[Cu-wireless] surprise! we're in the news:

[Sascha Meinrath]

hi all,

there's a very interesting article on http://wifinetnews.com/ about a
bsd-based wireless system being set up by a company called telerama.
i was skimming through the rest of the page (because it's _very_
interesting information) and found this short blurb:

March 23, 2004
Urbana Group Gets $200,000 Community Wireless Grant

They started with Pringles cans and moved to ruggedized containers, but a
$200,000 grant should let them expand further: In this Illinois college
town from whence Mosaic sprung 11 years ago, two community wireless
networkers have received a $200,000 grant from George Soros.s Open Society
Institute to try to affordably build out downtown Urbana.

The Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network has built their own
hardware (using Soekris boxes, a commodity platform for community wireless
groups) and their own mesh routing software. You can read about the
specifics on their site. The software is open source under the BSD
license.

As with many of the newer or renewed community wireless groups, having an
off-the-main-grid local network is part of their goal, which was a concept
originally articulated by the folks at Seattle Wireless.

facinating,

--sascha

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