General Meetings are no longer held on a regular basis, if there if is enough news to talk about or if we have some good presentations lined up, we will schedule a meeting.
See http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/FrequentlyAskedWildGooseChases#head-d7568354f8968eae8e596dd7b4a8704fe774f92b for more info on General meetings.
If you want to present at a general meeting or get something on the GeneralMeetingAgenda, go ahead and post it. Meetings are scheduled on the MailingLists, at HackNight or when we feel enough time has passed since the last one.
We will send mail to the MailingLists and post information here. If there is a non Seattle Wireless event that you feel needs to be posted here, feel free, but please put it in the Other Events section.
UPCOMING Events
Hands-on "HackNight" session for advanced techies now underway. Check the dev list at MailingLists for "hack night" details and scheduling.
PREVIOUS Events (abridged list)
10:00AM, Saturday, August 30th, 2003 Agenda at 2003wirelessfieldday
2:00PM, Sunday, June 15, 2003 Meeting agenda at JuneMeeting2003
2:00PM, Sunday, May 11, 2003 Meeting agenda at MayMeeting2003
2:00PM, Sunday, April 27, 2003 Meeting agenda at AprilMeeting2003
2:00PM, Sunday, March 2003 Meeting agenda at MarchMeeting2003
2:00PM, Sunday, February 9, '03 This meeting was called off due to facilities construction.
2:00PM, Sunday, January 12, '03 Meeting agenda at JanuaryMeeting2003
2:00PM, Sunday, December 08, '02 Meeting agenda at DecemberMeeting2002
2:00PM, Sunday, October 13, '02 Meeting agenda at OctoberMeeting2002
09.24.2002, Tuesday 20.00 PM CORE? is the Man from Amsterdam (Holland), a wireless communication guru telling secrets from the Waag (society for new media).... It does seem that Seattlewireless gets its share of international visitors!
2:00PM, Sunday, September 08, '02 SeptemberMeeting2002
2:00PM, Sunday, August 11, '02 AugustMeeting2002
2:00PM, Sunday, July 21, '02 Special Event: Jouni Ikonen, Pentti Huttunen and Matti Juutilainen from Finland presented their approach for a public WLAN network.
2:00PM, Sunday, July 14, '02 JulyMeeting2002
2:00PM, Sunday, June 9th, '02 JuneMeeting2002
2:00PM, Sunday, May 19th, '02 MayMeeting2002
2:00PM, Sunday, April 14th, '02 AprilMeeting2002
2:00PM, Sunday, March 10th, '02 MarchMeeting2002
2:00PM, Sunday, February 10th, '02 FebruaryMeeting2002
2:00PM, Sunday January 6th 2002 We are having a special meeting this month (which is why it gets a spiffy name)
There will be representatives from several wireless projects (BCWireless, NoCatNet, the BayAreaWirelessUserGroup, consume.net, PersonalTelco and NycWireless) and other city hopping wireless enthusiasts and vendors
See SummitJanuary2002 for details.
Wrapup Lots of stuff happened. Special page for this one. SummitJanuary2002Wrapup
2:00PM, Sunday December 9th 2001 A meeting is scheduled for this weekend at the MeetingSpace. Primary topic will be Public Relations and getting the word out about SeattleWireless. Other discussion topics are TBD.
Wrapup
Peter A. started of with talking about the need for some organized PublicRelations and got some volunteers to meet next week (what was the date Peter?). MattW did a talk about the project to help inform some of the first timers. That followed with what I thought was a really good Q&A session.
Matt Asham from BCWireless came down for the meeting although he tried to hide in the corner
After that we started the antenna session which lasted till about 8:30-9:00. I think I heard that 15 or 16 antennas got built. Richard, Tom, Choong, Peter and Ken took two of the pringles antennas down to boeing field and did a successful file tranfer at almost .6 miles. Would have tried greater distances, but it was cold and the cops kept harrasing us
There was also a quick test of netmeeting over 802.11b and 802.11a. It did video and audio as it would on a local lan. We did run into coverage trouble with the cement walls in the storage facility but it looks very promising on a good link.
