[Commotion-dev] Slides from recent presentation on the wifi deployment at this year's Burning Man

[Ben West]

Likewise, below is information about the non-commercial 2G phone service
also deployed at Burning Man.  Albeit not with OpenBTS.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David A. Burgess <dburgess at jcis.net>
Date: Thu, May 9, 2013 at 10:30 PM
Subject: [bm-wifi] Papa Legba cellular network
To: bm-wifi-list at burningman.com


All -

As discussed in the meeting this evening, the Papa Legba camp runs a 2G
cellular network on the playa.

Last year's network is described here

http://papalegba2012.wikispaces.com/Results

This year's camp wiki is here

http://papalegba2013.wikispaces.com

-- David


On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Ben West <ben at gowasabi.net> wrote:

> For some background ...
>
>    - Burning Man has deployed wifi across the Playa for several years
>    now.  Cultural objections about why they would do this have long since been
>    set aside.  Burning Man has wifi.
>    - It has been repeatedly asked would they ever deploy a mesh (I asked
>    on their listserv a few years back myself), and the BM wifi working group
>    repeatedly says no they won't.
>
> Nevertheless, they are deploying lots of UBNT 5.8GHz gear, and the slides
> PDF referenced below about Burning Man's temporary wireless infrastructure
> are an interesting read.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Chris -Taz- Petrell <taz at burningman.com>
> Date: Thu, May 9, 2013 at 9:50 PM
> Subject: [brc-wifi] slides - 2013
> To: brc-wifi-list at burningman.com
>
>
> http://matt.peterson.org/tmp/BurningMan2013WiFiSummit.pdf
>
> C.
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