---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: < building-a-distributed-decentralized-internet+noreply@googlegroups.com> Date: Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 7:48 AM Subject: Digest for [email protected] - 1 Message in 1 Topic To: Digest Recipients < building-a-distributed-decentralized-internet+digest@googlegroups.com> Today's Topic Summary Group: http://groups.google.com/group/building-a-distributed-decentralized-internet... - Open Source Effort Will Deliver Low-Cost Wi-Fi for All<#131d00f9f8bd7bf1_group_thread_0>[1 Update] Topic: Open Source Effort Will Deliver Low-Cost Wi-Fi for All<http://groups.google.com/group/building-a-distributed-decentralized-internet/t/4826496bb8554a7c> Venessa Miemis <[email protected]> Aug 15 09:33AM -0700 ^<#131d00f9f8bd7bf1_digest_top> fyi http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/237323/open_source_effort_will... "Facilitated by a grant from the Tides Foundation, the new open80211s (o11s) technology will enable the development and rollout of large- scale mesh Wi-Fi networks for roughly half the cost of a traditional network, says Geeks Without Frontiers. Designed to use existing hardware to minimize cost and maximize availability, it's expected to be particularly important in areas where legacy broadband models are currently considered to be nonviable economically." -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens