Seattle Community Network: An Overdue Giant Update and Another Call To Action | by Esther Jang | Seattle Community Network | Medium

This post is a long overdue update on SCN’s activities since my first introductory post in 2019. Since then, we’ve built out the beginnings of the Seattle community network with 7 core cellular sites serving LTE-based Internet access: coverage map here and searchable version here. We’ve also taught two cohorts of Digital Stewards (Adult and Youth), our training course on LTE and community networks, and taught at 3 iterations of Tribal Broadband Bootcamps. We’re currently recruiting users (both homes and local partner orgs or businesses) for all of our network sites! To start, we’ll be prioritizing community members covered under our City and County grants, or local businesses and organizations who will be serving Internet access to the broader public. But we are also discussing how to expand to include other members and supporters as users, especially those who want to contribute bandwidth or computing resources or work with us on DIY installs, and figuring out how to integrate unlicen

This post is a long overdue update on SCN’s activities since my first introductory post in 2019. Since then, we’ve built out the beginnings of the Seattle community network with 7 core cellular sites serving LTE-based Internet access: coverage map here and searchable version here. We’ve also taught two cohorts of Digital Stewards (Adult and Youth), our training course on LTE and community networks, and taught at 3 iterations of Tribal Broadband Bootcamps. We’re currently recruiting users (both homes and local partner orgs or businesses) for all of our network sites! To start, we’ll be prioriti