Building a Community Wireless Hotspot October 2, 2004

Part of the Spectropolis: Mobile Media, Art and the City conference.

In this workshop, you will learn how to assemble your own Community Wireless Hotspot using a spare PC and a Wireless Access Point. Security issues and setting up a Captive Portal page will be explained. We'll also show you how to provide software on your Hotspot that engages your local community, and links it into the network of other NYCwireless Community Hotspots, and Hotspots from around the country and world. The software will include: sociableCHAT, Wi-Fi Thank You, LocationServer (for location based services), and Neighbornode. Neighbornode is a project that merges the location-specific nature of the neighborhood with the universal, networked nature of the web, allowing strangers who live on the same street to post messages to each other and engage in dialogue via a web bulletin board. Residents access these common web spaces via an open wireless node placed on their street that directs them to the boards.

Located in the Computer Lab, Room 206 at Pace University.

Also Sunday from 2-3pm.