Geek-Fun
cn | 11 January, 2007 21:18If you live in or around Toronto and you weren't at Wireless Toronto's inaugural Hacknight, you ain't livin'! Wireless Toronto...
...is a not-for-profit group dedicated to bringing no-fee wireless Internet access to Toronto. Our aim is to encourage the growth of wireless networking and to build community in interesting and innovative ways.
So Wireless Toronto goes around Toronto promoting and helps organize and set up free WiFi hotspots throughout the city and they decided to start a more outwardly geek-social branch of what they do (and their site has a list of free wifi in the city...). As reported by torontoist.com:
they're starting a series of group tech-project hacknight get-togethers. Beer, wires, routers, cordless drills...you get the idea.
Tuesday was the first part of a grander project to build a wifi backpack:
"We’re building a wifi backpack, which we’ve affectionately called the WiFi Roach Coach (long story). It’ll be a battery-powered WRT54GL and Rogers/Bell/Inukshuk pre-WiMax modem providing connectivity. (It’s a NextNet Expedience RSU-2510-AV.) This’ll allow us to set up an instant Wireless Toronto hotspot anyplace where we can get a (pre-)WiMax signal. It’ll be especially useful to provide wifi coverage at events."
Yup--a hotspot in a backpack!
These hacknights, which will be held at InterAccess from here on in, are open to any and all interested parties.
How cool is that? When I read the news I often begin to get lost in the horror of the mainstream media so when I run across news of people doing stuff like this, I love it! The more people that are out in the world getting together to do something creative, stimulating, and social, the better off we all are.
As a note, though it's called Hacknight, they're not doing anything illegal - simply hacking together a geek-cool techno-tool. I may just have to make a road trip to Toronto to sit in on a session!
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