Ok folks, there has been a bunch of work in getting our next meeting
set up. The next meeting will be Monday September 30th from 7PM
to 9PM at the The O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference located at:
The Westin Santa Clara
5101 Great America Parkway
Santa Clara, CA 95054
Phone: (408) 986-070
http://www.thewestinsantaclara.com/
Additional details such as hotel directions can be found at:
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/19/hotel.html
(We have actually be delaying this announcement a bit as we think we
may have more hours than what I have shown here. We may have up
to 10PM but this is not set yet. Don't count on it until you see
another email confirming this.)
The start time of 7PM will be co-located at the Birds of a Feather
(BOF) session that Cliff is doing talking about wireless networks
and the Mac. The description follows...
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Mac OS X Wireless
Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: San Tomas/Lawrence
Moderated by: Cliff Skolnick, BAWUG
Experts in 802.11b (the technology used in the Apple Airport Products)
will answer any questions and lead discussions in the following
areas:
Extending the range of the Airport Base Station Increasing
the range of an Apple Titanium Interoperability with non-Apple
hardware Software Base Station and OS X Wireless networking
security and various basics 101.
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Our "official" session will start at 8PM right after this, but
please come for Cliff's session as it will be applicable to anyone
that wants to or runs a wireless network. (Plus Matt Peterson will
be handing out 100 dollar bills to all that come at 7PM.*)
What we have planned for 8PM is Cory Doctorow covering some of the
civil rights issues of running open APs. Should be an eye opener.
Cory would also like to you feed back and ideas of how EFF should
approach this issue. If you want to have a voice in this matter,
this is the event you should show up to.
If you want to see more of what the EFF has been up to on wireless,
check out:
http://www.eff.org/Infra/Wireless_cellular_radio/wireless_friendly_isp_list.html
And from O'Reilly's site...
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/19/bof.html
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Bay Area Wireless User Group (BAWUG) Meeting
Time: 8:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: San Tomas/Lawrence
The Bay Area Wireless Users Group (BAWUG) will hold a special meeting
at the Westin Santa Clara in conjunction with the O'Reilly Mac OS
X Conference. BAWUG was founded to promote wireless use for the
Greater San Francisco Bay Area. This meeting is open to the public.
Visit the BAWUG website (www.bawug.org) for more information.
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* Just kidding. Matt will be giving away all of his stock options
in Critical Path.**
** Ok, you got me. We aren't giving out anything 'cept decent
information on unlicensed wireless devices.
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POTS: +1 415 665 3790 Radio: KC6GNJ / KAE6247
"A mass in movement resists change of direction. So does the world
oppose a new idea. It takes time to make up the minds to its value
and importance. Ignorance, prejudice and inertia of the old retard
its early progress. It is discredited by insincere exponents and
selfish exploiters. It is attacked and condemned by its enemies.
Eventually, though, all barriers are thrown down, and it spreads
like fire. This will also prove true of the wireless art."
- Nikola Tesla in 1908
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