ISF’s continued international impact
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007My 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.
