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============================================= The First Euro Conference on Mobile Government The Euro mGov 2005 10-12 July 2005, Sussex University, Brighton, The United Kingdom ============================================= http://www.icmg.mgovernment.org/euro.html **Bringing Mobile Technologies and Government Businesses Together.** **Research, Policy, and Practice Presentations - Exhibitions and Demos** OBJECTIVES: ============ The EURO mGOV 2005 is the first in the series of International Conferences on Mobile Government (ICMG). The major objective of the ICMG series is to set the scene for and promote the world-wide mobile government developments. The EURO mGov 2005 promote cooperation among the public sector, IT and Telecom Industry, and Academia to be a forum for networking, exchange of ideas and discussions on all aspects of e-government, mobile business and mobile technologies. The conference theme is "The Transition from e-government to m-government". The Conference aims to become the largest forum and showcase for developments on the public administration and mobile Internet technologies, services and business models. The conference will be covering all aspects of mobile government, its technologies, services, implementation and implications. The industrial stream will have various exhibitions and demos of Mobile Government IT solutions, telecom infrastructure, applications and services. The research stream will promote discussions and exchange of ideas on significant and recent research related to the practice of Mobile Government. THE INVITATION ============== The EURO mGOV 2005 organization invites late-break-in papers describing research in progress on all aspect of mobile government. Your paper should normally reflect on any topics related to mobile government, e-government, mobile business, mobile technologies, impact on the government organizations or the society. A list of possible topics that EURO mGOV covers may be found on the conference web site at http://www.icmg.mgovernment.org/topics.htm. Please also visit the list of accepted talks at: http://www.icmg.mgovernment.org/presentationslist.htm Please prepare and send your papers (an A4 page) according to EURO mGOV paper formatting guidelines. The Papers should be no more Ten (10) A4 size pages (word / rtf file) adhering strictly to the guidelines for authors. (see the submissions page on the web site. http://www.icmg.mgovernment.org ) Where to send? [EMAIL PROTECTED] (please indicate "latebreak-in" in the subject of your e-mail) ========== When to send? as soon as possible but no later than May 27, 2005. ========== The program chairs will evaluate all proposals as they arrive and the results will be sent out soon after the evaluation with the "instructions for late break in". All accepted papers will receive a either a presentation slot or a poster slot and the papers will be published by the mobile government consortium international as a separate proceedings in addition to refereed full papers. The late-break-in authors will be offered a discounted/early bird registration rate if the payment is received before the May 27th, 2005. Conference highlights: ====================== ** Tutorials on mobility, e-government, and mobile business ** Practice, policy and research presentations ** Special sessions on hot issues in electronic and mobile government ** 7 plenary talks by experts from industry, public sector and academia ** Interactive Industry day for networking, exhibitions and demos ** Exhibitions/ Demos by leading Mobile Telecom, IT co's and device manufacturers ** Demos of recent applications, services and devices ** Networking events ** Social Events For full details please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://www.icmg.mgovernment.org/euro.html ==== Ibrahim Kushchu, MBA, MSc, PhD Associate Professor, and Director CODI and mGovLab.org International University of Japan Minami Uonuma-Shi Niigata 949-7277 JAPAN Tel +81 257 791464 Fax +81 257 791187 Please visit EURO mGOV 2005: http://www.icmg.mgovernment.org http://www.iuj.ac.jp/faculty/ik/INDEX.HTML http://www.mgovlab.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <wireless@lists.bawug.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 1:36 AM Subject: Re: [BAWUG] hackable APs question > > > Finally, there is this to consider about StarOS. > > http://seattlewireless.net/~mattw/fnorg/20041118.html > > > > Yes, its me doing the finger pointing, and it would be tough to prove > > the part about the Orinoco driver unless we all went to court. (I no > > longer have access to the source code, obviously.) > > > > But its true. > > > > jim > > Is it really true Jim? > Here is what Lonnie has to say: > You might think Jim is well know and respected, but all I can say is > that he is well known. In that blog he says we are taking away the > Authors "Moral" rights, so we quickly changed it so everybody can see > all the bootup stuff. We were OK legally since we gave the diff and did > not remove any copyright from the code, we just stopped the display. We > hid nothing or we would not have provided the diff. We did not think > people like to watch that stuff but some guys must not have TV. Did you > catch on that he was worried about the little ISO flash writer that we > provide for convenience? > > As for the Vivato thing, we are under NDA and so was (is?) Jim. He also > gives directions to cause trouble for the Vivato system. Yes the very > company he claims to have been employed by. He is obviously a highly > moral person with unquestionable scruples and ethics. I bet they > treasure the days that he worked for them. Is he your Hero? > > For the record we have an OEM AP Development License from Agere and > later Proxim. That gave us access to their entire Orinoco source code > base and believe me NONE of it is GPL. Do you honestly think we would > rip off the GPL Hermes driver and make it the Valemount Orinoco driver > when we had the REAL thing? Maybe Jim was just furious because we > showed how simple it was to load the tertiary image and make an AP where > he and his whole team of Engineers could not accomplish it. Also for > the record, Vivato had the very same license and code that we had. Why > was Jim fooling around with the GPL client code when he had the whole > enchilada? > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > And then there is this little tidbit that another guy posted: > > > What about the issues that Matthew has brought up a few times? > >>It seems that Jim, another well known and well respected individual > >>has said: http://seattlewireless.net/~mattw/fnorg/20041118.html > > > Judd...Here is the opinion of the "well known and well respected > individual": > > "the wet-dream of wireless broadband isn't good for more than crusty > stains on the front of your pants while basking in the anticipatory > stage, and brown streaks inside your pants once the buzz is gone, > the babe turns hag, and you finally understand that you'll never > compete with a wired infrastructure." > > Hmm...He may be respected by you, but he does not get my vote. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Some of us actually belive that our wireless broadband is a bit more > than wet dreams, skid marks, or crusty stains in the front of our pants. > > George > > > _______________________________________________ > BAWUG's general wireless chat mailing list > [unsubscribe] http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > _______________________________________________ BAWUG's general wireless chat mailing list [unsubscribe] http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
