The
PIP (Public Internet Project),
a not-for-profit initiative I started in the spring of 2002, recently completed
it's research survey of 802.11b node density in Manhattan, NY.
<----- Click on the map to learn more.
PRESS: Our research was recently featured on Wired.com and in the New York Times.
In
May of 2001 I joined NYCWireless, a not-for-profit 802.11 user group. As one of the original members of
NYCWireless, member of the board of directors, and head of business development,
I was deeply
involved with the creation of the now infamous "Bryant
Park Wireless Network" and in the development of the groups
altruistic
ideology.
The Bryant Park Wireless Network took almost 12 months to deploy from inception to the time it went live, and it took many hours of work to design and construct. In the end however, we conceived, pitched and implemented a truly unique, public access, wireless network that proves community networking can be a bridge to making the internet an societal amenity and not always a for-pay service.
PRESS: Recently the NY Times printed an article that does an excellent job of articulating all the interest around the community network movement... I am quoted in the last few paragraphs, near the end...