[Advisors] [ciresearchers] Ties that Bind

[michael gurstein]

I wasn't at Ties that Bind and I didn't meet Steve or hear of his/their work
until probably 1997 or 8 at which time I believe that Apple had already
terminated their/his program.  To answer Adam's question my sense was that
there wasn't much continuity from Apple's initiative (Steve was
uncomfortable I think that they had withdrawn funding in mid-stream from a
number of projects) but by that time the Digital Divide associated funding
from various US and other government and foundation sources was starting to
kick in big time with their own objectives and priorities.  (But I always
have a faulty memory in these areas.

 

M

 

From: ciresearchers-owner at vancouvercommunity.net
[mailto:ciresearchers-owner at vancouvercommunity.net] On Behalf Of Richard
Lowenberg
Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2014 8:35 PM
To: ciresearchers at vancouvercommunity.net
Cc: Adam
Subject: Re: [ciresearchers] Ties that Bind

 

Hello Adam,

Greetings.   We met briefly at GLOCOM a generation ago.

I was also one of the Ties That Bind attendees, as Steve arranged Apple's
hosting in '94 and '95,

after attending the Tele-Community Conference in Telluride, CO, that I
organized.   In fact,

the Telluride InfoZone, an early CN, received an Apple Library of Tomorrow
award (lots of 

public access computers, printers, etc.) in '93.   The following year, Steve
introduced me to 

Dewayne Hendricks (though we had met via Dave Hughes, previously), and
working with 

Tetherless Access, Ltd., Telluride set up a community-wide spread-spectrum
wireless network.[MG>] ) an

When Steve died, I set up a remembrance blog:
http://communitynetworking2008.wordpress.com/

Richard

 

 

On Oct 19, 2014, at 8:51 PM, Adam wrote:





Tidying through an old pile of conference badges I found one from Steve
Cisler's "ties that bind" 1995 (subtitle: when we were young :-))   I think
likely a few on this list might remember and were there.

Thinking about the conference, I started to dig through old files looking
for information about Apple's early 1990s community wireless project and
"NII band", only paper I found is still online
<https://www.isoc.org/inet96/proceedings/g1/g1_4.htm>

Interested in list member's opinions: was Apple's work influential?  Or is
it my memory playing tricks while thinking happily about an old friend.

Adam

 

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