Proposed Work meeting of WISP-in-a-box

Date

June 2-3-4, 2008

Location

Meraka Institute

Pretoria

Invited

People and organisations with an active interest in building the concrete product that helps bringing connectivity to underserviced, underprivileged and overcharged communities in Africa.

Invitation 20080409 sent to:

Steve Song
Rael Lissos
Henry / Ndlovu
Kobus Roux et al at Meraka
Mark Summer, Inveneo (with request to forward to Ubiquiti)
Elektra (if possible to have her in SA at the time)

Agenda

The meeting should be a mix of a

decision meeting

and a

concrete work sprint,

possibly in break out group work.

Working business models: identify and agree on ...
- Revisit the Data/Voice topic
Review and finalize concrete low level Requirements / Specifications for WISPiab
Test and compare implementations
- A Linksys/BookPC base test system (meraka, Sebastian) will be ready)
- Dabba
- Ndlovu implementations (?)
Identify alliances (hardware, development, rollout)
- Cooperations
- Shared needs
Resources
- Development
- Dissemination