all the other merchants who are connected to it - in the longer term. This is just of one of the things I've tried to generate discussion about here in the list, hoping to get together with some of the other members when I got here. So far, everything I've tried has fallen flat, so I will probably just start my own Freenet on the PC side of the river. I had hoped to network across the river just below Dillingham Street, but it sounds like there's no one who can get me access to NOC. Who owns the equipment there, if the Freenet is dissolved? > > --Tom > http://www.columbusfreenet.org > > 0x0000 wrote: > > --- Eater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> Insightful article: http://www.slate.com/id/2174858/ > >> > >> If you were going to design "CFn 2.0", how would you approach the > >> task? > >> > > > > Good question, since I have recently arrived in the Valley area > > (finally?) and have yet to run into the first of the CHAOS mongers. > I > > heard a rumour that the Loft has WiFi, now, but no one - including > the > > Loft employee that I spoke to - seems to know anything about it. > > > > Main thing I would change? One word: Marketing. No one I've > talked > > to downtown over the last 3 weeks even knows the name Freenet, > although > > one of them had heard that "one of the coffee shops has internet or > > computers or something." > > > > The Arts on the River event is coming up 20 Oct and not only has no > one > > from Freenet responded to my enquiries about getting wifi coverage > for > > the event, or about hosting on CFn servers - no one has responded > at > > all - I think there have been about 3 posts to the newsgroup over > the > > last 6 months, so I have to assume that the Freenet is at least > > inactive these days, if not disbanded. > > > > Step up, guys, or I'll have to take it over and do it all myself, > which > > means I'll have to bring in contractors from out of town ;) > > > > > >> What if the goal was to cover one hundred city blocks? > >> > >> I really liked the concept of involving businesses in the picture. > >> Getting them to foot the initial upstart cost of equipment (cheap) > >> was > >> good for both sides of the equation, but we never had a great > >> self-sustaining model for bandwidth costs... other than donations > >> (which worked, I suppose, but it doesn't scale.) > >> > >> In other news... remember when everybody talked about WiMAX, and > how > >> that would make community wireless obsolete? Fun article: > >> http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/07/09/27/2013204.shtml . > >> Several > >> years later and it's still up in the air (no pun intended.) > >> > >> Cheers! > >> Eater > >> > >> -- > >> E a t e r > >> http://eater.org/ > >> > >> > > > > > > 0x0000 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 0x0000 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CHAOS706.ORG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chaos706?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
