book: Wireless Networking in the Developing World
Wireless Networking in the Developing World
They were working on this when we were at the WSFII conference in London.
I took a look through it - and it looks great. Amazing, actually. I read through the use cases.
It reminds me of how I got into this who free software / open source thing. I worked for 2 years as techsupport + training at the radiology department of the MUHC. They didn’t have enough work for me to do so I spent hours every day reading about opensource and digital divide projects. I would print up hundreds of pages of stuff on the printers from work and hole up somewhere and go through project descriptions, learn about the history of unix, kevin mitnick, cryptography, key-picking, history of bbs’s, red-boxes, the well, etc. I didn’t know anyone else who was into this stuff. I probably had a good working knowledge of about 80% of the digital divide projects at the time. I mean, a couple hours a day for almost 2 years amounts to a lot of information.
hmm… and now that i think of those things - and know that so many of you have those same cultural references - I just can’t *not* feel that there is a cultural heritage that a lot of geeks share.
anyways, those were fun years - but I’m very glad that I now have people in my life that know those (his)stories as well.