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Bristol Wireless Bristol Wireless is a volunteer-run co-operative committed to social improvement through community wireless networking; we\'re in your aerial.URLLast update30 weeks 6 days agoDecember 20, 200717:37
Here at Bristol Wireless, with most of us being advocates of bah-humbuggery as well as Linux and open source, we’ve been doing our utmost to avoid too much contact with the world of midwinter celebrations (e.g. Christmas, Hannukah, solstice, etc.*). However, we did crack a bit yesterday afternoon, succumbing to mulled cider and nibbles in [...]
Categories: Community Networks
November 29, 200710:30
Here at Bristol Wireless we do as much as we can to re-use and extend the working life of old computer hardware.
Through our Byteback partnership We are able to sell reconditioned machines for just £50.
We recognise that sometimes it is appropriate to purchase new hardware, and when new purchases are made it is worth considering [...]
Categories: Community Networks
November 28, 200713:47
News arrives from Bristol City Council that a state-of-the-art Wi-Fi network has been installed to give partial Wi-Fi coverage of The Council House on College Green.
The network will allow anyone attending a meeting or event in the building’s committee rooms, Council Chamber and Conference Hall to call up agendas, reports and other background materials on [...]
Categories: Community Networks
November 21, 200715:04
On 29th November 2007 we will be running a beginners’ training course from 7pm - 9pm at St. Werburghs Community Centre, Horley Road, St. Werburghs. The course will cover logging in and out, the desktop, the file system, word processing, setting up and using web based email and surfing the World Wide Web. Bristol Wireless [...]
Categories: Community Networks
November 20, 200713:43
Author’s note: The following is an article I’ve written for an Easton newsletter being set up in the new year. I’ve posted it here because I mention Bristol Wireless and their contribution to recycling waste electrical and electronic equipment towards the end.
The Problem
More than a million tonnes of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) [...]
Categories: Community Networks
November 15, 200717:30
The open internet access suite at the Chelsea Inn in Easton, provided and managed by Bristol Wireless, has been completely overhauled. The addition of an extra station brings the total to three now, all of which are newer-style Compaq thin clients providing access to the server upstairs via LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project). [...]
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17:30
On Tuesday Bristol Wireless volunteer and Nixcom employee Lloyd Cohen installed an omni-directional antenna on the roof of The Cube Microplex cinema in Kingsdown. The AP is to be used for the high-quality infrastructure-level connection of strategic points around the adjoining Dove St. flats, from which free open access wireless coverage will be provided to [...]
Categories: Community Networks
November 14, 200712:08
Download Interview with Tim EricksonOn Tuesday 6th November, Bristol Wireless received a visit from Tim Erickson of E-Democracy.org, who have been helping encourage participation in the democratic process since 1994. We first me Tim on his initial visit to Bristol 2 years ago and were responsible for introducing him to West Country cider.
Tim [...]
Categories: Community Networks
November 2, 200712:44
Since its inception as a community wireless networking project, Bristol Wireless’ range of activities has expanded at a rapid rate. One of the newer lines of work - although the idea was first mooted a few years ago - is the development of our own Bristol Wireless Debian-based Linux distribution. Ben Green has today announced [...]
Categories: Community Networks
October 24, 200712:35
Following on from Bristol Wireless’ sale of internet-ready Linux computers for £50, news reaches the lab that well-known supermarket chain Tesco, once described by a TV comedy programme as “the world’s first retail state”, has now commenced sales of entry level PCs with Ubuntu Linux pre-installed.
Tesco’s Linux machines cost slightly more than ours do, but [...]
Categories: Community Networks
October 22, 200711:19
At the start of the weekend Matt Toseland sent a message to our general list announcing he wouldn’t be able to make our monthly meeting in November. Apart from being a bit early, there’s nothing unusual in apologies from people unable to attend meetings. However, Matt has a good excuse: he’s moving to Scarborough (in [...]
Categories: Community Networks
11:19
At the start of the weekend Matt Toseland sent a message to our general list announcing he wouldn’t be able to make our monthly meeting in November. Apart from being a bit early, there’s nothing unusual in apologies from people unable to attend meetings. However, Matt has a good excuse: he’s moving to Scarborough (in [...]
Categories: Community Networks
October 12, 200713:36
Bristol Wireless was recently contacted on behalf of the Healing Hands Network to see if we could help provide a laptop computer for Amir, a 27-year old resident of Sarajevo and Bosnian civil war victim, to enable him to turn his life around and help him gain the qualifications to find work.
After being nearly killed [...]
Categories: Community Networks
October 11, 200712:13
A short time ago, Matthew Edmonson of M6-IT, a long-time supporter of Bristol Wireless, posted to our mailing list about his experiences using a 3G USB modem out and about and his impressions on how it could encourage mobile working. His email started as follows:
I am writing this from a meeting in Bristol; fifteen minutes [...]
Categories: Community Networks
October 10, 200712:51
The “damning” results of a survey of local authorities by Liberal Democrat MP John Pugh show that the majority have no idea how much money is being spent on IT in their schools. Of the 59 respondents, 37 local authorities keep no information on the amount spent by schools on IT provision and procurement.
With a [...]
Categories: Community Networks
October 1, 200714:07
On Wednesday 26th September the Bristol Wireless mobile LTSP suite went to the Beyond Engagement: Inclusion, Sport and Popular Culture conference organised by the Substance co-op at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall. The aim of the conference was to explore ways of building on developments after the target audience has been found through the channels of sport, [...]
Categories: Community Networks
September 21, 200711:29
While the big wide world classes Bristol Wireless as supertechies or ubergeeks, we do have artistic sensibilities: indeed, the co-op has several artist(e)s - musicians, DJs, wordsmiths, practitioners in the plastic arts, etc. - in its ranks and I reckon that collectively we have more appreciation of creative works than your average Radio 4 studio [...]
Categories: Community Networks
September 20, 200710:56
A Bristol Wireless group and photo pool has now been established on Flickr, the popular image sharing site.
The idea is to document the work and personalities of the Bristol Wireless project.
At the time of writing the group has 7 members and nearly 80 pictures, including some historical images from our first high-rise install on top [...]
Categories: Community Networks
September 11, 200712:58
iT4 Communities, the national IT volunteering programme of the Information Technologists’ Company, is accepting nominations for the 2007 IT Volunteer Awards, which aim to recognise the best, most innovative examples of IT volunteering and projects. Charities can nominate themselves and/or their IT volunteers by submitting an application by 6 October. Anyone who has volunteered their [...]
Categories: Community Networks
September 6, 200707:11
The New York Times reported yesterday that the Geneva-based International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) have rebuffed the efforts of Microsoft to have its Open Office XML (OOXML) document format accepted as an international standard.
Of the 87 countries that participated in the vote, 26% opposed Microsoft’s bid. Under the [...]
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