MuniWireless

Now that the Muniwireless Dallas conference (March 4-6, 2007) is over, read what participants have to say about it. I will post conference highlights next week including links to the presentations and the keynote. It was a terrific event that drew over 400 registrants. The energy of the attendees and speakers was amazing. Andy Abramson, who moderated the Emerging Portable Devices panel writes: While many look at the high profile conferences and trade shows with envy and desire, it is the upstart events like MuniWireless and O’Reilly’s eTel that have once again shown me that “being there” not only, who is there, that really matters. Click here to read Andy’s post.

Oliver Starr, who was on the Emerging Portable Devices panel, says in Why Muni WiFi Matters (and what developers should do about it): if you’re planning on having any significant degree of WiFi-based functionality integrated into anything that you are building, I think it should be required to attend a Muni WiFi event so that you are sufficiently well informed about the various issues as well as the strengths and limitations of WiFi-based networks built on the scale and using the technologies most common to these environments. Click here to read the rest of Oliver’s post.

Robert Ramsay, an attendee, writes about the conference in Letter from Dallas Muniwireless: I can report on two significant trends in muniwireless . . . First, while the kinds of cities that are planning networks and the reasons they are planning them are becoming more diverse, the business plans are becoming less so . . . The second theme is community benefits. Again, Philly played a role here, establishing an expectation that a municipal network provide positive externalities for the residents, at all socio-economic scales. Click here to read his conference report.

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