If PTP can put together a mesh along the route, Stephouse can donate the backhaul as the route passes right past our office. We can provide a 20Mbit circuit for the event. I'd be happy to donate more bandwidth but I doubt you'd come close to hitting 20.
On Jan 23, 2009, at 10:27 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:39:02AM -0800, Michael Weinberg wrote: >> >> Also, maybe partner with Free Geek? > > This could be a lot of work - or it could be an opportunity to > get a little bit of effort from all the "free technology" > communities. Free Geek could supply materials, Dorkbots could > supply artists, PLUG could arrange with Canonical/Ubuntu to pass > out thousands of Ubuntu disks (in jackets with PTP nodes listed). > The float could represent all the communities - working together. > > Of course, if PTP wanted to do something really outstanding, we > could mesh the parade route with a couple dozen access points. > Maybe delivering only local content, so that provisioning would > be easier. A few megabytes of static content, describing the free > technology communities, giving the yearning masses something to > read on their laptops while they waited for the parade to start. > I have 2 or 3 WRT54G's that could be programmed for the effort. > Provisioning could be as simple as recruiting individuals to > spread out with access points and batteries, or else we could > recruit businesses along the route. > > Keith > > -- > Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 > KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in > Silicon" > Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.portland.general/ Etiquette: http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/MailingListEtiquette List information: http://lists.personaltelco.net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