2:00PM, Sunday November 11th 2001
A good meeting in our new MeetingSpace in Georgetown. KenCaruso gave a presentation overviewing the project and its status. There was some general discussion about antennae and about why non-technical people would be interested in the project. Then, we split into groups according to where we lived, and the meeting became less coherent from there. Matt and Choong played CounterStrike over 802.11b. Regular meetings were proposed for the second Sunday of each month, at 2:00, unless that's a three-day weekend, in which case the meeting will be held the first Sunday of the month. Antenna parties will take place at 4:00 or so the same days.
Kens presentation from the meeting: http://ken.ipl31.net/slideshows/nov_swn_meeting/
Richard's presentation from the meeting: http://students.washington.edu/rlotz/presentations/cwn-dns/index.html
12:00AM, Friday October 12th 2001
Not really a meeting, just an adhoc experiment by KenCaruso to induce fellow geeks at AMDs free give AthlonXP give-away to the SeattleWireless. We met at the AuraficeCafe before traveling to WestlakeCenter. FreeAmdMeetingInformation has details and maybe pictures if anyone posts them.
See Pictures here: AmdContestPicures
2:00PM, Sunday September 9 2001
615 Bellevue Ave E. Bring gear and compute in the grass once again. Same place as the BBQ.
Wrapup
Weather was Awesome, I would guess between 20-30 people showed. There were some cool toys, Ben brought his raygun-like yagi-antenna. There were a couple of Ipaqs. Apparently people had trouble getting on the network, probably related to being on the fringe of Matt's service area (although I had no trouble). Alot of new people who are interested in putting up nodes. Be sure to get on the mailing list and find some people nearby. Some of us headed down to Scott Kennedy's concert. See Pictures @ SeptemberMeetingPictures
2:00PM, Saturday 21 July 2001
Courtyard BBQ. 615 Bellevue Ave E. Bring your gear and compute in the grass. Plenty of view so if you're on Westlake, Q.Anne or near the needle, set up your node and test it out from distance. We're providing hot metal, You bring food.
Wrapup
The weather was not so great, but we got to check out gear, eat food and compute in the overcastness of seattle. Burgers and pop were consumed and networks were tested. See the pictures at BBQPictures.
6:00 PM, Thursday 10 May 2001
Meeting #6! 1235 Westlake (MeetingSpace) The agenda looks light right now (it's somewhat of a mixer, bring beer and snacks) but there's a lot of stuff going on so make sure you attend.
12:00 PM, Sunday 25 February 2001
Meeting #5! 1235 Westlake.Our first meeting in 2001! This will be at our official MeetingSpace. We have lots of gear to show off and will try to make this a working meeting as well. We are trying to get wireless going, but are just out of line-of-site from our initial sites. If anyone is on EastLake, let us know.
Wrapup
This was a very interesting meeting with lots of hardware around and a lot of new faces. We went over antenna design, the setup of WestSeattleBxNodeOne and plans for the Coffee Shop. Lots of people had gear and it looks like we're very close to having a 4 way link. Another antenna building party is in the works and hopefully we wont have to deal with super glue this time. I haven't been able to get the pictures up due to work and the earthquake, but bear with me, they'll be up soon.
6:00 PM, Thursday 28 December 2000
- Meeting #4! 2440 Western Ave "Site 17 Apts" Conference Room. As well as being our last general meeting of 2000, This meeting will have representatives from other wireless groups speaking to the group!
BAWUG (BayAreaWirelessUserGroup)
- PDX / PTP ( Portland Wireless and Personal Telco Project )
- BC Wireless ( Vancouver, BC )
Consume.NET ( KenCaruso's TripReport )
Wrapup:
For some reason, PDX and PTP did not make it. Hopefully it was a decision not to come rather than them getting lost and not finding it. The tape ran out about halfway through MatthewAsham's talk so we didn't get KenCaruso's trip report on tape. There is some video at MeetingFourVideos.
