Forest Mars, from Manhattan Neighborhood Network, is hosting a OLPC Grassroots Jam on June 14 & 15. The Jam will be at MNN Headquarters (537 West 59th Street). Come and help build an innovative new service for OLPC users. I’m sure there will be lots of interesting OLPC hardware to play with as well!

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Laura Forlano, Joe Plotkin, and I went to the International Summit for Community Wireless Networks in Washington, D.C. last week, and (as usual) it was a great experience. We saw FCC Commissioner Adelstein speak, and had lots of great conversations (many over beer) with a number of other CWN folks that came to the conference.
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Mesh networks are wireless networks, based on Wi-Fi technology, where each wireless “node” or “access point” connects with a number of other wireless nodes. Information flows from node to node, winding up either at its destination or the internet in general. Internet connections, in a mesh-based network, are provided by one or more nodes that [...]