Last night’s Hacknight was upstairs at Caffe Vita. We remembered to bring our own power strips, so there was plenty of power for all our gadgetry, we got the good seats by the piano, and after a bit of lease/re-lease action, we were all up on the not-so-hot-but-free vita wireless network. Andy brought his cheap chinese Internet radio squeezeboxy thing, and of course, it fell quickly to the screwdriver. Conversation jumped all over the map, but there were some new faces, so we covered a lot of the who/what/why of community wireless networks and of course, consolidation of the telcos, network neutrality and the other hot topics of the week.
The new faces weren’t quite sure what we were doing exactly, but they had heard of the project, and showed up to wish us much luck and good tidings in our network building adventures. Mostly it seems they were interested in free wifi, which they had already figured out how to get and wanted to make sure we were up on all the latest neighbor highjacking technology. We were. Tom, who has never shown up to HackNight before, but is subscribed to the lists and just figured out the wiki, offered to take our cash down to Portland so he could bring back tax free gear from invictus networks. Nobody took him up on it of course, but it was an interesting sell.
All in all, it was a good time had by all, and we wrapped up with mojitos and sandwiches at the nearby Honeyhole, which is unfortunately, not large enough for hijacking as a regular meeting space.
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Matt,
Thanks for the promotional on my memorial day weekend to Portland offer to pick up wireless gear at invictusnetworks.com You only mentioned half of the deal. The already quite reasonabley priced stuff is also free shipping since I will pick it up for seattleites so you should have said: “tom is offering a DOUBLE WHAMMY DISCOUNT” Which still stands by the way. Hope to see you and all at May 24 hack night. I’ll be taking orders.
Tom