Entries Categorized as 'Events'

Movie Nights at Brooklyn Bridge Park

Date Published by Dana Spiegel on April 30, 2009 under Events   Tags Tags: ,    Comments Comments Off

The Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy has posted the schedule for their 2009 Movies with a View movie nights this summer. As many of you know, BBP is one of NYCwireless’ premiere hotspots, and offers a stunning view of Manhattan from just over the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges.
There are some great movies planned for this summer, [...]


Breakout Festival Announces Internship

Date Published by Rob Kelley on April 13, 2009 under Breakout   Tags    Comments Comments Off

NYCwireless is helping launch the summer’s Breakout!, the eight-day festival that encourages freelancers, students and office workers to “take to the streets and bring their work with them.”  
The call has gone out for an intern to be a Production Assistant and Online Community Manager.   Find more info at Breakout!


Event: Has Divestiture Worked? A 25th Anniversary Assessment of the Break Up of AT&T

Date Published by Dana Spiegel on February 24, 2009 under Events, News   Tags Tags: , ,    Comments Comments Off

This announcement comes from our friend Bruce Kushnick, who’s one of the people putting on this excellent event. “Divestiture” and “Structural Separation” is something that NYCwireless has been fighting for almost since we started, since Verizon and AT&T’s vertically-integrated monopolies make it very hard for us to do some of the work that we do [...]


NYC Broadband Advisory Committee Public Hearing in Staten Island

Date Published by Dana Spiegel on February 20, 2009 under Events, News   Tags Tags: , , ,    Comments Comments Off

Its been quite some time since the last Broadband Advisory Committee Meeting, but the final meeting, taking place in Staten Island, has finally been scheduled. We hope to see many of you on Thursday, March 5, 2009 from 11am-3pm @ CUNY College of Staten Island (Building 1P):

Broadband Committee holds Public Meeting on Staten Island’s Broadband [...]


CITI’s 25th Anniversary Celebration Invite and Discount Code for NYCwireless Members

Date Published by Dana Spiegel on September 30, 2008 under Events, News   Tags Tags: , , ,    Comments Comments Off

Eli Noam, the Director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) emailed me an invite to CITI’s 25th Anniversary Celebration and Conference. All NYCwireless members can attend this great celebration at a discount! We’ll be there, and hope you can be also.
See below for the invitation and discount code.

We would be pleased if the members [...]


NY City Council Hearing: The Regulation and Use of the Unallocated Portion of the Radio Spectrum, Also Known as White Spaces on Sep 28 @ 10am

Date Published by Dana Spiegel on September 27, 2008 under Events, News, Policy   Tags Tags: , , , , ,    Comments Comments Off

The New York City Council is holding a hearing on “The Regulation and Use of the Unallocated Portion of the Radio Spectrum, Also Known as White Spaces” on Monday, September 28th @ 10am in the Committee Room at City Hall. I will be there presenting on behalf of NYCwireless. We need as many people as [...]


The Internet is Serious Business Film Screening on Sept 30 @ 7:30pm

Date Published by Dana Spiegel on September 16, 2008 under Events, NYCwireless   Tags Tags: , ,    Comments Comments Off

I, along with Joe Plotkin and a number of other Community Wireless and network innovators, gave a talk a while ago for at People’s Production House. It was a great experience talking about the history of NYCwireless and the Community Wireless movement, and the students were very engaging and asked a lot of thoughtful questions.
The [...]


OneWebDay Party

Date Published by Dana Spiegel on September 5, 2008 under Events   Tags Tags:    Comments Comments Off

Where: Jimmy’s 43, 43 E. 7th St., near Second Ave.
When: 9pm to midnight, Saturday, Sept. 20
What: Expect great beer and great people.