[MLB-WIRELESS] AWA and Sydney Wireless (was RE: [WG-Structure] Re: [Assoc] RE: Re[2]: [MLB-WIRELESS] Community Wireless Clientproject.)

[Jamie Lovick]

On Thu, 16 May 2002, James Healy wrote:

> One thing that is confusing me, and is making this discussion really
> hard to follow..
> 
> Are AWA and Sydney Wireless the same thing? I was under the
> impression that Sydney Wireless was rolling out a network, and AWA
> was promoting itself as an overarching industry association? Is this
> right?

As quoted from our webpage at http://www.australianwireless.org/ ..

"... the Australian Wireless Association has been formed from the
merging of two Sydney community wireless networking groups, for the
purpose of making life easier for community wireless networks around
Australia by being a hub of information between community wireless
networks, vendors, government, and the wireless industry."

So yes, Sydney Wireless is part of the Australian Wireless Association,
but is more the day to day community face, where the
http://www.australianwireless.org/ site, which is still being developed,
is more refined, and will have easy to find tried and tested information
available, some of which may originate from the Sydney Wireless site.

Also from the site:

"It is our goal to make it easy for everyone who is interested in
community wireless networking to be able to get setup and connect to
others using wireless technology, by providing easy access to
information on how to make it all work.

We are working to form relationships with vendors and others in the
wireless industry to ensure easy access for all members to the latest
in technology, and to be able to access network services without the
worry of having to deal with large commercial entities wireless service 
providers or government just to connect to others in the community. The 
association is not an Internet Access Provider. It makes itself
available to those interested in creating or connecting to a
independent wireless network for members of the community by providing
information, subsidies, best practices and guidelines to ensure that
community wireless networks are within the law and government
regulations."

So essentually we are working to both build, and assist other to built
and support community wireless networks.

> Not trying to push any points, just trying to clear something up,
> cos from where I'm sitting AWA and Sydney wireless appears to be the
> same organisation (AWA has resources on sydneywiresless.com, etc
> etc) Presumably it just appears this way as Awa is just Sydney
> people at this stage.

While the Australian Wireless Association was formed in Sydney, we have
had interest from all over the country, including Melbourne.

Have a look at the site at http://www.australianwireless.org/, as it is
constantly being updated with our progress, and therefore is a work in
progress.

I hope this clears things up a little.

Regards

Jamie

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