[Rfu-barnraising] wireless

[Hannah Sassaman]

not officially back from my email-free honeymoon yet but just a heads
up, that i am available and psyched to help coordinate educational
materials development and workshops/tracks on DIY networking, especially
as such buildouts intersect with policy on municipal and community
wireless.

rock on peoples.

hannah s.
prometheusradioproject

On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 07:57:28PM -0500, Phil Stinard wrote:
> I looked into this earlier in the summer.  I believe that there are 
> additional licensing fees, and restrictions on how many songs you can play 
> by a particular artist and from a particular album.  Personally, I do not 
> wish to be hindered by these restrictions.  I would vote NO on streaming 
> the station on the internet.
> 
> --Phil
> 
> 
> >From: Andrew ? Baoill <andrew at funferal.org>
> >To: rfu-barnraising at lists.chambana.net
> >Subject: Re: [Rfu-barnraising] wireless
> >Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 18:29:19 -0500
> >
> >A key question:
> >Does RFU want to stream its signal, and what impact will streaming  have 
> >on our budget etc?
> >
> >Personally, a chunk of my current academic research is focused on the  
> >conceptual challenges webstreaming and digitisation of radio can pose  for 
> >radio, particularly non-commercial and community radio.
> >
> >Separately, streaming raises questions about license fees and  continued 
> >maintenance of the web interface.
> >
> >I understand the desire to create a link between the WiFi and radio  ends 
> >of the barnraising, and I'm also aware of some of the arguments  made in 
> >favour of streaming by some WRFU members. I'd like to draw  attention, 
> >however, to the fact that streaming is not necessarily  unproblematic from 
> >either a practical or intellectual/conceptual  viewpoint.
> >
> >Andrew
> >
> >On 28 MF?mh 2005, at 18:18, Danielle Chynoweth wrote:
> >
> >>i talked to dave young who is the technical lead for (CUWiN). i  asked 
> >>dave
> >>three questions about wireless at the barnraising since we need to
> >>spend some time figuring out how to bring wireless into the fold.   i know
> >>sascha has already send some ideas to the list.  what follows are
> >>additional ideas (in QA format):
> >>
> >>DC: What can volunteers do to help build wireless capacity at the
> >>barnraising?
> >>
> >>DY:
> >>1) Set up wireless access to the IMC DSL line through the IMC  building.
> >>2) Set up a node on the 35' RFU antenna on the roof.
> >>3) Perhaps the city could use help constructing their nodes, although
> >>volunteers some times fuck it up, like they did during our node
> >>construction party on a fraction of our nodes.
> >>
> >>DC: What role do you want to play at the barnraising?
> >>
> >>DY: Offer a DIY networking workshop - a whimsical look at crazy  shit you
> >>can do with wireless, cable, and internet protocol.  I do not want  to put
> >>out fires when shit doesn't work.
> >>
> >>DC: Will the CUWiN network (see http://meshsandbox.com/cuwin.html)  be 
> >>able
> >>to stream the RFU signal on November 13th so we can demonstrate LPFM
> >>broadcasting over a local wireless mesh network?
> >>
> >>DY: Probably.  We need to bring someone with audio streaming  expertise in
> >>and test it at the end of October.
> >>
> >>- danielle
> >>
> >>
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> >--
> >Andrew ? Baoill
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