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 [...]
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 [...]
This morning I noticed that Open-Mesh introduced a new logo.
I certainly hope it’s a stop-gap before a better logo because this one looks like someone spent five minutes learning Photoshop while making it.
To Mike and anyone involved with Open-Mesh, I suggest you check out Worth1000. It’s an awesome site where you can get a really [...]
I’m lazy so I’ll copy the email I sent to friends about the status of my Free WiFi project.
Hi guys,
I thought I’d start sending out updates via email for now until I get the motivation to blog them. Eventually I’d like to have a wiki of sorts for community wifi projects and the like.
Anyhoo:
I’ve got [...]
Open-Mesh.com is slowly but surely improving. Just recently I noticed their homepage changed slogans. It went from something like “WiFi for the developing world” to “WiFi Where You Need It”. I like the latter, myself.
New firmware updates have also happened and beta 1.21 has been released. There was a glitch upgrading to the c953 firmware [...]