A summary of partnerships and events, new projects, technology development and policy initiatives that have taken place in the past three months as reported at NYCwireless board meetings.
Partnerships and Events
On October 1-2, NYCwireless participated in the World Summit on Free Information Infrastructure, where Dana Spiegel and Laura Forlano presented on a community wireless panel. As [...]

1. New Projects Update
NY Done Right Partnership
October Meeting Location/Speaker
World Summit for Free Information Infrastructure Participation and Presentation

New Projects Update

Wrote letter of support for “Media and Urban Life in North America: Montreal, New York City, Mexico City” project
WiFi Dog Update

Policy Update
Fundraising/Development:

Met with Brooklyn Polytechnic WiCat? project about potential partnership

Administrative

Civitium Meeting Update
New Board Member Update
WiFiDog Update
Open Community Network (OCN) Update
Free Press Partnership
World Summit for Free Information Infrastructure Participation
Investors National Conference Application

Website

Discussed Transition to Wiki, Updated important Web pages

Meetings in Washington, DC

Dana will meet with Congressional officials on June 9

FCC Consumer Advisory Committee

Laura and Dana will represent NYCwireless at first meeting of committee on June 10

WifiDog

Rob/Jacob working on this project

CuWIN mesh

Dana will test mesh nodes

Discussion of New Board Member

Next Meeting Speaker and Announcement

Joe will recruit speaker [...]

Follow-up from last meeting

Officers elected (Dana, President; Ben, Treasurer; Laura, Secretary)

Adopted pr/messaging statements created at 3/16 session with pro-bono pr firm

NYCwireless charter and budget needed for review (Ben)

Update on Board

Anthony’s resigns from Board of Directors and becomes member of Advisory Board

Need to appoint new board member and create Advisory Board

Update on City Council Hearing

Rennaissance Integrated [...]

In the interest of more operational transparency, we will begin posting more information about NYCwireless management actions. We are starting by posting minutes from our monthly Board of Directors meeting.

Received status update on wireless deployment projects from Dana and Ben
Reviewed ideas for NYCwireless 2005 projects generated by March 2nd Brainstorming meeting with selected NYCwireless members, [...]