Are you ready for Something New and Different?
Welcome to WikiMetroNet, YOUR VERY OWN on-line MetroNet User's Manual!
Hi Folks,
On this website, you're the producer AND the consumer, the reader AND the writer. We're all in this one together. If you're new to the Wiki concept, check out this good brief on the WikiWikiWeb before going any further.
By using a Wiki to create this Users Manual together on this website, we're addressing an industry-wide problem head-on by drawing the solution from within our community: we all will benefit when we begin to share information on what works and what doesn't with new metropolitan networks - by putting this information out in a community-wide website like this one, all of us in the metropolitan broadband industry can start capturing input...
- from experts in the industry
- from industry pioneers
- from city officials at all stages of the network process
- investigating to planning
- designing to deploying
- operating the new networks to employing network applications
We will arrive at innovative government and society faster by sharing our experiments, our learning, and our knowledge and building this Users Manual jointly to capture all that data and keep it updated real-time.
Because this industry is such a new and dynamic area, it makes sense to use a dynamic, on-line tool like a Wiki to spread a wide net and capture the best knowledge and lessons learned about the process, the technology, etc. This should be an exciting project, which will take us all down new paths of cooperation and collaboration - we can all learn so much from each other and hopefully, this type of tool will encourage more experimentation and accelerate the learning curve for all of us.
We're all contributors on this site, sharing our insights and knowledge to promote a smarter municpal / metropolitan broadband market for a better society based on ubiquitous high-speed broadband Internet.
So, check out this wonderful tool, play around and have some fun, learn how to edit and create, jump in the WikiSandbox to experiment, and then, with your new-found skills, join the club and start making this your own User's Manual - learn from it, and when you learn a new insight, add it in by editing a current page, or adding a new page of your own. See for yourself how the new Internet can be used to promote community goals -- like accelerating community knowledge about MetroNets. As you benefit, so will we all. Invite others to join in and spread the word. We'll get there faster than you think if we all work together.
Originator
John Cooper
Founder and President,
MetroNetIQ
and
Editor,
WikiMetroNet
Notes on Using a Wiki
Here are some useful default pages installed along with the PmWiki software:
More information about PmWiki can be found at http://www.pmwiki.org/.
