On Mar 26, 2008, at 9:13 PM, R. Scott Belford wrote: > Three years ago we started a project to put computers and free but > filtered > wifi in parks. In doing so I had to overcome a lot of objections at > the > City level, for nearly a year, before we were allowed to give the > city a > computer lab and free wifi in Ewa Beach.
In fact, I helped build this (a couple C & C employees helped). > After the Chinatown wifi meltdown, our City's CIO called me to see > if we > could install the same firewall content filter for Chinatown that we > had > been installing in the parks. Note that I had fundamental objections to this filter(ing). > Because the project was using Meraki units meraki isn't the best company to work with. > I was then asked to give up root for a box that we were asked to > support and > put our name behind. There were clear profit motives, which is > fine, but it > was clearly not our place to be used this way without a lot more > disclosure > and collaboration. I did not give up root but offered to update the > box as > needed. For pay WiFi (even if the payment is "ad space" and eyeballs) is the Internet's equivalent of the pay toilet, and doomed to the same fate. > I think we saw eye to eye on what happened and why quite clearly, > Aryn. It > was a shame, it was a tremendous lost opportunity, but we were happy > to help > and were appropriately excluded when we did not cooperate in this > unexpected > way. Why wasn't this box a recycled eWaste donation like any other? Jim _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-hosef.org
