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Open Cities Toronto 2007 is an unconference being held June 23rd and 24th at the Centre for Social Innovation that hopes to explore how the concept of "openness" (as in: open source, open doors, open space, etc.) can be expanded to improve the way the city and its citizens work, live, and play together.

Those Wireless Toronto folks have struck again! The newest hotspot--which means free wifi--is in the Junction, at the Axis Gallery and Grill, a place with a great patio and a warm neighbourhood-y feel (3048 Dundas St. West).

TOist has written about the mess the big four carriers are making of WiFi in TO (and Canada) in the past, with a mixture of frustration and apathy. So it's nice to see that some locally-wired citizens, loosely known as Wireless Toronto, are getting together to discuss the idea of creating wireless community networks. They're specifically looking to Ile Sans Fils, a Montreal group that offers WiFi when you're in their radius. TOist had opportunity to try it out a while back, and only hopes this group can muster up a similar operation for the WiFi-wanting here in TO. Gabe Sawhney will lead a discussion about approaches, models, and strategies for a community wireless group in Toronto.