[Rfu-barnraising] Re: good news on the WiFi front!

[Sascha Meinrath]

Danielle Chynoweth wrote:
> the nodes are already built (by the city) so that old message is no longer 
> relevant. 
> 
> what is the status of the equipment list for the city to buy the library 
> equipment?
> 
> as i said in our meeting on the library roof, it would be useful to have 
> an expert build the library node in front of others to show them, but a 
> node building session is not necessary.

All we need for the library is the flat roof mount antenna and cinder blocks 
(same for the city roof).  The other main thing that needs to happen for the 
library is that the electricity has to be run for the indoor wireless routers 
and the ethernet needs to be dropped from the penthouse to the second floor 
(Fred knows what this means).  Might be good to drop him a line about this.

--Sascha

> On Sun, 23 Oct 2005, David Young wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 11:44:06AM -0500, Danielle Chynoweth wrote:
>>
>>>I am contacting the city IT dept to see if they would like to use 
>>>conference volunteers to build the city's downtown community wireless 
>>>nodes which are sitting in a corner languishing as far as I can tell (no, 
>>>I am not bitter).
>>
>>I do not think volunteers should build the city's nodes.  That will be
>>my advice to the city.  Assembling the city's nodes takes specialized
>>knowledge that it takes time to teach, and practice to learn.  Careful
>>attention to detail is necessary.  There is not enough time to learn
>>to be a successful node-builder, and to build nodes for use, in a
>>single workshop.  Neither the technology nor nature forgives mistakes,
>>and neither the city nor CUWiN can afford the costs in materials,
>>person-hours, and public reputation of inoperational, flaky, damaged,
>>or ruined nodes.  Let the city staff build the city's nodes.
>>
>>Dave
> 
> 
> 

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