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'''Adam Shand''' is a New Zealand visual effects operations manager and advocate of [[community wireless network]]s.

==Career==
Shand founded [[Personal Telco]] in November 2000 which subsequently grew into one of the largest [[wireless community projects|community wireless projects]] in the United States.<ref name="free">{{Cite news|author=Dundas|first=Zach|date=9 June 2004|title=Free for All: How a brainy Brit and an army of idealists are leading Portland to Internet Nirvana|work=Willamette Week|url=http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-3294-free_for_all.html|access-date=17 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180320171103/http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-3294-free-for-all.html|archive-date=20 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title= Alternative Net: Wireless activists bring the battle over public space to the airwaves |author= Andrew Blum |date= August–September 2001 |work= Metropolis Magazine |url= http://www.metropolismag.com/html/content_0801/ob/ob05.html |url-status=dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20010821074014/http://www.metropolismag.com/html/content_0801/ob/ob05.html |archivedate= 21 August 2001 |accessdate= 17 August 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title= Adam Shand, Founder, PersonalTelcoProject |author=Vince Vittore |date= 1 January 2003  |work= Wireless Review |url= http://wirelessreview.com/ar/wireless_adam_shandfounder_personaltelcoproject/index.htm |url-status=dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20030208022647/http://wirelessreview.com/ar/wireless_adam_shandfounder_personaltelcoproject/index.htm  |archivedate= 8 February 2003 |accessdate= 17 August 2013 }}</ref>
He is one of the original members of the Shmoo Group<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shmoo.com/members.html|title=The Shmoo Group|website=www.shmoo.com}}</ref> and the primary author of the Wireless Commons Manifesto.<ref>{{Cite web|date=17 August 2007|title=The Wireless Commons|url=https://adam.nz/wireless-commons/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210214101922/https://adam.nz/wireless-commons/|archive-date=14 February 2021|access-date=17 May 2021|work=adam.nz}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Apprich|first=C.|title=The Eternal Network: The Ends and Becoming of Network Culture|last2=Dragona|first2=D.|last3=Lovink|first3=G.|last4=Wüst|first4=F.|last5=Gansing|first5=K.|publisher=Institute of Network Cultures|year=2020|isbn=978-94-92302-45-8|location=Amsterdam|pages=14-22|chapter=What Was the Network? A Conversation on the Possibilities and Limits of the Network Imaginary.|chapter-url=https://pure.rug.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/127490690/TheEternalNetwork_1_.pdf}}</ref>

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]].<ref name="free" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Adam Shand – From WiFi To Wild Via Weta|url=https://accessgranted.nz/episodes/2018/3/13/adam-shand-from-wifi-to-wild-via-weta|access-date=2021-05-17|website=Access Granted NZ|language=en-NZ}}</ref>

==Visual effects==
The company produced visual effects for the films:<ref>Listed in respective movie credits</ref>

* 2011 The Adventures of Tintin (systems manager: Weta Digital) 
* 2009 Avatar (systems manager: Weta Digital) 
* 2009 The Lovely Bones (systems manager: Weta Digital) 
* 2009 District 9 (systems manager: Weta Digital – uncredited) 
* 2008 The Day the Earth Stood Still (lead systems engineer: Weta Digital) 
* 2008 The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (code operations manager: Weta Digital) 
* 2008 Jumper (code operations manager: Weta Digital) 
* 2007 The Water Horse (digital operations manager: weta digital) 
* 2007 30 Days of Night (code operations manager) 
* 2007 Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer (code operations manager) 
* 2007 Bridge to Terabithia (digital operations manager: weta digital) 
* 2006 Eragon (digital operations manager: weta digital) 
* 2006 X-Men: The Last Stand (digital operations manager: weta digital) 
* 2005 King Kong (digital operations manager) 
* 2004 I, Robot (systems administrator: Weta Digital) 
* 2004 Van Helsing (senior systems administrator: Weta Digital – uncredited) 
* 2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (systems administrator: Weta Digital)

==References==
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== External links ==
* http://adam.nz/
* http://www.personaltelco.net/
* {{IMDb name |id=1710107}}<!-- not a reliable source -->

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