Category Archives: Entrepreneurship

I’m Forcing Myself to Post

Apparently I really suck at maintaining a blog. Wait, I knew that when I started Soliciting Fame over 100 posts ago…
Anyway, again, I’m still here. Midterms are done so I guess there goes my excuse for not posting. The cafe is still hanging in there and the Free WiFi Project is slowly growing. I need [...]

Cheap Vinyl Cutting

Running multiple businesses and being friends with similar people we all know how expensive it is to have any sort of signs made. We’re very much do-it-yourself kind of people, so we bought a vinyl cutter.
First off, this thing was cheap. We shopped around and found a cutter from US Cutters on eBay (don’t buy [...]

Mesh WiMax at the Edmonton Fringe Festival

The next 10 days are the Edmonton International Fringe Festival. As part of this the Free WiFi Project (yes that’s the official name now) is attempting to cover part, if not all, of the Fringe grounds. Of course in order to broadcast wifi you need an Internet connection.
Not so simple.
The Fringe Festival is pretty tied [...]

Free WiFi in the Edmonton Journal

An article was published in today’s Journal about the Free WiFi project I started.
An Old Strathcona cafe owner hopes to blanket the area and eventually much of the city with what’s apparently Edmonton’s first free wireless Internet network created by a private group.
Eric Warnke of Free WiFi says the group has set up at least [...]

BarCampEdmonton Was a Success!

BarCampEdmonton was a great success this weekend. There were over 100 people in attendance and it was great to meet new people and learn about new projects and interests.
A picture of the schedule is here:

I went to

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