NSF Backs Open Source Wireless Mesh Project

Via GigaOM: NSF Backs Open Source Wireless Mesh Project. Looks like the CUWIN folks found some grant money. This is good overall for community wireless development and also for open-source networking.

Earthlink and Tropos might be looking to make millions off of muni wireless, but members of the open source community are hard at work trying to make wireless networking free. And they just got some funds to help their cause. Sascha Meinrath, of the Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network, CUWIN, just called me this morning to say his open source wireless mesh project received a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. Sascha says he plans to use the money to add staff, scour the globe for open source partners, and boost research and testing.