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“Emerging Markets and Mobile Necessities” Category at Nokia Calling All Innovators Contest

sarkymekmorak...@gmail.com (Sarky) — Mon, 25 May 2009 12:29:17 UT

Are you a professional developer who wants to create applications for
mobile devices for the betterment of the mankind? Nokia’s 2009 Calling
All Innovators Contest has created a special category “Emerging
Markets and Mobile Necessities” for developers to submit their
applications across mobile technology platforms – ranging from SMS

Re: [free-australia-wireless] Setting up a new Open-Mesh network

hal...@gmail.com (Jean-Jacques Halans) — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:00:59 UT

Hi Elliot,

That would be cool!
I do remember there was someone else with a mesh network somewhere in
Bondi Junction,
but don't remember who (though he used Meraki I believe, from back
when they were cheap).

I myself have a single Open-Mesh router, so haven't been able to set
it up in a mesh, but I mainly (still) use Meraki, and haven't used the

Setting up a new Open-Mesh network

ell...@jarofworms.com (Elliot) — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:23:50 UT

Hi,

I'm looking into setting up a new open-mesh (i think) network for my
street in bondi junction to share my net connection.

The batman/robin software looks to do everything I'd like an much
more, just wondering if I could get any tips from people who have gone
down this road.

The pricing looks good at the moment, with the US model for $29 and

Free Australia Wireless at Web Directions South

hal...@gmail.com (Halans) — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:08:49 UT

In less than a week Web Directions South, the major Australian Web
development conference, kicks of with 2-day workshops and a 2-day
conference at the Sydney Expo in Darling Harbour. Free Australia
Wireless will be meshing the conference area, so meet us there!

The traditional Port80 pre-Web Directions South (night before the

Re: Future Melbourne + public wireless planning

futuremelbou...@insights.net.au (Dale_FutureMelbourneOfficer) — Mon, 19 May 2008 05:47:21 UT

Hi NathanaelB,

Thanks for your post about our Future Melbourne wiki, which we've
grown to refer to as "the city plan that anyone can edit!".

Our public consultation period began on 17 May and will run until 14
June. During this time we encourage everybody to visit the site and
register to take part in discussions and to help us edit and refine

Portland

hal...@gmail.com (Halans) — Sat, 17 May 2008 23:47:00 UT

Another (dodgy) commercial metropolitan wifi project going down
[link]
My write-up:
[link]

some more interesting links I picked up:
Personal Telco Project [link]
OS Captive Portal solution for OpenWRT [link]

Re: Future Melbourne + public wireless planning

nathanael.bo...@gmail.com (NathanaelB) — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:33:24 UT

As of 30 minutes ago, having wrapped up the last of my BarCampCanberra
2008 responsibilities that have taken up a bit of my time over the
last 4 weeks, I'm back into FAW so yes will re-read the exec summary
and send any thoughts!

Nat

Re: Future Melbourne + public wireless planning

hal...@gmail.com (Jean-Jacques Halans) — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:14:14 UT

And for Sydney, until May 30, people can submit comments for
Sustainable Sydney 2030. I had a look at the draft document at Customs
House, and free wireless internet was just mentioned in one single
paragraph (free wifi internet at the libraries) while I think it would
cover a lot more (tourism, business, cultural centres,...) I'm

Future Melbourne + public wireless planning

nathanael.bo...@gmail.com (NathanaelB) — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:40:37 UT

You may have seen the Future Melbourne online collaboration wiki-based
project being run by the City of Melbourne local government - I
stumbled upon it via Laurel's blog post today, and I've also posted
about it on The RiotACT quickly and will shortly in more detail on my
own blog as well as Free Canberra Wireless.

Meraki location aware adverts

hal...@gmail.com (Halans) — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:00:39 UT

Meraki started using location aware adverts (indicating businesses
"less than a mile"), in San Fran. Their positioned at the bottom.
Interesting.

[link]

Unfortunately, they also "broadcast" your (geo)location, so it's
trivial to check visitors to your site, and know where they are (as

Re: Meraki user forum: Merakeye.com

psyke.4...@gmail.com (Matthew Hall) — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:37:22 UT

They're also using Google AdSense - I get their link 5th down when
reading this email in GMail ... budget much?

Meraki user forum: Merakeye.com

nathanael.bo...@gmail.com (NathanaelB) — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:53:10 UT

Go check it out - they're also talking about Open-Mesh stuff too, not
just Merakis (which would seem their original intention given the name
of the site): [link]

Cheers,

Nat

Free Australia Wireless at Wireless World 2008 - Darling Harbour, Sydney

hal...@gmail.com (Halans) — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:03:15 UT

Come say hi at booth 65 of the Wireless World 2008 expo in Darling
Harbour tomorrow Wednesday and Thursday. The expo is free to attend,
though you do need to register at entry. Heckle us with your
questions, get touchy-feely with a Meraki up-close (oooh), or just say
hi!

"Now into its fifth year and still experiencing unprecedented growth,

Re: Fwd: Meraki seems to have booby trapped the Redboot. It will reboot itself before you can flash it.

t191...@apms.com.au (t191826) — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:37:45 UT

It might be some sinister purpose, but if I were designing the
product, I would include a watchdog timer to recover from software
failures by automatically rebooting the device. This could quite
easily interfere with unanticipated flashing.

Fwd: Meraki seems to have booby trapped the Redboot. It will reboot itself before you can flash it.

psyke.4...@gmail.com (psyke.4711@gmail.com) — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:53:30 UT

---------- Forwarded message ----------
reboot itself before you can flash it.
To: OpenSourceMesh

check this out - Meraki seems to have booby trapped the Redboot on
the Legacy, Standard and Pro Meraki minis. It will reboot itself
before you can flash it.[link]