ISF’s continued international impact
My American colleague Joshua Breitbart has a summary of the International CWN Summit written up in some gov magazine.
Sure he talked about the amazing projects from Croatia, Latin America, and the exciting developments in the US muni area. But he started off the article by talking about ISF’s exploits:
“Compared to the more professional attendees of other wireless conferences like MuniWireless and W2i, the people at the International Summit for Community Wireless Networks are a ragtag bunch. They do things like walk up to a McDonald’s drive-thru window at 2:30 in the morning impersonating a car in the hopes of scoring some late-night food.
But its folks like this that invented wireless networking and, judging by the Summit attendance, they have spread their innovation to every corner of the globe. Their gusto was on clear display at the three-day affair in Columbia, Maryland, May 18-20, but so was a sense that big challenges are on the horizon.”
Who led the charge to McDonalds after the bar when everyone else started walking back to the hotel? That’s right. ISF-ers. And I think it was our idea to trick the McDonalds’ intelligence system by pretending to be a car. Conception - 10. Execution - 2. Or vice versa.
June 5th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
i think if we could get more investment into the montreal car-impersonation space, we could really see some things happen here. we’re a hotbed of this kind of impersonation 2.0 stuff, but everything here is always below the radar.
will you guys be at democamp?
June 5th, 2007 at 7:50 pm
actually, we’re planning on launching CarImprssn v2.0 at the next demo. Now with real vrooming sounds and window wiping.
it’s nice to know that we’re innovating on the global scale here in Montreal. Makes me proud.
June 5th, 2007 at 11:44 pm
True to form, I will jump on the CarImprssn8r Beta bandwagon, praise it lavishly for a few months, then, when it gets really popular and gets snatched up by Google, I’ll close my account and leave, citing privacy and intellectual property issues.
My Imprssns are my own propertly, and I don’t want CarImprssn8r generating drive-by advertising revenue with them.
June 6th, 2007 at 1:47 am
Very nice! I can’t wait to see the security implications of airplane 2.0 impersonator implementation.
June 6th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
I can do an awesome double-decker bus weaving through narrow winding streets impression at the moment. It looks a bit like moshing in a forward going direction, except you have to be screaming “Fat’s a day-card for zone one and two innit, yer in zone free, 2pund or ye cin walk!”
Also can carImprss8r also be rockitImprssn8r because I think rockits are way cool and cars are kind of boring. If there’s rockets, you can say things like “Transporters engaged!” and ” Shields up! Rrrrred alert!”
June 7th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
steve. that’s funny shit. good man. :-)
June 21st, 2007 at 3:45 am
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