Entries Categorized as 'Events'

International Summit for Community Wireless Networks: August 12-15, 2010 in Vienna, Austria

Date Published by Dana Spiegel on February 28, 2010 under Events, News   Tags Tags: , , ,    Comments Comments

Those of you involved in building Community Wireless Networks likely have heard of Sascha Meinrath’s International Summit for Community Wireless Networks. He started the event a number of years ago  when he was still at UIUC, and its the still the best place to meet and work with community network organizers from around the world.
This [...]


ANNOUNCE: City Centered: A Festival of Locative Media and Urban Community (in SF)

Date Published by Dana Spiegel on February 8, 2010 under Events, News   Tags Tags: , , ,    Comments Comments Off

Our good friend Kari Gray is helping to create a technology arts festival in San Francisco this year called “City Centered: A Festival of Locative Media and Urban Community“. Kari originally contacted us about Spectropolis, our Wireless Arts festival from a few years ago, wanting to create something similar out on the west coast. What her [...]


PluggedIn NYC: Mobile and Social Media Summit on January 12, 2010

Date Published by Dana Spiegel on December 29, 2009 under Events   Tags Tags: , ,    Comments Comments Off

Members of NYCwireless have been invited to participate in PluggedIn, a great social media event on January 12, 2010. Be sure to register and use discount code “plugged”!
PluggedIn is a mobile and social media summit, bringing together handpicked media, advertising, social media and mobile executives and gatekeepers. The event is designed to facilitate knowledge sharing, [...]


Announcing: New York’s Technical Community Holiday Party

Date Published by Dana Spiegel on December 15, 2009 under Events   Tags Tags: , ,    Comments Comments Off

NYCwireless is joining forces with a number of other prominent technology organizations in NYC to help host the 2009 Technical Community Holiday Party.
Be sure to RSVP!
More than a palindromic number, 12/21 is an evening for drinks, hors d’oeuvres, and special guests at the professional networking event for New York technology.
Our mission is to bring together [...]


Community Broadband Hearing at Columbia University on Dec. 11

Date Published by Dana Spiegel on December 4, 2009 under Events, News, Policy   Tags Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,    Comments Comments

UPDATE: This is a Community Broadband Hearing by Columbia University, not an FCC Field Hearing. Sorry for the confusion!
Friend Bruce Lincoln, Entrepreneur in Residence at Columbia Engineering’s Center for Technology, Innovation & Community Engagement, sent us an invite for a Community Broadband Hearing taking place next Friday, December 11 at Columbia. I’m planning to attend, and [...]


Come join us for Breakout Festival’s BETA Session: What’s The Craziest Place You’d Work?

Date Published by Elysse Preposi on August 17, 2009 under Events   Tags    Comments Comments Off

Do you do your best thinking on a bike racing through traffic? Do you get inspired in the shower? Is blaring techno music the only way you can clear writer’s block?

If so, then join us at the second of a series of Breakout! Beta Sessions taking place in Manhattan in August and September. We bring [...]


NYCwireless Launches New Hotspot in Clinton Hill For Brooklyn’s Underserved Children

Date Published by Dana Spiegel on July 29, 2009 under Events, News   Tags Tags: , , , , ,    Comments Comments

We are very proud to announce the launch of our newest hotspot in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. The hotspot is a collaboration between Child Development Support Corp (CDSC), HARLOWTOWN and NYCwireless.
On Friday, July 31, 2009 at 11:00 AM at the


Help Make Breakout Festival a Success this Fall (Meetup on July 1 @ New Work City)

Date Published by Dana Spiegel on June 26, 2009 under Events, News   Tags Tags: ,    Comments Comments Off

Come join us for a meetup to solicit ideas, interest, participants and planners in the upcoming Breakout! Festival on July 1 at 6:45pm at New Work City (200 Varick Street, Suite 507b).
This summer the BREAKOUT! Festival will return creative work to the streets of New York. Using coworking as a model, and injecting lightweight versions [...]