Wireless Education Project planned

Didnt I just tell you that we will be funded from government institutions. What I did not mention was that schools may also contribute.

Who says that we are not complying to the WUG constitution? Me and saa044 just a day or so ago had a discussion with some of the other members about how we could improve the network or at least parts of it. We are not kicking the WUG in the underbelly. If we had no intention of being there, we would not have been there and then the MK highsite will have been removed by now since that hardware belongs to Greeny (Johann).

No. None of us are going against the WUG but my company saw an opportunity to reach parts of the market which previously had been inaccessible to us. And no, this is not a profit network. Its completely non-profit.

Our main technical kick-off team concist of Me, Greeny and saa044 as well as a person who has no bonds with PTA-WUG whatsoever. His name is Juan Broodreik. He is a network security specialist. I find myself in the e-learning industry as an IT Director taking responsibility for all of the technical services provided. Johann pretty much does the same as I do except for, het has his own business and a broad knowledge of networks, hardware, servers and so more.

About you comment on the physics of WEP, we have a huge amount of work as well as planning to be done. We announced WEP in order to get a feeling for the interest from the public and the amount of mails I received was formidable.

I estimate that it may take us at least another 3 months of work to the point where we have our first high site. For now we may provide our services through meraka institute's infrastructure.

We have lots of time to do some quality work and lots of potential for sponsorhip.

Just like you have a ton of question do we find ourselves in the same boat. We are currently working on the network concept to do exactly that; get answers to our questions.

I would hate to replace PTA-WUG. But I would also hate to let this opportunity slip by.
 
Scruffy

With regard to you unanswered questions. We manage to fund the network in much the same way as the WUG. By begging for money from the community and other institutions who want to contribute to our cause.

With regard to our expertise. Apart from the three members of the team (currently connected to PTAWUG), there are a host of other people and institutions providing us with the knowledge and support we need to get something like this off the ground.

As for your question about "why". We have the exclusive purpose to promote and develop the educational service in South Africa, starting in Pretoria. We do not intend to run the network in the same way as the WUG. Although some of the services on the network does overlap the services offered on the WUG, the services on our network will be used exclusively for educational purposes by students, teachers and researcher.

Since connecting our main educational company's internet cafe's with ADSL is expensive and absurdly counter productive, we decide to use wireless technology to do so. We do not intent to be competition for the WUG since we do not have the same goals or objectives. We will focus on developing the education system in South Africa, making education free and also more accessible to the millions of poor people that do not have the luxury of simply going to varsity.

I hope this answers your questions. Now pleas answer mine ...

Am I understanding correctly. If we continue with this project, PTAWUG will see this as being "against their constitution" and will kick us off the network?
If so, please explain to me(and the other readers of this forum) how developing a network that has got noting to do with the WUG but only use the same wireless technology is against the WUG's constitution. None of us has damaged the wug in any way and no of us intend to. Please explain.

Regards

Greenius
 
Greeny

Thanks so much! You are the first one to answer selectively and politely.
I have seen however that my questions do not seem to be welcome and will stop bugging you guys.

With regards to the PTAWUG constitution I cannot give you the answer. Unfortunately I am a very inquisitive person asking a lot of questions and I try to do my homework as thorough as possible. I have spent the time to acquire about PTAWUG and have thoroughly studied their well written constitution provided. I only derived that WEP seems to be against the constitution from what I read. Maybe one of the wug members can answer this more specifically. They always answer my emails very politely.

P.S. The impression I got of PTAWUG was not that it is the kind of network/people kicking others off their network.
 
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Ok. Now we're on the same wavelength. It's a pitty for the misunderstandig. Sincere apologies indeed. I think greeny is more awake this time of the day than the rest of us.

Thanks for your enquiries. We will keep you guys posted as and when necessary.
 
Scruffy

Questions are most welcome. We will answer the questions as best we can. Since we are in planning phase, we have a lot of questions as well, but that will be sorted out over time.

As for the WUG constitution. I can only speak for myself, but i do believe that none of use are against the WUG or its constitution. I am a member of PTAWUG and I intend to stay one even though i might connect to WEP as well. If this is a problem for PTAWUG, then so be it. We will have no issue with someone connection to WEP and PTAWUG.

Please feel free to ask more questions if you want. And please note that we will let you all know as soon as our web site goes live. All the information will be there.

Kind Regards

Greenius
 
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