We started out as a web site dedicated to helping people build their own high speed broadband networks, in your community here, in New Zealand. 

We have grown in to a project center.
 
We run weekly training sessions for high school students to learn about Linux and Open Source Software.

We promote and/or create awareness of Open Source events around our city and country.  We also brain storm ideas to enhance the success of such events.

We research and develop wifi projects based on work done in other parts of New Zealand. 

We design specifications and do concept work for Open Source projects that we feel New Zealand needs to give us a global advantage in the delivery of high speed internet to our community and those visiting us from overseas. 

If you want to know more about why it is important to build our own community networks and what a community node network is, then read thru our web site.

If you're still confused but would like someone to come and talk to your group, then we do that as well.   

Our current feature project is a home work assignment for our high school students.  We have assigned them the task of joining with the local IT community to build a complete node network in Rocking Horse Road, a place in Christchurch where the residents have been told they won't be getting ADSL broadband because it's simply to expensive to deliver it. 

We have forums where you can follow the progress of our projects.  You can join anyone of our teams.

How to support us... Set up a community site yourself using the products and services from us.

Doesn't matter how big it is.

If you're interested in the project but not in a position to build something then you can still support us simply buy reading this web site.

Cheers Don - Broadband Networks Are Fun To Build!

Baby one the way...  28 September 2007.  It all started with a call from the hospital at 8:30 to say come in for a check up.

The original plan was to see us on Monday.  Plans being plans, it didn't go that way.

We got in to the hospital at 10:30 and by 11:30 they had decided that today is the day!

Dear 2Clix,

I am writing with respect to legal action that your company is taking against Mr Simon Wright, the founder of Internet web site Whirlpool.net.au.

I would urge you to reconsider your actions promptly and with draw your statement of claim with the Supreme Court of Queensland as quickly as you can.

I regret that you are taking on a fight that your company can't hope to win. 

I, like many in the technical arena, take a very dim view of any organisation who singles out an individual in our global community.

While Mr Wright is the author of the software platform that is Whirlpool, today he is only one of many members of a community who extend around the world.

http://whirlpool.net.au/faq-wp.cfm gives a good overview of the history of Whirlpool.   

What the overview doesn't say is that Mr Wright is well respected by a global community that extends well past the Australian reach of Whirlpool.

It is my view that Mr Wright has a debt of gratitude owed to him by the Australian Internet industry and that they know this.

The Australian Internet is a multi billion dollar industry, who have a proven track record for looking after their own.

It concerns me that your organisation may be acting under the illusion that your lawyers recommendations are good for your company.

You should realise that Mr Wright has support from a global community that your lawyer may not even understand.

While your company may, or may not, get traction in a court room, the negative publicity that this endeavour is going to have on your company is growing and will be damaging.

A software company much larger than yours, SCO, has just filed for chapter 11 in the US after engaging in the style of law that your company is following.

I am sure that your open letter of apology would be accepted by Mr Wright.  

I would urge you to give consideration to my request for the sake of your company, your staff and your customers.

Kind regard

Don Gould