2nd National Summit for Community Wireless Networks

The 2nd National Summit for Community Wireless Networks will be taking place this spring. The last Summit, which took place in the late summer of 2004, marked the first time that the Policy, Wireless, and Municipal leaders came together to discuss the future of Community Wireless. The event was organized around both educating each of the different interest groups, and generating goals and next steps for the evolution of Community Wireless Networks.

The landscape has changed significantly over the past one and a half years. Like the last summit, this year’s promises to be a very important event. We’ve made significant headway, in large part because of the connections we made last time.

Here’s the annoucement from Sascha Meinrath:

I’m extremely excited to announce that CUWiN, Free Press, and Mid-Rivers Community Wireless Network will be hosting the 2nd National Summit for Community Wireless Networks at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, MO (right outside St. Louis) March 31-April 2, 2006. More information is available here:

http://www.cuwireless.net/summit

or skip straight to the registration page and sign up here:

http://cuwireless.net/summit/2006registration

Like the first Summit, we’ll be gathering in a beautiful building and location, holding numerous small discussions and participatory panels, eating great food (and drinking plenty of coffee ;), and hosting off-the-record evening socials each night of the Summit. Focus areas for this year’s Summit include: Katrina, lessons learned and next steps; how to fight back for public access to the public airwaves; municipal wireless success stories and how-tos; the latest in bleeding-edge wireless technology developments; (free) open source open architecture wireless alternatives; and much, much more.

2006 is shaping up to be a huge year for wireless networking—and the National Summit for Community Wireless Networks is going to be a key event that will help set the agenda for further wireless growth.

See you there!

Sascha Meinrath

Summit Director