[Los Angeles] SOCALWUG Meeting 02/26/04, Hermosa Beach City Wide Wifi

General Meeting is scheduled for Tomorrow Thursday, February 26th at
7:00pm (Pacific), Can't make the meeting? Watch it live in streaming
video: http://www.socalwug.org

General meetings are held monthly on the fourth Thursday of the month.


Presentation:

Michael Keegan, Mayor of Hermosa Beach will be presenting at the next
SOCALWUG meeting, Thursday February 26th, 2004:

"Imagine living in a town where you're able to move your laptop from one
place to the next without ever having to log off from cyberspace. You can
leave a coffee shop, travel down to the beach and then over to a park, all
the while still surfing the Internet, free of charge."

http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m.../article.jhtml
http://easyreader.hermosawave.net/ne...ate=11/14/2002
http://www.breadnbagel.com


Other Items:

Introduction to the SoCalFreeNet http://www.socalfreenet.org project
rolling out now in the San Diego area
Update on other wireless projects
Current Events
News


Who should attend:

Wireless ISPs
Wireless technicians and engineers
Business people interested in wireless
People working in the wireless community
Wireless Security professionals
People new to wireless
People interested in meeting others involved in the wireless community
Buyers of wireless technology products and services
Those interested in lively technical discussions ranging from beginner to
expert
People new to wireless


Meeting Cost: Free!

Agenda (times are approximate):

7:00 Mixing - business/friend contacts
7:15 Logon> Introductions to the group and key members
7:20 Announcements & News Items
7:25 General Q&A
7:30 Presentation - Michael Keegan, Mayor of Hermosa Beach
8:40 Mixing - break off into groups of discussions
9:00 Logoff>


When:

Every Fourth Thursday
7:00pm to 9:00pm (Pacific)
Thursday, Februrary 26th, 2004
Meeting video streamed live: http://www.socalwug.org


Where:

Pasadena IHOP Restaurant (rear meeting room)
3521 E. Foothill Blvd
Pasadena, CA 91107
Location: http://ihop.know-where.com/ihop/cgi/site?00006
Wireless SSID: www.socalwug.org
GPS: N 34 09.032 - W 118 04.645


*NOW* Take the Train!

MTA Gold Line "Sierra Madre Villa" station
Visit the MTA site for times and stations:
http://www.mta.net/riding_metro/metr...ne/default.htm
Click this MapQuest link for a walking map from the SMV station:
http://tinyurl.com/lhum


Note: Please come hungry and support our host. Food served during meeting.
Separate checks.


SOCALWUG mailing list: http://www.pasadena.net/list.html


Frank Keeney
SOCALWUG Co-Founder

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Pasadena Networks, LLC. http://pasadena.net

How do you plan to afford all this?
I am curious as I too would LOVE to do this in my area but the costs
seem daunting!

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 13:52:54 -0600, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:


>"Imagine living in a town where you're able to move your laptop from one
>place to the next without ever having to log off from cyberspace. You can
>leave a coffee shop, travel down to the beach and then over to a park, all
>the while still surfing the Internet, free of charge."
>

f/fgeorge <f/(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> How do you plan to afford all this?
> I am curious as I too would LOVE to do this in my area but the costs
> seem daunting!

The key basis seems to be to have the highest population density of
geeks in the world
If you are not paying someone to setup the nodes, then to cover even
small areas requires large numbers of APs.
As someone is unlikely to go out and buy tens of thousands of APs, it
means convincing people to put them where they live.
Then you've got the problem of filling the holes between the geeks.