This is the News Page, please post news items with newest items first. Someone's been a slacker at keeping track of things that've gone on, so please help fill in the blanks 
Recent News
November 2004
The FraserValleyWomensLinuxUserGroup is being setup, oriented towards women in the Linux profession.
October 2004
BC Wireless is now officially a non-profit society!
August 2004
TomFisher dropped off 30 some odd Pentium class (and higher) PC's for us to use. He's asking $10 per box, 8 of them MatthewAsham has already payed for. The PCs still need to be inventoried (ie: checked for workingness and parts). We need a tonne of PCMCIA <> ISA adapters for the 30 some odd 802.11 radios we received a few months ago.
More WaveCaster development. Project manager, message forums, locations and a few other things work but need more work. MatthewAsham is disappearing for a couple of weeks for other project work.
July 2004
The VictoriaPortAngelesLinkTest happened on the 10th. We're planning some more FieldPlay events to test 25KM+ links with in the Lower Mainland. Stay tuned.
Over the past two months, we've been working on WaveCaster (again). Work progresses on the VolunteerSystem (are you a volunteer yet?) and tools should be up and out of beta come August. Power to the people!
June 2004
CommunityNetworkPeeringAgreement has been posted.
- Unfortunately many Wiki's are being hit by spammers, this wiki now blocks certain classes of editor.
May 2004
Got a tonne of WirelessNetworkCards. Node Building in progress.
April 2004
E164.org lives! Woo!
February 2004
- February 5 2004 - Weekly Meeting at the Dew
- February 12 2004 - Weekly Meeting cancelled.
- February 19 2004 - Weekly Meeting at the Dew
February 22 2004 - Looking for ideas on changing our Weekly Meeting schedule and venues, take a look at the WeeklyMeetings page for more info.
January 2004
- Weekly meeting on January 29 2004.
Where: At the Foggy Dew Irish Pub near Lougheed Skytrain (alternative suggestions please Email info@bcwireless.net)
- Time: 6:00pm to 9:00pm
- Who: Anyone and everyone.
Upcoming Meeting : Elevated levels of chatter about a February2004Meeting have been detected. Stay tuned for more information!
Our friends from Ilesansfil in Montreal have setup their first public hotspot!
A preliminary "Sites we want to get on" survey has been done for the VictoriaPortAngelesParty.
SpringHill node is back up and cranking out Wifi in North Vancouver. Future plans include a link to the up and coming GreyPoint node.
December 2003
DarrinEden from the Personal Telco project was up over the Christmas Holidays! Whilst sitting over beers, we talked about the Personal Telco Projects' direction, changes in technology and how they will affect people (GnuRadio sure does look nifty), and how we can work with the PTP more effectively. As one of our first joint efforts, the VictoriaPortAngelesParty was plotted.
November 2003
VoIP is *hot*. We've setup a SIP server, sip.bcwireless.net, account profiles can be created from the "Voice Profile" section of the website. Next on the list to do, setting up an E.164 root and ordering in some more DigiumHardware. One word (okay, three words): PocketPC, X-Lite and Wifi.
October 2003'
ArvoKoppel from PRIS, LonnieNunweiler from Valemount and MatthewAsham from BCWireless went on a travelling road show teaching people throughout the province how to build Wireless Networks in a series of Wireless workshops sponsored by the Government of British Columbia.
September 2003
Our regularly irregular meeting : MeetingSep272003.
August 2003
TAFL tools are now up and running. Community Networks looking for information on where Telus and Navigata have planted their networks can use this tool to research locations and network capacity. A simple network map of Telus's North West microwave system was plotted using this tool.
= February through June 2003 ==
- Things happened, don't remember what.
January 2003
== *** WifiMeetup on the 8th of January at 7pm ==
See http://wifi.meetup.com for details
December 2002
31st Posted this news page
11th - First local Wifi Meetup
Hooked up at Lucy Mae Brown in downtown Vancouver for a general get together. Beer+Wifi == Good
Sometime don't remember - BC Wireless general meeting
- Ate pizza, mucked with hardware, accomplished very little.
November 2002
- Stuff happened, don't remember.
October 2002
- Stuff happened, don't remember.
September 2002
11th - Victoria Mountain Visits
Scoped several mountains near Victoria for potential use as long distance relay links for uplinking a future Inner Gulf Island Community Network and the Lower Mainland to Vancouver Island Link.
10th - WARA meeting
Meet up with some WARA folks to talk about Wifi and find out about potentially using their repeater sites.
August 2002
August 8-9th - Kimberly BC, First Annual Regional Network Conference in Kimberly, BC!
The con was hosted by the Columbia Basin Trust in partnership with the Ministry of Competition, Science and Enterprise and Industry Canada. Lots of talk about Networks both Internet and Community Owned (heh), telecommunication politics and games and good drink :). The BC Wireless presentation is available from here.
