{"id":292,"date":"2008-12-16T05:51:13","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T12:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/?p=292"},"modified":"2008-12-16T05:54:09","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T12:54:09","slug":"community-wifi-reloaded-or-i-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/community-wifi-reloaded-or-i-won\/","title":{"rendered":"Community WiFi – Reloaded …(or “I won?!?”)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I really hope this isn’t a scam. Before leaving on vacation I entered a contest for a MvixBox<\/a>, by posting<\/a> in the Tech Support Guy<\/a> forums. This morning I checked my email, and it said that I won. I know, lots of spam say you won something… but in this case the original forum posting and the podcast<\/a> back it up.<\/p>\n

What does this have to do with WiFi? Well, I have an extra Linksys Router, and I live in an area with many apartment buildings, and I’d love to share in a community network with some neighbours. But how to get people interested? How about if when a person connects to an open access point they get fast access to all sorts of open-source or community-commons files. Perhaps by seeing that little bit of value they’d consider sending me an email to learn a bit more about how to create a persistent network connection to share more… and grow from there. You have to start someplace, right?<\/p>\n

That MvixBox would be a nice standalone unit to provide safe storage for that access point, and it’s a lot smaller and easier to manage than having a dedicated PC to do the same thing. Hopefully it will be the seed to something a lot more interesting in 2009…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I really hope this isn’t a scam. Before leaving on vacation I entered a contest for a MvixBox, by posting in the Tech Support Guy forums. This morning I checked my email, and it said that I won. I know, Continue reading Community WiFi – Reloaded …(or “I won?!?”)<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ptY4v-4I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}