Hey there nothing new about OpenMoko, but I thought I would give away some invites to join the Fon community since it promotes free Wifi sharing around the globe (specially in europe), and is the largest wifi community in the world. All you do is plug in the router at home and register it with your account, and you than have access to any fon router around the whole world. They already have hotspot map for around the world, and paired with OpenMoko's GPS it will be easy to find free wifi.
The invites are part of a program "Fonero gets Fonero" which allows current users to send out invites to people to get 75%off the $39.99 wireless router shown above making it $5.99, and the antenna is only two dollars more. The total shipped is only $12.99!
The fonera is a pretty good router and all the stats are shown here:
https://shop.fon.com/FonShop/shop/ShopController?view=product&product=PRD-001
It runs on a modified linux distro some of you probably have heard of called OpenWrt....it also has an atheros chipset *cough* aircrack *cough*
All I need from you is a comment after this article where you put in your Name, Email, and Website, than in the text box what country you are from and a little message if you are so inclined. Only one invite per person though, any comment from the same person twice requesting an invite will be disqualified. First 10 that comment get invites sent to their email
I am out of invites, if you would still like one here is a poster below that is willing to share:
hi, i’m having 18 invitations, too.
mail me at fon_connect@ich-will.net.de
he will send them asap (please: only *1* per person)
February 7th, 2008 - 8:28 am
Hello,
I’m from Germany close to Frankfurt and I would like to participate in the network.
Would be happy to receive an invitation.
Thx
Rainer
February 7th, 2008 - 8:37 am
Hailing from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA!
February 7th, 2008 - 1:16 pm
It’s time to go the fon way… It looks nifty… Hello from Denmark…
February 7th, 2008 - 4:07 pm
Hello,
A nice campaign indeed! If you’ll toss an invitation I’ll make sure there is at least one FON station at the downtown of Oulu =)
February 7th, 2008 - 11:31 pm
Thanks for the offer, it is appreciated!
February 9th, 2008 - 1:18 am
Hello,
Thank you very much for your offer.
February 9th, 2008 - 9:57 am
Hi,
Coming from the nation’s capital Washington DC USA. Thanks for welcoming to fon world.
February 11th, 2008 - 9:03 am
Hey, I was wondering how you got the invites? I have two Foneras that I haven’t gotten invites for and I was wondering you claimed them. I’m assuming you had to register them somehow, but I can’t find out how. I know this is an extremely stupid question, but I swear, Google came up with nada.
February 12th, 2008 - 12:17 am
when you register your fonera hotspot with fon, they should give you 20 invites….this wont work unless you have a hotspot actually registered. I own 4 foneras only 1 of which is registered the other one running now is running Legend 4.5 and the other 2 are still in their boxes waiting to be set up as actual fonspots
February 12th, 2008 - 7:35 pm
hi i’m from Romania , Galati can i have an invite? I’d like to spreed free wifi
February 13th, 2008 - 7:26 am
Hi there, the private companies such as Bell and Rogers have already launched such campaign, but I hope Fone with Linux router would soon beat them out of market.
February 13th, 2008 - 10:53 am
Hi its me from Philly again, can i get that invite resent? The original one does not seem to be working…thanks!
February 13th, 2008 - 1:04 pm
Hey I would like an invite also am I too late to join the free wifi movement.
snakerman
February 14th, 2008 - 11:46 am
Just wanted to let you know, I started a new page, http://www.fonerahacks.com with lots of tutorials and guides on flashing it to third party firmware. Check it out.
February 23rd, 2008 - 12:40 pm
hi, i’m having 18 invitations, too.
mail me at fon_connect@ich-will.net.de
i send them asap (please: only *1* per person)
February 26th, 2008 - 6:36 pm
thanks martin, appreciate it and will add your info to the post