not sure if this was already shared. jon udell's call for open infrastructure. I think it's interesting when this stuff is brought to a larger public:
"I float like a butterfly from Windows to OS X to Linux. My home is in the cloud, and that's the next frontier for the champions of free and open commodity infrastructure. At the moment, it seems very unlikely that a motley crew of volunteers distributed around the globe will be able to match the economies of scale and the military discipline that make today's giant clusters the awesome powers that they are. But shouldn't we have learned, by now, to expect the unexpected? We've already seen how open source software projects harness collective effort to produce quality results. We're now seeing how open content projects such as Wikipedia do the same. Can open infrastructure be far behind?" http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/07/26/31OPstrategic_1.html also: ottawa/gatineau is a new CWN with an interesting mandate: "ogWiFi est un nouveau reseau sans-fils communautaire d'Ottawa-Gatineau composé d'un petit groupe d'individues des deux cotés de la rivière des Outaouais qui veulent rapprocher le domaine domestique avec le public en créant une infrastructures sans fil communautaire du niveau de la base. ogWiFi is a new Community Wireless Network (CWN) comprised of a small group of people on both sides of the Ottawa River who wish to bridge the home / public divide in our communities by developing a grassroots free and open wirelless communication infrastructure." http://mtl3p.ilesansfil.org/blog/archives/2006/09/15/making_the_break.html and Rob Flickenger posted some interesting news from the SecondLife arena. I sent an email about that last year. My take on why it's important with links to Rob's post: http://tinyurl.com/zqq6r _______________________________________________ wsfii-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/wsfii-discuss
