Re: EFF's Open Wireless Movement - solutions for Linux 802.11 APs

["Henry Ptasinski" <henryp@broadcom.com>]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:05:08AM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> The EFF announced an effort and desire to promote open wireless
> networks instead of closed encrypted networks to help users with
> connectivity. They have come up with some alternative proposals and
> challenges which they are asking for review / help on. As far as Linux
> is concerned I've started a wiki [2] to cover what we can do for
> 802.11 Linux based APs. Feel free to extend the wiki as you see fit
> and / or subscribe for changes.
> 
> [1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/04/open-wireless-movement
> [2] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/OpenWirelessMovement


The Wi-Fi Alliance currently has a Hotspot program in development:

	http://www.wi-fi.org/news_articles.php?news_id=1048

While it's mainly targeted at service providers, it seem likely that much of
the work could be leveraged if you consider the "service provider" in this case
to be a loosly-coordinated group of people willing to make their APs available
for public use.

- Henry