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Re: Wednesday, July 24, 2002
Alan Reiter, of Wireless Internet and Mobile Computing, discusses his speaking engagement at the upcoming MOUStech.NET, LLC "Tsunami BLOG 2002" cruise on his weblog today. He's been tremendous, helping me redefine the focus for what we want to accomplish with the wireless project onboard cruise ships. GigaWave Technologies, the author for the Cisco Aironet 802.11a and 802.11b training, is calling their track wireless certification "GigaCruise." I expect Planet3 Wireless (and channel partner Athena) to come up with a similar style phrase for their vendor neutral wireless certification track. So far, Alan is satisfied with the conservative "Keynote Address" to define his seminar track. Not to be caught standing still, plans are in the works for additional MOUStech.NET BLOG and Wi-Fi theme cruises in November and December: "Wi-Fi Hawaii BLOG." I'll post dates and links on the MOUStech.info weblog soon. On a local note, having set the Dickson County Public Library into motion with a wireless campus, yesterday I began discussing with the Univerisity of Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service office that shares the new Library building about setting up a wireless network for their Cyber Seniors/Cyber Teens program. UT-Knoxville coordinates the use of a portable computer lab of Dell and Gateway lap tops that are used for a wireless classroom. We are just starting to desing the web site (the Grand Opening was July 21). This is one of those rural success stories of a 4H Youth Program collaborating with a regional University to offer a community service: teaching seniors how to use a computer. I looked at the text book and it is pure Intro to PCs, but it is great to get young people teaching senior citizens how to use PCs for email, web browsing, and sending digital photos of the grand children. I find it interesting that the Wi-Fi networks I am setting up are reaching such a diverse population, from MIT professors on cruise ships in the Caribbean to little grand mothers from the senior citizens home. It is all about open and free access to information, something you will read about on the web site I designed for the Dickson Public Library as Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees. The American Library Association has a great deal to say about First Amendment Rights in your Public Library. If your weblog can be viewed in my Public Library, it is protected by an "extra layer" of freedom of speech, in the sense that your public library is often times THE center of free speech debates in a community.
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