Setting up Mobile IMC Outreach Workshops

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1. Wireless router for events and indy access points

Hi

I just came across this very cool bit of kit:

- The first Wireless Router for 3G networks http://www.possio.com/scripts/spread.asp?dynfile=first_3g_router&id=english&dh=6

Basically it connects to the net usig g3 (fast) and then acts as a wireless (and wired if needs be) access point -- this could be used to replace satalite mobile access points!

It also runs Linux, more here:

http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS6101205051.html

http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT7459336271.html

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/07/002253

Chris

http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-uk-network/2004-July/0707-w0.html

2. Mobile imc capacity

Hi

On Thu 09-Sep-2004 at 12:17:23PM +0100, radged01 at fastmail.fm wrote: >
> have been adding to the UkOutreachStatic^? wiki and
> started a page called WiFi to try and gather some
> information for people wanting to set up mobile imc
> workshops. haven't found much though looking around the
> uk twiki or the lists (there was a reply on one of the
> lists about something similar to this a while back which
> i haven't refound yet). any ideas on this - or other
> ways of mobilising an imc workshop?

My two thoughts for stuff that would be cool to have are:

1. A device or devices that allow a g3 uplink to link to a

1. 11 wirless node, ideally battery powered. So that we could do create a wirless hotspot anywhere.

2. A SMS to irc gateway -- so that we could give out a phone number to send text messages to that results in the messages being posted to a irc channel.

I dunno if we could try to set somethng up for the ESF to do either of these things...

Chris

-- Aktivix -- Free Software for a Free World

http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-uk-tech/2004-September/0914-23.html

3. Mobile IMC report

Oxford IMC August 04 / report: Mr Demeanour

What we did at the Cowley Road Carnival went quite well; we set up a stall away from the street, in a fairly well-populated pedestrian zone, and got an internet connection off a local business (The Zodiac Niteclub - credit where it's due; they also gave us a power-feed). We put two notebooks on the stall, neither of which was IMC property. They were both wireless-capable, but I think that we used a wired connection and a cheap residential router - we had the CAT-5 to hand, and it's marginally easier to set up a wired network than a wireless one, if all the kit is on the same table! Set-up took less than half-an-hour, including putting up a banner etc.

Personally I'd have preferred all-wireless; it would have been easier to hook someone in ad-hoc if they had brought their own wireless-enabled device along.

We were uploading almost-live material from a few minutes after we set it up, and we were able to show visitors how to upload their own news.

The adjacent "stall" was the stage for the Hammer&Toungue radical poetry slam. It would have been super-cool to have been able to do a truly live audio feed of that; but Oxford isn't geared up for internet radio yet.

I don't know how effective it was as outreach, but it certainly was fun.