[CWN-Summit] wireless set up for DC protesters!

[Harold Feld]

Anybody have contacts with these folks?  Seems they should be interested in 
the regulatory side at the FCC and in the state legislature stuff.

Harold

At 10:06 AM 1/12/2005, you wrote:
>The Open Park Project has set up a wireless hotspot at Pershing 
>Park/Freedom Plaza in DC for the Inauguration Protests (J20) - looking to 
>promote free and open wireless.  Announcement below:
>
>---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
>Subject: Greetings from Open Park
>From:    "Open Park News" <news at openpark.net>
>Date:    Wed, January 12, 2005 1:20 am
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Open Park to Offer Inauguration Week Public Wi-Fi Service Along 
>Pennsylvania Ave. Parade Route and on Capitol Hill
>
>I'd like to give everyone on our mailing list a "head's up" about the free 
>public hotspot
>Open Park has now deployed for Inauguration Week along the Pennsylvania
>Avenue parade route.  The hotspot will operate  through January 22nd at
>Pershing Park on the north side of Pennsylvania Ave. between 14th and 15th
>Sts. NW. Coverage will also extend to portions of Freedom Plaza across
>from City Hall  and the northeast portion of the Ellipse. This hotspot
>will complement our current hotspot on Capitol Hill which provides service 
>in front of the Supreme Court and the site of the new Capitol Visitors' 
>Center.    During Inauguration Week, we
>want to show Washington (and the rest of the world) the many benefits
>which public hotspots can provide. And, for that, we will need your input
>and your active participation !! We'll post the results on our web site.
>
>Here's  how you can help:
>On January 20 (or before), please head down to one of our
>hotspots. Log in and send us an email, photo or blog entry. Tell us what's
>happening and any cool applications or happenings that Open Park's hotspot
>enabled. We'll post a sampling of all the communications we receive (and
>relevant links) on our web site at the special  2005    Inauguration blog:
>http://www.openpark.org/2005inauguration .
>Send    correspondence to <A
>href="mailto:info at openpark.net">info at openpark.net.  Or enter your comments
>directly on the blog.  And don't forget to tell your friends about our
>Inauguration Week service. Open Park's hotspots are free and open to
>everyone.
>
>best wishes,       Greg Staple     President and Co-founder, Open
>Park    Tel: +1 703 842 4851
>
>P.S. Please note that on Inauguration Day,
>January 20, access to some areas covered by Open Park's hotspots may
>require you to pass through a security checkpoint and consent to a search.
>We have been advised that the public will be permitted to bring WiFi
>equipped PDAs and cameras through the security line.   However, we have
>also been told that law enforcement personnel may not permit  people to
>bring large hand luggage, including     some types of  knapsacks and
>briefcases, though there is no per se ban on laptops.
>
>
>--
>
>~~~
>Frannie Wellings
>Policy Fellow, the Electronic Privacy Information Center   ~ 
>http://www.epic.org
>Director, The Public Voice    ~   http://www.thepublicvoice.org
>
>1718 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Suite 200
>Washington, D.C.  20009
>USA
>
>wellings at epic.org
>
>+1 202 483 1140 x 107 (telephone)
>+1 202 483 1248 (fax)
>~~~
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