John Tobin Boston City Councillor

A word about the WiFi Summit Videos

Steve Garfield — Fri, 20 May 2005 02:53:56 -0400

Hello to everyone visiting the blog to see the almost realtime video blog posts I made from the Boston WiFi Summit.

It was exciting to use the technology of audioblog.com to be able to record and upload video over WiFi as it happened!

Some technical Notes for those who are interested

When someone records and publishes almost live, it relies on the speed and strength of the internet connection. That's why the quality is different than my regular video blog posts.

WiFi Summit John Tobin Closing Remarks

Steve Garfield — Thu, 19 May 2005 12:29:27 -0400

WiFi Summit John Tobin Closing Remarks

WiFi Summit Q&A II

Steve Garfield — Thu, 19 May 2005 12:23:04 -0400

WiFi Summit Q&A II
We are the media.
How does this fit into people's daily lives?
Access for all.

Audience Questions and Comments

Steve Garfield — Thu, 19 May 2005 11:59:04 -0400

Audience Questions and Comments

WiFi Summit Michael Oh Tech Superpowers

Steve Garfield — Thu, 19 May 2005 11:46:13 -0400

WiFi Summit Michael Oh Tech Superpowers
Published to technical specifications and business model for newburyopen.net to the web for anyone to read and build upon.

WiFi Summit Richard O'Bryant, Northeastern

Steve Garfield — Thu, 19 May 2005 11:36:41 -0400

WiFi Summit Richard O'Bryant, Northeastern
It's important for us to push policy makers to help them undersand where to take this technology.

The most successful projects come up from the community.

The City can coordinate the resources.

WiFI Summit Russell Newman, Campaign Director, Free Press.

Steve Garfield — Thu, 19 May 2005 11:28:51 -0400

WiFI Summit Russell Newman, Campaign Director, Free Press.

WiFi Summit Jock Gill Implications for a Connected Community

Steve Garfield — Thu, 19 May 2005 11:21:00 -0400

WiFi Summit Jock Gill Implications for a Connected Community

Jock Gill showed a clip from the Panic Struck Productions Independent Star Wars fan film Revelations, to start his talk.

Thinking about the future of wireless Boston.

We need to aniticpate a system that will support citizen creation.

The ability to create in a rich multimedia function is important to our future.

10 GB connectivity by 2015!

Dare to dream about a possible future that capaults us into a position nof strength and competitiveness.

WiFi Summit Robert Tumposky, Boston Redevelopment Authority

Steve Garfield — Thu, 19 May 2005 10:50:30 -0400

WiFi Summit Robert Tumposky, Boston Redevelopment Authority
Don't bet on one technology.

Work with exiting group, provide access to telephone poles, fire boxes, etc.
Provide technical assistance to groups that want to provide wireless and resolve wirelss conficts.
For internal purposes build a wireless mesh network and learn from that be able to consult and share with the public.

WiFi Summit Vinit Nijhawan

Steve Garfield — Thu, 19 May 2005 10:41:09 -0400

WiFi Summit Vinit Nijhawan
Consumer adoption drives technology uses. He tells how Apple Computer's intoduction of Airport Wirelss drove down the cost.

Goventment can help get WiFi to users.

It's for the common good of the 21st Century.

The govenment can subsidise use .

Boston is known as a technolgy savvy place and we need to continue that.