Linux gives voluntary sector a boost
We were there!! http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39166812,00.htm
Category Archives: Bristol Wireless News
News about or from Bristol Wireless
Funding advice from TechSoup
Writing a winning grant proposal http://ga0.org/ct/L7LD11K1aBZX/ 10 Tips for Funding Technology http://ga0.org/ct/LpLD11K1aBZ4/
Software for Community Organisations
I was having a look around spreadfirefox.com – the new, beta, community Mozilla promotion site when I came across this http://www.civicspacelabs.org/. It is described as " a grassroots organizing platform that empowers collective action inside communities and cohesively connects remote groups of supporters" and from the looks of things is basically a bunch of organising […]
Knowle West Park Project
Well done Matt, Rich and Jim for doing this! What’s the latest news, when are we going back up to see how they’re getting on and address any issues they might raise? I’ll be available next Tuesday morning if anyone wants to come with me (21st). We need at a minimum to look at teaching […]
Digital divide leaves a quarter of Brits stranded
http://www.vnunet.com/news/1157886 BCS survey finds ‘significant proportion’ of adults with no access to a PC Robert Jaques, vnunet.com 07 Sep 2004 One in four Britons are in danger of being marginalised because they have no access to PCs at home or at work, the British Computer Society (BCS) has warned. According to its latest survey investigating […]
7th September 2004 Monthly Meeting
PRESENT ——- Sean Rich Ben Jim Sam Matt W Andy Pete Paul Matt L Christian APOLOGIES ——— Bails UPDATE ON LAST MEETING ———————- Finance: Missing cheque found. Jason has audited account. We have around £200 in the pot. Still owed T-Shirt payments. Once nodes are rolled out and training completed, we will get £3000 for […]
Bristol Sound and Vision @ Cube Cinema
Bristol Sound and Vision04 Update ATV has booked the Cube Cinema on 27th October to showcase the films produced by the "Alliance For Innovation" team of Action Time Vision, Exploding Pictures and Firstborn Creatives as part of the Bristol Sound and Vision04 programme Bristol Sound and Vision04 formed part of the St Pauls based 4 […]
dynamic content on the new wiki
http://tinyurl.com/6g5av Is there anyway of adapting this for embbing an RSS feed into a wiki page do you think? BTW I used tinyurl cos the long url really mucked up the formatting on the new site, try it in the sandbox, I thought it would wrap, they did in the old forums.
International Cisco Product Donation Pilot
This might be a useful way to get free Cisco Wireess routers for VolOrgs in Bristol to connect to our network. http://www.techsoup.org/stock/cisco/emea/pilot/ We are looking for NGOs and charities to participate in a pilot product donation program with Cisco Systems and TechSoup Stock. We piloted a similar Cisco product donation program in September of 2002 […]
Bristol Wireless Distro Rides Again
Whatever happened to our branded distro? Anyway the details of work that has to be done for the installations for the Bannerman Road machines can be found here http://docs.psand.net/twiki/bin/view/CLAN/ClanBannermanRdDistro
Setup of residents’ machines
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 Rich and I went to Rose Brown’s in order to set up her access point, printer & scanner; as her house is obscured from Twinell House we only suceeded in setting up her printer but we also set up her modem and a Virgin.net dial up account (intended to be […]
OPEN SOURCE IN THE VOLUNTARY/NGO SECTOR, 15 SEP
OPEN SOURCE IN THE VOLUNTARY/NGO SECTOR, 15 SEPTEMBER, UPDATE No.1 Welcome to the first update relating to the forthcoming Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS)/NGO Open Source Event taking place in London on 15 September. This update sets out some more detail relating to the proposed programme and arrangements for the day, and gives further background […]
Temporary start page for the ERN project
Welcome to the ERN computer project! You can find out more about how to use your computer by clicking your mouse over the blue text below: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/getting-started-guide/ch-desktop.html The ERN has a e-mail group that you are encouraged to join. you can get to the page by clicking your mouse over this text: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ERN/ There is […]
Beta website available
Christian and Rich have done some sterling work in getting the redesign of the website going, a semi working beta is available for perusal at http://bristolwireless.net/wiki . As it’s a wiki, it’s ready for content creation now so get typing.
Course materials from IOSN
http://www.iosn.net/training/end-user-manual/ This looks like a really useful resource. It’s being slashdotted at the moment so its difficult to access the server but it might form a good basis for a longer introductory course. Will have a look and evaluate once I get get on the site. the original SlashDot posting can be found here – […]
Easton Cowboys – Outside The Box – Saturday August 14th
OUTSIDE THE BOX is a celebration of the creativity of sport and art inspired and created by the Easton Cowboys and Cowgirls. Part Two – Saturday August 14th We are looking for volunteers for Saturday August 14th, OUTSIDE THE BOX, PART TWO. It is being held at the Tobacco Factory and features many top Cowboys […]
Inbox to Website RSS feed (again)
This might be a useful utility for feeding the last 4 or 5 posts subject lines on the mailing list to the front page of the website, which I should point out is getting 400+ hits a day. http://wonko.com/software/mailfeed/ I haven’t had time to get a good look at it, but if any php whizzes […]
Proposed Network Topology
2 devices per client installation: the wge101 which is just a wireless-ethernet bridge which will have the external antenna connected to it for connectivity back to our network. The WRT54g for handling the routing and internal wireless and wired (with the original little antennae on so they won’t be visible on our external network). This […]
WRTs go openwrt
The other day I compiled openwrt in the lab and have it running very nicely on the APs I’m testing for the flats installation. It’s a very manual set-up, but once configured it works really well and does exactly what we need. It generally seems quicker and more stable then the older sveasoft satori releases […]
Objective 2 funding
Posted to the Voscur mailing list this week – should we follow this up – deadline is tight Objective 2 Funding money still left in the pot! – European Regional Development Fund strands: (£70,485 and £4,063,042 available) – European Social fund: (£1,359,797 available) – Applications over £30,000 invited – Matched funding essential and can be […]