Meinrath has founded a number of other organizations, among them X-Lab (a technology think tank), the CUWiN Foundation, and the Open Source Wireless Coalition.

[3] In 2004 Meinrath worked as a policy analyst for Free Press, a national media reform organization.

In 2007 he moved to Washington, D.C., to become the Research Director of the Wireless Futures Program at the New America Foundation.

[11] Commotion is an open source “device-as-infrastructure” communication platform that integrates users’ existing cell phones, Wi-Fi enabled computers, and other wireless-capable devices to create community- and metro-scale, peer-to-peer communications networks.

[17] Past locations have also included St. Charles, Missouri, Washington, DC, and Vienna, Austria.