Tomorrow York City will host the Governor’s Awards for the Arts in Pennsylvania festivities and awards program. We will be out and about all night and will be tweeting and possibly doing live video streaming from various parts of the evening. If you’re on twitter follow #govawards to keep up with the action. Check out [...]
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Governor’s Awards for the Arts in Pennsylvania
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010LIVESTREAM: York Drive Aware Final Awards Presentation
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010A week ago we saw and heard the media clips prepared by local high school students for this year’s DriveAware media push. Tonight we’ll see who won and the awards that will be given out.
LIVESTREAM: SADD York Drive Aware Media Presentation
Saturday, March 20th, 2010Watch it streamed live here http://www.ustream.tv/channel/y-fi-videos York Drive Aware Contest Rules The “Drive Aware – drive unimpaired” Media presentation is a continuation of the Impaired Driving Initiative by the City of York and its Police Department to eliminate impaired driving. The Center for Traffic Safety in partnership with the York City Police Impaired Driving Initiative is [...]
Livestreaming Mayor’s Quarterly Downtown Update
Monday, February 22nd, 2010Who? Anyone who is interested in downtown York What? Information sharing on what’s happening downtown When? Wednesday, February 24, 8 – 9:30 a.m. Where? The Studio at the Strand (entrance on Philadelphia Street) Why? These quarterly presentations will give you a chance to hear all about what is happening in downtown York. Downtown Inc committee chairs [...]
2 Great New Partners
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010This week is a big week for Y-FI as we bring online 2 new partners in the endeavor to bring free wireless connectivity to downtown York. We are pleased to announce that The Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center and the Camera Center of York have both joined our mission. The Strand-Capitol, up until now has not [...]
ABC 27 News Clip
Thursday, January 21st, 2010Yesterday was a big news day for Y-FI. Not only did we cover the York Saint Patrick’s Day Parade press conference but we were interviewed for an evening news story by ABC 27 WHTM. Thanks to Dara Rees from ABC27 for interviewing us and thank you to Annette Fisher and Erin Stine for participating in [...]
Hello 2010!
Friday, January 8th, 2010An Open Letter about the progress at Y-FI. At this moment there are 2 locations up and operating. As you may know, Central Market is now completely covered by our signal and we have just recently brought online the Music & More by Williams Study Center on west Philadelphia St. The traffic on the Central [...]
Y-FI in the News
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009Since our initial rollout at Central Market we have been getting some press from the local newspapers. This is a huge help for us as we spread the word about our Y-FI project. We’ve had numerous contacts from various businesses who have seen the article in the York Dispatch or the Central Penn Business Journal [...]
The Switch to Open
Sunday, November 15th, 2009If you know anything about our brief history, you know we’ve been working towards bringing free wi-fi to York City using a technology from Meraki, a mesh network company out of California that developed out of a MIT graduate project. The hardware Maraki produces and their software back end work very well and we were [...]
Time to get a little Dirty
Friday, November 6th, 2009This coming week will be a busy one for us. We need to roll up our sleeves and get to work installing our very first network nodes. We’re getting out our ladders, tools and drills so we can run cables and mount our test units. All this so we can provide FREE wireless internet to [...]