NYCwireless NeedyNets program has build wireless networks at 4 Community Access low incoming housing facilities in NYC:

Ave. D in Manhatann - 45 Studio Apartments
Dekalb Ave in Brooklyn - 64 Studio/1 & 2 bedroom
Franklin Ave in the Bronx - 66 Studio/1 & 2 bedroom
Davidson Ave in the Bronx - 74 Studio/1 & 2 bedroom

Community Access provides [...]

Partnerships and Events
In January, Laura Forlano submitted a proposal to advise Open Planet, an organization that seeks to empower communities to create the next generation of broadband content and services.
On three Saturdays in January, Dana Spiegel, Rob Kelley and Laura Forlano each respectively presented to a class of students at Monroe College in the [...]

[ October 25, 2005; 5:15 pm to 9:15 pm. ] This Wednesday, October 26th, 2005 at 7:15pm

Bway.net - in new home (finally!):
568 Broadway at Prince St, NE corner
Suite 404
New York, NY 10012

(Please note: Bway.net’s offices are still under construction — we apologize in advance for our appearance. Also, everybody will need to sign-in in the lobby.)

Agenda:

Cybermoor: Community Wireless Broadband Network from Rural Northern England; presentation [...]

Our pilot testing of the WifiDog federation is complete. WifiDog is a hotspot management software from Ile Sans Fil that runs on a standard Linksys WRT54G using open source firmware. With WifiDog, we can now have a federation of nodes that have access to a central server for:

real-time monitoring of node status
managed user authentication
splash page [...]

[ June 29, 2005; 7:15 pm to 9:15 pm. ] This is an especially important meeting.

Please post this notice to all interested friends and related lists.

When: TONIGHT!! Wed. June 29th, 2005 at 7:15 PM
Where: Bway.net, 459 Broadway at Grand St., 2nd Floor.

Agenda

NYCwireless Connected Neighborhoods by Dana Spiegel & Joe Plotkin
WifiDog demo: a tool for managing wireless networks, by Rob Kelley (and friends)
WirelessLondon: A software toolkit [...]

[ March 30, 2005; 7:15 pm to 9:15 pm. ] Date
Wednesday, March 30th @ 7:15pm
Meeting is free and open to the public

Agenda
7:00 Networking
7:15 Introduction to NYCwireless and Speakers
7:30 Main Presentation: Presentation on IleSansFil’s hotspot program and the Open-Source project WifiDog. Speakers: Benoit Grégoire, Michael Lenczner, and Michelle Kasprzak of IleSansFil
8:45 Discussion and Breakout Sessions

Meeting Location
Bway.net
459 Broadway, 2nd Floor.
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