OSWC

The Open Source Wireless Coalition continues to expand and now includes key open source research, development, and implementation groups around the globe, including:

• Acorn Active Media Foundation
• Austin Wireless City Project
• BGWireless
• Chambana.net
• CUWiN Foundation
• The Ethos Group
• FreeNetworks.org
• FreiFunk.net
• FunkFeuer.at
• Funkfeuer Graz
• HRFreeNet
• Île Sans Fil
• Less Networks
• Meraka Institute & Wireless Africa Initiative, CSIR
  

OSWC is pleased to be one of a number of organizations that submitted responses to the Boston RFI within the deadline. While there is no way of telling at this time how the project will progress, the OSWC proposal has garnered attention from a number of quarters. We hope that this attention will influence the perception of open-source wireless solutions as a serious option in the future of community and municipal telecommunications and network architecture, and we are happy to be participating in this process.

OSWC is please to welcome the Meraka Institute & Wireless Africa Initiative (http://wirelessafrica.meraka.org.za). Supported by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in South Africa, the Wireless Africa group is researching ways and means to develop sustainable information and communications technology in developing countries. This will be achieved through community-owned decentralized mesh networks built on open source technology.

Welcome to the new homepage of the Open-Source Wireless Coalition! Currently OSWC is working on drafting a response proposal to the Open Air Boston RFI (http://www.openairboston.net). Please use the contact form if you wish to receive additional information on this effort within the open-source community.