[Vanhackspace] Fwd: VONIC meeting: Mon 12 Jan 6:30pm, Afro-Canadian Restaurant (324 Cambie St)

[Jeff Davis]

Hey all,

I mentioned this meeting at VHS on Tuesday.  VONIC is a nonprofit,
consensus-based community wifi cooperative.  It has ownership of the
FreeTheNet.ca wireless mesh network, which provides open internet access at
various places around town.  We're using open-source firmware on the
routers (improved and customized for this project by Joe) and an
open-source Rails app to provide a web interface and captive portal
(written by Joe).

The project has been pretty dormant for the past few months, but there are
some good opportunities for things like installing open wifi networks in
low-income housing co-ops.  The biggest thing that's missing right now is
people with technical knowledge to help out with installation and testing
and to make sure the hardware and software keeps working properly.

If you're interested in the idea of community wireless -- hacking routers,
installing local wifi networks, or whatever -- please consider coming down
to the meeting on Monday night.

Jeff


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: VONIC meeting: Mon 12 Jan 6:30pm, Afro-Canadian Restaurant (324
Cambie St)
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:15:07 -0800
From: Jeff Davis <jeff at textsfornothing.com>
To: discussion at lists.freethenet.ca, freethenet-ca at googlegroups.com

Meeting time!

VONIC will be having a meeting on Monday, January 12 at 6:30pm at the
Afro-Canadian Restaurant, 324 Cambie St between Hastings and Cordova.  We
have a few decisions we need to make, and two of the current board members
are moving out of town.

Jeff Davis
Vancouver Open Network Initiatives Cooperative