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[cheif]

I've got this idea in my head that I haven't been able to articulate very well yet. It's super important to me, like, calling-of-my-life kind of important. It has to do with programming, and the internet, and artificial intelligence, and something called the software crisis, and computer literacy, and teaching, and learning, and most importantly,

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[dirtyinvincible]

If you haven't already, check out Open-mesh, BATMAN, and ROBIN. Also MIT's Roofnet project, and Meraki (although that is suffering from greed).

Doc Searls of Linux Journal had a series of articles detailing his experience with trying to establish a Muni-net in Santa Barbara after Comcast or Verizon (can't remember who) decided SB wasn't worth building out with fiber.

I think I remember hearing about some city that implemented a city-wide wireless WAN. I can't recall what city it was. Maybe it was in the Linux Journal articles.