Ken and MattPeterson took a few pictures: MeetingFourPictures
The meeting went very well with lots of questions and answers, and a somewhat confusing presentation (RatHole) about IntraIntra.
Bonus Points:
RobertCrecine has 3 directionals showing up next week. We will be doing some distance testing and general mayhem with those as soon as we can. PanosKrokos has an omni somewhere lost in shipping, and we will be setting up the WestSeattle node sometime in the new year. DanEgnor owes some people free lunch. All the experts agree..... IntraIntra will work. ZekesPizza is a good place to make a lot of noise and drink beer.
8:00 PM, Thursday, 12 October 2000
- Third general meeting. We have a tentative agenda:
the point. (SeattleWirelessIdea)
- hardware. cards. antennas. what needs to be bought. where to get it.
- software. what needs to be written and who is going to do it.
- propaganda. faq. stickers. posters. flyers.
- teams.
7:00 PM, Tuesday, 10 October 2000
- Antenna building party!
Meeting near StephenBriggs' garage at 7:00 PM Tuesday, Elliot Bay Pizza. It's at the top of Queen Anne across the street from the Safeway. Stephen will be there getting a Sub for dinner at 7:00, will hang around until 7:30... then walk 3 blocks over to the garage.
7:00 PM, Monday, 25 September 2000
Our second meeting. 2440 Western Ave "Site 17 Apts". (Directions and RSVP deleted.) This was a great meeting with lots of people -- more than I expected. Westervelt and Briggs showed off their new homemade directional antenna, and we were able to use it with two other laptops to set up a network. Lots of general chitchat. We need testing locations -- get those photos in, people!
3:00 PM, Saturday, 16 September 2000
- Our first meeting! Many of us met each other for the first time. We decided to start looking for sites with good line-of-sight over a reasonable distance for initial testing. We had lots of discussion about hardware, software, and organization. We decided to hold the next meeting on a weekday evening.
Other Events
Nov 6-7th, 2002 UCLA Wireless Internet - Data and Enterprise Applications Conference. Keynote speakers include top execs from major wireless companies. Goto http://wireless.ucla.edu for more information and registration.
April 20th, 2002 - Linuxfest 2002 at Bellingham Technical College. - http://www.blug.org/linuxfest2002/index.html Many people, including Illiad, Joseph Cheek, and the infamous slashdotted pringles cantenna VS nalleys big chunk beef stew shootout people! You won't wanna miss this events!
January 26th, 2002 - Digital City Presentation at Evergreen State College. - http://www.scn.org/tesc-ds/2001-2002/winter/schedule.html
December 6th, 2001 - Meeting of the Linux Users Group @ UW
KenCaruso and RichardLotz are talking to the LUG at the UW about the SeattleWireless network. The meeting will be held in EE1 403 on the UniversityOfWashington campus. For more information on the LUG check out the webpage. SeattleWireless members are welcome to attend.
December 3-4, 2001 - 802.11 conference and exhibition
A 2 day business event for the discussion, analysis and future development of 802.11 standards, technologies and strategies. For more info see http://www.eyeforwireless.com or email karen@eyeforwireless.com. Agenda is currently under development.
7:30 AM - 5:00 PM Monday, 13 August 2001
Wireless ISP Workshop at Marriott Sea-Tac Airport Hotel $299; $50 discount for WISPA members Program Info: http://www.shorecliffcommunications.com/wisp/default.asp?showid=B028&info=37 Questions: Contact Jack Unger (junger@scruznet.com) or (818) 227-4220
1:00 PM, Sunday, 24 June 2001
- Wireless groups meet in Portland. Check the site for details.
6:00 PM, Monday, 13 November 2000
SeattleWirelessInterestGroup holds their first meeting.
7:00 PM, Thursday, 11 January 2001
BayAreaWirelessUserGroup monthly meeting featuring a presentation on a FreeBSD-based access point, and also new wireless technology (technically illegal per FCC) to put our 2.4GHZ to shame, also a little HowTO on ghetto PoE (Power over Ethernet). Do note the different meeting location.
