From gabe at pwd.ca Wed Feb 7 12:34:06 2007 From: gabe at pwd.ca (Gabe Sawhney) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 12:34:06 -0500 Subject: [wirelesstoronto-news] New hotspots, and two upcoming Wireless Toronto events Message-ID: <95b1c3780702070934q6ebc190fud4a8cb999172acbd@mail.gmail.com> Wireless Toronto news: 1) New hotspots! Wireless Toronto has set up three new hotspots since Christmas: Lot 16Bar, 1136 Queen St. W. Gusto Cafe, 4906 Dundas St. W. Sneaky Dee's, 431 College St. For the map of all Wireless Toronto hotspots, visit: http://auth.wirelesstoronto.ca/hotspots_map.php 2) Hacknight! Our January hacknight was a small gathering, but the project it spawned -- a battery-powered wifi hotspot-in-a-backpack, with "portable Internet" uplink -- was featured on Torontoist, the Spacing Wire, BoingBoing, and in the Globe and Mail! Info & links at: http://wiki.wirelesstoronto.ca/roach_coach Our next hacknight will be on February 28th, 6:30-9:30pm at InterAccess (interaccess.org), 9 Ossington (at Queen). We'll be working on the MediaBox, a customized network-attached storage (NAS) device which we're deploying at some of our hotspots to offer "high-bandwidth" local content. Info at: http://wiki.wirelesstoronto.ca/mediabox Sign up at: http://upcoming.org/event/146918/ 3) Adopt-a-hotspot & workshop! Wireless Toronto is an all-volunteer group, and we need your help! We do our best to make sure that all the hotspots are always up, but sometimes we get busy and a few days go by without any of us having the chance to fix it. And so, we invite you to Adopt-a-hotspot! As an adopter, you'll receive an email notification when our system notices a hotspot go offline. Most of the time, the wireless router just needs to be rebooted -- we can tell you how to do that, and where to find it. If you'd like to adopt-a-hotspot, email: contact (at) wirelesstoronto.ca Most of our hotspots are very solid, and rarely go down. Some, though, seem to always be up-and-down. If you're interested in learning "advanced troubleshooting" for our routers, we're having a workshop on February 15th at 6:30. Email contact (at) wirelesstoronto.ca if you're interested in attending! From gabe at pwd.ca Mon Feb 26 14:27:17 2007 From: gabe at pwd.ca (Gabe Sawhney) Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:27:17 -0500 Subject: [wirelesstoronto-news] REMINDER: Wireless Toronto February hacknight on Tuesday Message-ID: <95b1c3780702261127i774e1c3fv9b1f9c652a2211f5@mail.gmail.com> Our January hacknight was a small gathering, but the project it spawned -- a battery-powered wifi hotspot-in-a-backpack, with "portable Internet" uplink -- was featured on Torontoist, the Spacing Wire, BoingBoing, and in the Globe and Mail! Info & links at: http://wiki.wirelesstoronto.ca/roach_coach Our next hacknight will be on February 28th, 6:30-9:30pm at InterAccess (interaccess.org), 9 Ossington (at Queen). We'll be working on the MediaBox, a customized network-attached storage (NAS) device which we're deploying at some of our hotspots to offer "high-bandwidth" local content. Info at: http://wiki.wirelesstoronto.ca/mediabox Sign up at: http://upcoming.org/event/146918/