The next meeting of the Southern California Wireless Users Group will be meeting TONIGHT! Thursday 02/27/03 at 7pm (Pacific).
Main presentation meetings are held monthly on the fourth Thursday of the month. Presentation One: ============================================= Fran McGrath of Colorbroadband, http://www.colorbroadband.com built the recent wireless HotZone in Long Beach Colorband Inc. is a international provider of wireless "broadcast fiber" communication and other digital services. Colorband has engineered the highest capacity microwave backbone network in Southern California. This unique network architecture enables Colorband to provide scalable franchise business solutions, serving subscribers from multiple Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Some topics that he will cover: I. Color Broadband Inc. Overview on Wireless II. Wireless in Long Beach http://www.longbeachportals.com Wireless Hot Zone project. III. The future... Presentation Two: ============================================= Bao C. Ha of http://www.hacom.net sells small low cost computers OpenBrick is a new kind of low-cost fan-less small computer targeted the Open-Source/Free Software community, mainly Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD. It is popular in Europe and attracted a large follow of engineers, hackers, students, researchers, small Open-Source companies, and ISPs to implement ideas of appliances in areas of WiFi, broadband networks, communications, multimedia, and IP telephony. Checkout this example: http://www.hacom.net/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=29 Reviews: ============================================= Mitsumi Wavit11 This unit can be an 802.11b Access Point or a client device. We'll have a review and a live demonstration http://www.mitsumi.co.jp/Catalog/hifreq/commun/dwl/j/text01e.pdf Meeting Cost: Free! ============================================= Agenda (times are approximate): 7:00 Mixing - business/friend contacts 7:15 Logon> Introductions to the group and key members 7:20 Announcements 7:25 News items 7:30 Presentation by Fran McGrath 7:55 Q&A on presentation 8:00 Presentation by Bao C. Ha 8:25 Q&A on presentation 8:30 Open discussion - Current events, news, technical questions, newbie questions 8:35 Mixing - break off into groups of discussions. 9:00 Logoff> When: 7:00pm to 9:00pm Thursday, January 23rd. 2003 Where: Pasadena IHOP Restaurant (rear meeting room) 3521 E. Foothill Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91107 http://ihop.know-where.com/ihop/cgi/site?00006 Note: Please come hungry and support our host. Food served during meeting. Separate checks. This meeting's video will be streamed live see http://www.socalwug.org -- Mike O. www.TransStellar.com -and- www.socalwug.org
