Boston Linux Meeting Wed, June 17, 2009 Municipal Wireless, and BLU Birthday with cake and pizza

[gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (Jerry Feldman)]

When: June 17, 2009 1PM - 6:00 PM - Pre meeting
                     6:30Pm - 7:30PM Party
                     7:30PM Speakers

Topic: Rooftops III Municipal Wireless.
Moderator:Kurt Keville, Brian DeLacey, Rabeeh Khoury of Marvell=20
Technology Group
Location: MIT Building E51, Room 315 (pre Meeting in room 063)

Marvell=AE Technology Group will be sponsoring the meeting including=20
plenty of soda, pizza and BLU 15th Birthday cake.
http://www.marvell.com/company/index.jsp
Note that Marvell is also supplying the very popular SheevaPlugs

Kurt Keville, Brian DeLacey and others discuss the 802.11s (Mesh)=20
standard and what it means for embedded Linux distros such as OpenWRT=20
and Robix, the distros of choice for the upcoming local Muniwireless=20
rollouts. Kurt gave earlier talks on Muniwireless at our February 2008=20
and August 2006 meetings

Pre: meeting - room 063
Brian and Kurt will be holding an all-afternoon pre-meeting, beginning=20
at noon in E51-063. This afternoon session will build a multi-node=20
solar-powered super computer as a clustered web-server using fast flash=20
and Marvell's SheevaPlugs. Rabeeh Khoury of Marvell will be onsite for=20
lots of Linux and SheevaPlug Q&A. Sage Radachowsky will be showcasing=20
his latest solar circuitry. The working SWARM system will be=20
demonstrated at the main meeting, but anyone is welcome to drop by and=20
pick up a soldering iron or keyboard to work with earlier in the day.


Post meeting. Not sure where we will be having it. JABR wants to go to=20
Atasca, but they close too early. We also may not be hungry. We'll play=20
it by ear.

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Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
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