Here are a few other projects and resources: New America's - Commotion wireless http://oti.newamerica.net/commotion_wireless_0
IA's project in Richmond, CA http://blog.archive.org/2013/05/08/free-and-fast-roof2roof-internet-available-in-richmond-ca/ OpenMesh: http://open80211s.org/open80211s/ Ubiquiti makes great low cost hardware for building wisps and community wifi networks. http://www.ubnt.com/ Non-profits can get cisco hardware with 90% discount: http://www.techsoup.org/cisco Look forward to learning more about EFF and others wireless work. Mike On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Dan Auerbach <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > We at EFF are writing up a taxonomy of existing "open wireless" commercial > or non-commercial projects that have launched and would love input from > folks on this list. So far we are looking at: > > Fon - http://corp.fon.com/ > Comcast - > http://corporate.comcast.com/news-information/news-feed/comcast-unveils-plans-for-millions-of-xfinity-wifi-hotspots-through-its-home-based-neighborhood-hotspot-initiative-2 > Karma - https://yourkarma.com/ > Ruckus - http://www.ruckuswireless.com/ > KeyWifi - is this project still active? > > We're sure there are many more, and wanted to see if people here could > help by pointing us towards launched projects to add to the list. It's hard > to draw a bright line between what counts as a "launched project" vs, say, > a technical solution. For example, we don't want to include a protocol like > EAP-SIM or firmware that has optional open wireless as a launched project, > but firmware that ships with "default on" guest networking might qualify. > Any suggestions you have are great so don't hesitate to let us know about > any cool thing related to open wireless, just please don't be offended if > we decide not to categorize it as a launched project. > > Our goal is NOT to promote these solutions, but rather just to give an > idea of what's out there, what desirable properties each offering has, and > what properties it lacks. For example, we think decentralized solutions > that have no captive portals or authentication and are universally > available are preferred. > > We still are working on traffic prioritization and improving guest > networking features, and plan to update our openwireless.org website soon > with some research and potential directions for the next phase of open > wireless. We hope that this as well as the current taxonomy will help guide > those who are working on open wireless towards productive work that will > help build the future of truly open wireless that we all want. > > Thanks, > > -- > Dan Auerbach > Staff Technologist > Electronic Frontier [email protected] 436 9333 x134 > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://srv1.openwireless.org/mailman/listinfo/tech > > -- Michael McCarthy @michaelmccarthy
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