Monthly Archives: April 2007

(more on) Toronto The Good

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[From http://spacing.ca/wire/?p=1821 ]

When: Tuesday, May 15th, starting at 7pm
Where: Fermenting Cellar, Distillery District
Who: DJ Chris Thinn
How Much: $10 gets you into the building, plus food
Cash Bar

Dear Torontonian,

The Festival of Architecture and Design will take place again in May, and the folks at ERA Architects, Spacing Magazine and [murmur] are throwing another Toronto the Good party to celebrate your faithful city. This year the Toronto Society of Architects are also co-hosting, and they will be announcing the winner of their ‚ÄúDesign Matters‚Äù competition, which will be on display during the party. They also want to introduce all of you to Wireless Toronto, an all-volunteer community group celebrating their 2nd anniversary providing free community wireless hotspots in caf?©s, bars, and outdoor places like Dufferin Grove Park and Dundas Square. Come by anytime for some food, drink, interactive and wireless games, and a room full of nice people who care about me.

Love,
Toronto

OneZone no longer free

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As of this Tuesday (April 24th), Toronto Hydro Telecom’s OneZone network started charging for access. Over the course of their 7.5-month free trial, they made some improvements to the network, hardware and software. An independent company rated theirs the fastest “municipal” wifi network around. Still, I often had trouble obtaining an IP address, getting to the login screen, and using any AJAX-based sites. Which is too bad, ’cause the two sites I normally want access to while I’m downtown are GMail and Google Maps — both of which were normally very sluggish on OneZone.

I wish them luck with their monetization. I’m unlikely to use the network again — I don’t live in the “zone”, and though my office is within it, there’s no signal in sight. (I guess the poles on Spadina weren’t part of the package they bought from the city, under questionable circumstances.)

If they’re short on cash, here’s a suggestion: pre-paid service with per-minute billing. I’ll happily today pay you $20 on my credit card, if I know that I’ll be able to (reliably) use the service anytime I’m downtown, at 5 (or maybe even 10) cents per minute.

Not many papers or blogs seem to have covered this yet; here are the ones I could find:

Toronto the Good party, May 15

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Toronto the Good is an annual party celebrating some of the good stuff that Toronto has to offer. Wireless Toronto is mucho honoured to be a featured guest at this year’s event.

Here are the details, hot off the press of the Spacing blog:

The Festival of Architecture and Design will take place again in May, and the folks at ERA Architects, Spacing Magazine and [murmur] are throwing another Toronto the Good party to celebrate your faithful city. This year the Toronto Society of Architects are also co-hosting… They also want to introduce all of you to Wireless Toronto, an all-volunteer community group celebrating their 2nd anniversary providing free community wireless hotspots in caf?©s, bars, and outdoor places like Dufferin Grove Park and Dundas Square. Come by anytime for some food, drink, interactive and wireless games…

When: Tuesday, May 15th, starting at 7pm
Where: Fermenting Cellar, Distillery District
Who: DJ Chris Thinn
How Much: $10 gets you into the building, plus food
Cash Bar

Hope to see many Wireless Toronto friends, supporters and just plain curious at TTG this year, it should be a lot of fun.

UPDATE: The event website is now up: torontothegood.org