We bought Gspace from Rahul Jonna, its developer. But because of Leo´s birth, I don´t have time to blog the whole story so I communicated with Om Malik who, after congratulating me for the birth of my forth child (and enquiring if I was on my way to build a sports team;), kindly volunteer to blog the story.

Thanks Om for sharing the story of our purchase and our plans to integrate Gspace with the FON Liberator with the blogging community.

Even though FON is less than a year old, we have offices in China, Korea, Japan, Netherlands, France, Sweden, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK and US. We also deliver our Foneras in all of the EU. But if you live in a country where we cannot ship Foneras to, we recommend that either you buy one and have it shipped to a friend in a country where we can ship to, or if you or a friend show up in person to a FON office anywhere in the world and simply show your passport and a ticket that proves that you are going to a destination that we can´t ship to. We will trust you as a FONero and give you 3 Foneras for free to take to your country.

Example, you are a Chilean who travels to San Francisco, you are a Malaysian in Hong Kong, you are a Senegalese in Paris, an Argentine in Madrid, etc. Just come to our offices and you will get up to 3 Foneras to take with you back home and start spreading the FON Movement. If you have any questions about this promo pls write to Nina. We have already implemented this with Latin Americans who come to Madrid.

Yesterday we launched in Hong Kong. First my apologies to the people of Hong Kong. I am really sorry I was not there for the FON party, but my wife is due any moment now and my fourth child should be born this week, so I could not attend. I hope you understand.

Second, I want to congratulate Yat Siu and his team. Guys you did an AMAZING job. Bravo! What follows are links to pictures of the event and news coverage. If you have any more links, please send them to me and I will publish them.
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Today El Mundo reports that the record companies, and copyright associations of Spain were dealt a heavy blow when a music downloader was absolved in a lawsuit in Santander. Basically, the judge said that file sharing for recreational/private use is not a crime in Spain. This was good news to the 48 year old accused man for whom the DA was asking that he be given 2 years in jail.
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Today is my lucky day. I won the FON German Lottery. This is how it works. When we launch a new country at FON all employees chip in with 3 euros each and we individually guess how many FONeros we will get in a certain amount of time. We do this for fun, but we also do it cause we have found that our collective knowledge is a good guess of what is actually going to happen.
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Here it is! (click on “aquí está”). Please send your ideas on how to improve the code to Iurgi and we will all be tremendously grateful.

Also do let us know if you would like to do Openwrt projects, since we are offering grants for interesting ones.

What happened is that we wanted to give Germany a boost and I blogged an article that said that we had chosen Germany and Austria, the countries with the most reliable FONeros, to implement the FON Promise. The objective here was to quickly establish ourselves as the number one network in Germany ahead of T-Mobile. With Austria, since Austrians speak German, we felt that they would feel bad if they saw the web site in German promoting an offer that they could not get, so we brought them along for the ride.
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Today we introduced a feature at FON by which people who have personalized their sign up pages appear in our maps as a green point with a white star in it. So, randomly, I went to Fon Maps looking for a FONero who had personalized his FON Sign Up Page, so when roaming linuses or aliens find his WiFi signal they learned about him/her.
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