Two Boston area bloggers, Michael Feldman and Deborah Elizabeth Finn, attended last week's Boston Wi-Fi Meetup and wrote extensive summaries on each of their weblogs.

Michael wrote:

The session was called to order at 9:20 with a slide show from Adam Weiss, the museums's point man for the wi-fi project, giving an overview of what wireless technology is all about, and how the electromagnetic spectrum is divided up into hundreds of regulated and unregulated segments. Despite the well-known axiom that Powerpoint-type presentations have the highest noise to signal ratio known to man, this was a surprisingly useful overview, especially as it resonated in later references to open spectrum technologies. (The session was called to order at 9:20 with a slide show from Adam Weiss, the museums's point man for the wi-fi project, giving an overview of what wireless technology is all about, and how the electromagnetic spectrum is divided up into hundreds of regulated and unregulated segments. Despite the well-known axiom that Powerpoint-type presentations have the highest noise to signal ratio known to man, this was a surprisingly useful overview, especially as it resonated in later references to open spectrum technologies. (more)

Steve Garfield is posting a lot of notes and photos from the Boston Wi-Fi Summit over at the weblog he maintains for City Councillor John Tobin. (There's no category collecting all the related entries so start at the homepage and dig in!)