Presentations

ASLAN (Air-Stream LAN) is a lanning event for gaming fun and each event has grown in popularity, more people, great sponsors, new prizes and lots of fun...

Chris Cichon a coordinator and systems administrator of the event said "it's a great venue at the Mawson Centre we are very lucky, so we try to make sure the network is well supported and players have a great time".

Air-Stream Wireless wishes to thank

• The Mawson Centre for their generosity and support.
• Paul Ridley (Front Door / General Operations)
• Scott Cichon (Promotions / General admin)
• Chris Cichon (Network / Gaming admin)
• Brad Hill (General / Gaming)
• Tom Moscon (Gaming Admin)
• Michael Kellow (Gaming Admin)
• Shawn Zeppel (Sponsorship / Gaming Admin)
• Our sponsors, and the many others involved who made this event successful

The weekend of the 29 & 30th March six members of Air Stream Wireless attended Amateur Radio Foundation License course and examination. I'm pleased to announce all passed and are now awaiting the arrival of their new license and call sign. Congratulations to all attended and many thanks to Paul Hoffman and team of accessors.

Well I've finally landed back home after a little break after the conference. I've also put the slides and other materials up here.

First of all thank you to Kim Hawtin for proposing and organising the Community Wireless Mini-conf at this years Linux Conference. I think he would agree with me if I was to declare it a success. Video and Audio for the mini-conf talks are available online as well as slides from the Community Wireless miniconf.

One of our speakers has pulled out, and will be attending to his PhD.

So perhaps we can run a panel or discussion in this slot instead? I'm taking ideas and suggestions ;)

Registrations have closed for Linux.Conf.Au. More information on the Community Wireless Miniconf wiki.

Air-Stream Wireless will be doing a presentation at the next Linux Users Group on Thursday night the 6th September 2007 at the Generals Lounge.

Air-Stream Wireless is the first and largest community group in South Australia to successfully build a Wide Area Network (WAN) using wireless in combination with free and open source technologies.

Visit the Generals Lounge Website for more details.

Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and the goal is to celebrate and educate the community about of the benefits of using high quality FOSS in education, in government, at home, and in business -- in short, everywhere!

The event is free for everyone to enjoy and one of South Australia's largest is being held right here in Adelaide at the Mawson Centre, Mawson Lakes.

Air-Stream Wireless will also be there with lots of wireless community fun, demonstrations, companions and much more:

• Free Information on Wireless "anything you need to know, just ask"
• Free Antenna Testing "test how well it really works"
• Free ASLAN "FOSS games, bring your PC"
• Free Content "try, explore and download your fill of FOSS"
• Free Access to Air-Stream Wireless "experience the community"

The main event program...

Plans are afoot to start building an community wireless network from scratch across the Mt Barker area beginning with a free community hotspot located near the town’s center sponsored by Darren Roebuck of Adelaide Hills Electronics.

Currently, members are needed to volunteer their time to help get this exciting new project off to a good start and it is hoped you will offer some good advice, ideas and discussion on how to both drum up local support and ways to expand the network.

Although, it may be impractical to link the network back to the larger metropolitan network in the short/medium-term, it does offer an excellent opportunity to develop a working model of community wireless networks in small communities.

Air-Stream Wireless is happy to provide more information about our network to community organisations and groups, if you would like us to do a presentation at your next meeting contact the committee .

Presentations discuss what Air-Stream has achieved so far, the opportunities, the challenges and ways these are being overcome.