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Wireless relief effort on Wired News

Wednesday, September 7th, 2005

BoingBoing’s Xeni Jardin interviewed Sascha about the communications relief effort we’re working on.

“We have a breakdown in many of the things that people rely on to deploy these systems, and then we have people whose expertise is in rubber-banding and bubble-gum-sticking and pulling together things with whatever’s at hand,” Meinrath told Wired News. “That’s very […]

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Update from Rayville, LA

Wednesday, September 7th, 2005

A quick update: today I’m working to figure out where to direct community wireless networking volunteers, what kind of shelters, how many people, what gear we’ll need.

I’ve been talking to April in Hattiesberg, MS, which got hit hard, is only now getting some power restored, and has 2-3000 evacuees in a shelter down Hwy 49 […]

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What we’re doing here

Wednesday, September 7th, 2005

The wireless networking community here is putting emergency communications infrastructure (Internet connection, plus VoIP - voice over IP - the ability to place calls over the Internet like its a regular phone) so that evacuees can call their family and let them know they’re alive and where they’re at, so they can file FEMA reports […]

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Getting to the Gulf

Tuesday, September 6th, 2005

We heard horror stories as we drove south from Chicago to Louisiana that we’d pay $15/gallon for gas, hit 2+ hour lines and then the pumps are dry when you get there, etc. So we found 2 5-gallon tanks and filled ‘em in northern Mississippi, and almost immediately regretted it as now we had a […]

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On the ground in northern Louisiana

Tuesday, September 6th, 2005

Rogers and I arrived at Mac Dearman’s farm in Rayville, LA this evening, and found about a dozen enthusiastic wireless engineers in Mac’s communications shed. Mac has an amazing facility here: what seems to be a hundred foot tower, the ability to link locations 50 miles away, 6 muxed-T1s, a OC-12 ring (the only one […]

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THE LATEST…

Tuesday, September 6th, 2005

Paul Smith and Rogers Wilson III have arrived at Mac Dearman’s ( www.inetsouth.com) in Louisiana. They are currently planning with other community activisits and technologists on strategies for deploying infrastructure tomorrow morning.

We are so grateful for all of the generous support we’ve received to make this relief effort possible. Big THANKS to individual […]

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Katrina: Community Wireless Update

Tuesday, September 6th, 2005

The Center for Neighborhood Technology’s (CNT) Wireless Community Network project (http://wcn.cnt.org) has responded to the call for technical expertise in establishing communication infrastructure for first responders and evacuees in the Gulf Coast area following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.

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Katrina: Community Wireless Rapid Response

Monday, September 5th, 2005

CNT, along with CUWiN, is leading the community wireless networking volunteer effort directed by Part 15.org, the official organization coordinating emergency communications relief in the Gulf region hit by Katrina for the FCC and FEMA.

For the people who are stepping up to volunteer, the cost of this work (time, equipment, expenses, etc.) can be defrayed […]

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