Bloggers at the Wi-Fi Summit

Two Boston area bloggers, Michael Feldman and Deborah Elizabeth Finn, attended last week's Boston Wi-Fi Meetup and wrote extensive summaries on each of their weblogs.

Michael wrote:

The session was called to order at 9:20 with a slide show from Adam Weiss, the museums's point man for the wi-fi project, giving an overview of what wireless technology is all about, and how the electromagnetic spectrum is divided up into hundreds of regulated and unregulated segments. Despite the well-known axiom that Powerpoint-type presentations have the highest noise to signal ratio known to man, this was a surprisingly useful overview, especially as it resonated in later references to open spectrum technologies. (The session was called to order at 9:20 with a slide show from Adam Weiss, the museums's point man for the wi-fi project, giving an overview of what wireless technology is all about, and how the electromagnetic spectrum is divided up into hundreds of regulated and unregulated segments. Despite the well-known axiom that Powerpoint-type presentations have the highest noise to signal ratio known to man, this was a surprisingly useful overview, especially as it resonated in later references to open spectrum technologies. (more)

Deborah wrote:

Since the Museum of Science was kind enough to donate access to its wireless network for the event, the auditorium was full of people dividing their attention between their screens and the event presentations. I took a surreptitious peek at a few of these screens, and found that many were working on other tasks or checking email. This is good news, because it may mean that WiFi made it possible for some people to attend who otherwise would have been obligated stay close to conventional internet access. However, I would have loved to see live chat about the event in progress, with the transcripts projected on a screen for all attendees to follow in real time. This was done with during the keynote talk at the recent Grassroot Use of Technology Conference, and many participants in the latter reported that it was a great help in breaking the format out of the unilateral present-to-audience talking head mode. On the other hand, a video blog of the summit presentations was posted to John Tobin's web site almost immediately, and that was a cool use of geek tools. (more)

The presentation Doug Schremp (CTO at BTS Partners) gave at the summit is available online (PDF and HTML) along with the Wi-Fi Survey that is still open for individuals and groups to respond to.