Last friday some folks (including me) did an unofficial presentation of the pwmn @ upatras. The attendance was quite unexpected, and while the joke among the workgroup that planned the “event” was that there would be more pwmn members than students, the people that came was suprisingly high!
The purpose of the presentation was to intrigue students to participate to the open/free community called pwmn, and to give them some insight info about it, just in case they would like to get involved.
One of the major concerns back in my days when I was intrested in wireless technologies was the speed (aka Need For Speed. How fast one can download stuff was my primary concern, and the second reason that made me establish a core node. (The first was the companionship among friends). Yet nowdays people such concerns are no issue! And I am actully wondering why? Are we so congested by the “high speed” dsl (namely 24mbit ~ actual 10mbps? Aren’t we intrigued by wireless bandwidth?
On the other hand the people that participated ware more intrested in the wifi technologies in use like the OS running in the routers, the routing protocols, the parameters of linking among different areas, and how the linking can be achieved. Wow! totally different generation…
** I will update this article at some point with photos from the “event” and other thoughts about the event
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