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Bristol Wireless Press Release: 21/05/04 Bristol Wireless Festival, Easton Community Centre, June 5th 2004

Contact: Bristol Wireless Laboratory: Bannerman Buildings, Easton. Laboratory: 0117 902 5247 Mobile (Sean): 07800 819 342 email: info@bristolwireless.net

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Bristol Wireless present a half-day free urban festival celebrating the awesome power ?dunno about this but it's a tricky and important word of free wireless media, sustainable technology, link-sniffing skaters and Bristol's creative communities.

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Saturday afternoon, June 5th, sees Easton's community centre become the west country's centre of pioneering recycled art and technology demonstrations, wire-free cinema, free computer give-aways and much more. Expert volunteers from all around Bristol are coming together to showcase the potential applications available to switched on citizens, artists and technologists with no money but bags of inspiration.

The day's rota (sideline activities below):

1pm: The co-operative will be giving away fully functional recycled computers to graduating students from their highly succesful low cost IT courses (all students receive free computers upon graduation).

2pm: For one hour, the resident radio experts will open up the webcasting studio (broadcasting live all day) to festival-goers. This will be a unique opportunity for visitors to witness the workings of a professional radio studio and take part in the live broadcasts.

3pm: Bristol Wireless present a raft of streaming films from local artists in Bristol's first ever Wireless Cinema. This will be a ground-breaking demonstration of full-screen film transmission.

4pm: International freenetworks experts and local community hactivists hold an open questions roundtable discussion focussing on the work of free networks and open access points.

All day activities:

Alongside these wireless spectacles, find the the all day long 'open source food stall', video wall, games network, free IT tutor sessions for beginners, and the Bristol and Bath Linux User Group's (BaBLUG?)'install-fest' (fancy waving goodbye to windows?). Also watch out for the Cube's Richair sk8 team, mapping Bristol's freenetworks on roller skates all day.

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During Bristol Wireless Festival, RICHAIR2030 teamed with cube cinema’s sk8team revisits sites of bristolwireless.net’s resident network nodes established since 2002. A team of skateboarders equipped with homemade lunchbox chiputers roam the Bristol citylimits. Traveling through sk8team’s fond memory lanes, the skateboarders join freenetworkers in mapping and pumping the communal richair wireless signal strength along Bristol’s skateboard mobility routes.

RICHAIR2030 is presented by TAKE2030 (london based)

hi, this is not quite press friendly language, but maybe you can edit and make it sound better???? thanks so much.

'fully functional recycled computers' should really be '... computer systems' as we are giving away mice and keyboards.

systems, my arse. We are giving away computers not computers, a three tier support network and a synergistic problem solving matrix. Any more of that and the boys form the CPE (Campaign for Plain Engrish) will be around to pay you a visit...

'fancy waving goodbye to windows?' could be 'fancy drawing the curtains on windows?' though this is stolen from somewhere else.

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Bristol Wireless present a half-day free urban festival celebrating the awesome power ?dunno about this but it's a tricky and important word of free wireless media,

I think this sentence needs a verb/adverb here - using/through etc

sustainable technology, link-sniffing skaters and Bristol's creative communities.

TallPaul? ***:::FINAL VERSION HERE:::*** Press Release: Bristol Wireless Festival, Easton Community Centre, June 5th 2004 Contact: Bristol Wireless Laboratory: 0117 902 5247 Mobile (Sean): 07800 819 342

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Bristol Wireless is proud to present a FREE half-day urban festival celebrating the evolution of wire-free media, sustainable technology, our very own creative communities, and other wireless spectacles.

On Saturday, June 5th, the community co-operative will exhibit radical recycled technology with art demonstrations, films, games, computer give-aways, skating, and much more. Experts from Bristol and beyond are coming together to showcase potential applications of technology available to anyone with no money, but a spot of inspiration and a dash of digital elbow-grease.

Scheduled activities:

1pm: Doors open. The co-operative will present recycled computers to graduating students from their highly successful low cost IT courses (all students receive free computers upon graduation). We have now given away over 100 computers!

2pm: Our resident radio experts will open up the webcasting studio (broadcasting live all day) to festival-goers. This will be a unique opportunity for visitors to witness the workings of a professional radio studio and take part in the live broadcasts.

3pm: Bristol Wireless presents a flotilla of streaming films from local artists in Bristol's first ever Wireless Cinema. This will be a ground-breaking demonstration of full-screen film transmission without wires; soon, everything will be done this way.

4pm: International freenetworks experts from ‘Consume.net’ and local community hactivists will hold an open questions roundtable discussion discussing work on free networks and open access points (much of Bristol can hook into our free network).

All day activities:

All day long 'open source food stall', video wall, games network, webcasting, free IT tutor sessions for beginners, and the Bristol and Bath Linux User Group's 'install-fest' (wave goodbye to windows). Watch out for the Richair2030 sk8team in partnership with the Cube, skating the streets of Bristol, mapping the range and strength of the wireless network with their homemade lunchbox chiputers…

Details: Bristol Wireless Festival runs from 1pm to 6pm, Saturday 5th June; Easton Community Centre, Kilburn Street, Easton. Entry: free; all activities: free; staffed by volunteers