Wireless Toronto

from whiteboard photo:

Atkinson steps: 1) wifi survey 2) prep for meeting (via email) 3) meeting with board & Adam V

expectations to think about:

• coverage
• cost savings for residents
• traffic shaping / caps
  • let's throttle, not cut off access

issues to think about:

• education
  • Jon: youth tech group?
  • community centre
• support (end-users, network: i.e. malware, exploits)
  • task.to might be able to help with the security stuff?
• informing people about bandwidth use
• privacy policy
• portal pages?
  1. what control does community have? can the co-op sell ads on it?
• devices
  • old computers can get online with an old open-mesh box; new computers aren't all that expensive

angles:

• green
• tech training
• economic development

Possible advisors:

• Rhode Island folks (Michele)
• P Frampton / tc.ca (Gabe)
• A Clement (Gabe)
• C Middleton (Gabe)
• planetgeek (Jon)
• M Surman (Gabe)
• open-mesh (Gabe)
• ZAP Quebec (Gabe)

People to contact:

• D. M-W
• G Perks
• A Heaps
• other Government Management Committee members
• O Chow
• R Marchese
• D Chartier (province; Michele)

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