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



Revision as of 13:15, 9 April 2008


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 a 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)


Budgets for travel, if needed, still TBC!


More proposals are welcome!

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