Beyond City-Wide Wireless: Panel Discussion, Tech Demo, & "Steal this Film" screening

Open Circuit presentation on using the RNC as an opportunity for neighborhood-based wireless technology and demonstration of Open Mesh for sharing wireless signals.

Where:
Arise! Bookstore
2441 Lyndale Ave. S. Minneapolis 55405

When: Thursday 19 June 2008 at 07:30 PM

Panel Discussion

* Cristina Lopez - Digital Media Consultant
* Christopher Mitchell - Director, Telecommunications as Commons Initiative and Institute for Local Self-Reliance
* Peter Fleck - Technology consultant and webmaster.

Open Mesh Demo

Followed by a demonstration of Open Mesh; bring a laptop or wireless device to test out if you have one.

Movie Screening

Screening of Steal This Film starts at dusk.

Steal This Film is a film series documenting the movement against intellectual property released via the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol. Two parts have been released so far, and it has been reported that a third part is in production, slated for 2008/9 cinema distribution in the US. BoingBoing's Cory Doctorow called it "an amazing, funny, enraging and inspiring documentary series."

For more information, visit http://tcopencircuit.org