Dev Digest, Vol 42, Issue 1

[Nitin Gadia]

Great, thanks!
Yeah, it's interesting that I'm the first person to make an entry in so long...
I also received an email from someone who moved to Buffalo, NY trying
to set things up there.
So, a friend of mine is just received parts for an antenna. He's
designing it and building it soon.
The friend on the opposite end of the neigborhood was thinking that we
should pick a particular router, and develop an OpenWRT-based firmware
image for it, and have a sort of standardized package for each
wireless node, if that makes sense...
Once we were going to have a model working, we were going to go door
to door soliciting donations. We're thinking that many people would be
willing, as they would pay less for a community wireless network,
especially landlords.

Few questions:

We were thinking of broadcasting a signal across the neighborhood
below approximately 800 meters. Is this within the legal FCC limits?

As for the legal entity, you're thinking of a nonprofit?
Do you know of anyone who has such a free wireless arrangement that we
could communicate with? What does SeattleWireless do?

Also, did i not use an appropriate subject heading...?

thanks,
nitin




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> From: "Nitin Gadia" <nittyjee at gmail.com>
> Subject: hello, interested still
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> Seattle Wireless,
>
> I'm a part of a group attempting to create a similar network in Ames,
> Iowa. Any help anyone is willing to provide would go a long way.
> We're building an antenna in the next two weeks to broadcast in one
> direction down a neighborhood, then have one broadcast from the other
> end, connecting them...
> First of all, we were wondering about liabilities associated with a
> free, anonymous network. If someone was found downloading illegal
> things, who is held responsible?
> We were going to go from there, first adding the first two antennas,
> then add the remaining nodes that would connect the following
> neighborhood, Hyland on the east, Franklin on the west, Lincoln Way on
> the south, and Oakland on the north:
> http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=west+street,+ames,+ia,+50014&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=27.284961,82.265625&layer=&ie=UTF8&z=16&ll=42.025515,-93.658834&spn=0.006232,0.020084&om=1
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> If anyone is willing, call me any time: 515-451-6464
>
> I also subscribed to the dev list...
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> Thanks,
> Nitin Gadia
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 13:48:46 -0700
> From: "Sheldon T. Hall" <shel at tandem.artell.net>
> Subject: RE: hello, interested still
> To: "'SeattleWireless Development List'" <dev at seattlewireless.net>
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> Writes Nitin Gadia ...
> >
> > I'm a part of a group attempting to create a similar network in Ames,
> > Iowa. Any help anyone is willing to provide would go a long way.
> > We're building an antenna in the next two weeks to broadcast in one
> > direction down a neighborhood, then have one broadcast from the other
> > end, connecting them...
> > First of all, we were wondering about liabilities associated with a
> > free, anonymous network. If someone was found downloading illegal
> > things, who is held responsible?
>
> In general, the network owner is protected against this sort of stuff, but
> you ought to talk to a lawyer.  It might be prudent to set up some sort of
> legal entity that owns the network, thus protecting the organizers' personal
> assets.
>
> > I also subscribed to the dev list...
>
> ... which is vewwy, vewwy quiet these days.
>
> I'm not right in town, so I don't know what sort of activity Seattle
> Wireless actually carries on these days.  The mailing lists, though, are
> about dead.
>
> -Shel
>
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