Adam Shand is best known for his leadership and advocacy work as part of the Personal Telco

Personal Telco

The Personal Telco Project is a wireless community network project in Portland, Oregon. It was founded by Adam Shand in November 2000 after he read a Slashdot article about the Consume The Net project in London....

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Shand founded Personal Telco

Personal Telco

The Personal Telco Project is a wireless community network project in Portland, Oregon. It was founded by Adam Shand in November 2000 after he read a Slashdot article about the Consume The Net project in London....

 in November 2000 which subsequently grew into one of the largest community wireless projects in the United States

United States

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In 2003 he moved back home to Wellington, New Zealand to work as a senior systems administrator, and later became the operations manager, for Weta Digital

Weta Digital

Weta Digital is a digital visual effects company based in Wellington, New Zealand. It was founded by Peter Jackson, Richard Taylor, and Jamie Selkirk in 1993 to produce the digital special effects for Heavenly Creatures. In 2007 Weta Digital’s Senior Visual Effects Supervisor, Joe Letteri, was...

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He is one of the original members of the Shmoo Group

Shmoo Group

The Shmoo Group is an international organization founded by Bruce Potter in the late 1990s as a non-profit security think-tank. The group is composed of people such as Apache Foundation director Ben Laurie, anonymity guru Len Sassaman, PGP Corporation CTO Jon Callas, and Hollywood film system...

and the primary author of the Wireless Commons Manifesto.

External links

• http://adam.shand.net/
• http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1710107/
• http://www.personaltelco.net/
• http://www.wirelesscommons.org/