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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
