There is HUGE NSF grant coming available concerning wifi, and I was also thinking that applying to ardc might be an option.

Does anyone here still care enough about wifi to want to participate? In my case I would like to gear up mainly to get into and stay
in the wifi8 standardization process in the IEEE, although I am surfacing to fix some bugs and try to make improvements in the mt79 chipset which is thus far, pretty amazing. I am really pleased with OpenWrt on this chip, so far. An OpenWrt one should be arriving any day....

Anyway, a start at a proposal for ardc is here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x2HBYmSJbMoVMbLzKgkOVSvMnIFZdJQE823Jlg0mfX0/edit?usp=sharing


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Dave Täht CSO, LibreQos