Re: [liberationtech] Can HAM radio be used for communication between health workers in rural areas with no cell connectivity?

2013-03-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 09:36:41PM +, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb wrote: I have one answer: Amateur radio. Forget mobile phone networks. Amateur radio is cheap, very durable and will provide you with the functions you need, and if you can get access to amateur radio operators in your

Re: [liberationtech] Can HAM radio be used for communication between health workers in rural areas with no cell connectivity?

2013-03-07 Thread Griffin Boyce
How far is the distance being covered, and in what kind of terrain (flat plains, hills)? HAM might not even be necessary if it's fairly close (relatively speaking). GMRS radios can cover several miles. Other small/cheap handhelds can cover a couple of miles in ideal conditions. Having said

Re: [liberationtech] Hispanohablantes / Spanish-Speaking LibTech Community

2013-03-07 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I'm also interested in a list in Spanish. On 03/06/2013 07:03 PM, Robert Guerra wrote: Ya existe una lista con enfoque en LAC. Aqui los detalles - RedLatAm mailing list redla...@lists.accessnow.org mailto:redla...@lists.accessnow.org

Re: [liberationtech] Hispanohablantes / Spanish-Speaking LibTech Community

2013-03-07 Thread Ophelia Noor
Yo también Enviado desde el ciberespacio El 07/03/2013, a las 14:11, hellekin helle...@cepheide.org escribió: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I'm also interested in a list in Spanish. On 03/06/2013 07:03 PM, Robert Guerra wrote: Ya existe una lista con enfoque en

Re: [liberationtech] Hispanohablantes / Spanish-Speaking LibTech Community

2013-03-07 Thread Katitza Rodriguez
Tal vez Sandra podrias compartir mayor informacion con la lista asi sabemos si debemos comunicarnos contigo o no. : ) -- Katitza Rodriguez International Rights Director Electronic Frontier Foundation kati...@eff.org kati...@datos-personales.org (personal email) Please support EFF - Working to

[liberationtech] Please Help Netroots Blogger Lowell Feld

2013-03-07 Thread Yosem Companys
From: Lowell Feld lowk...@gmail.com I just found out this morning from a friend that a bunch of my emails were stolen and are available publicly, online, in a Yahoo group. Ugh. Any thoughts on what I can do about this, other than contacting Yahoo security (already did) and filing a police report

Re: [liberationtech] Please Help Netroots Blogger Lowell Feld

2013-03-07 Thread Julian Oliver
Hi, I wouldn't advise trying to hack into Yahoo's data center. Looking to recruit to do this on a publicly readable list isn't super sane either. I don't think anything can be done about it, without risking jail time, especially now that Lowell's intent is out of the bag.

Re: [liberationtech] Can HAM radio be used for communication between health workers in rural areas with no cell connectivity?

2013-03-07 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/06/2013 05:41 PM, Sky (Jim Schuyler) wrote: The Byzantium Project folks (wi-fi mesh) have some amateur operators among their numbers and might also have opinions on how easy it is to We do. get folks licensed, and also on edge connections

Re: [liberationtech] Can HAM radio be used for communication between health workers in rural areas with no cell connectivity?

2013-03-07 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/07/2013 03:02 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: The whole ham culture and liberation technologies do not really mix. Unfortunately, this has been my experience as well. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium:

Re: [liberationtech] Spanish ListServ

2013-03-07 Thread Robert Guerra
Though welcome, I think it is a bit premature If there's one lesson learned from this list is that it is worth trying to consult everyone before taking an initiative such as forking the list. I would have asked the people involved and those at Stanford to see if they are willing to help.

Re: [liberationtech] Spanish ListServ

2013-03-07 Thread Mike Rispoli
Sandra - I'd also like to point you to our RedLatAm list, which may be of interest to you. redla...@lists.accessnow.org https://lists.accessnow.org/listinfo/redlatam Thanks! On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Sandra ordonez sandratordo...@gmail.comwrote: I've created a Spanish listserve on

Re: [liberationtech] Can HAM radio be used for communication between health workers in rural areas with no cell connectivity?

2013-03-07 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hea Doctor, On 7 Mar 2013, at 16:38, The Doctor wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/07/2013 03:02 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: The whole ham culture and liberation technologies do not really mix. Unfortunately, this

Re: [liberationtech] Can HAM radio be used for communication between health workers in rural areas with no cell connectivity?

2013-03-07 Thread Carlo Cosmatos
They exist a lot of digital modes used by the amateur radio operators, but the speeds are very low, from 31,25 baud to 64bps for the traditional modes. (PSK, MFSK, PACTOR, RTTY are mostly used, obviously for chatting, while the APRS is mainly used for the identification and localization of a

Re: [liberationtech] Can HAM radio be used for communication between health workers in rural areas with no cell connectivity?

2013-03-07 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Eugen, On 7 Mar 2013, at 08:02, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 09:36:41PM +, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb wrote: I have one answer: Amateur radio. Forget mobile phone networks. Amateur radio is cheap, very durable and will

Re: [liberationtech] Hispanohablantes / Spanish-Speaking LibTech Community

2013-03-07 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 03/07/2013 05:12 PM, Yosem Companys wrote: The list is not at Stanford. It's at OTP. *** Liberationtech is at Stanford, isn't it? == hk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -

Re: [liberationtech] Hispanohablantes / Spanish-Speaking LibTech Community

2013-03-07 Thread Yosem Companys
Liberationtech is. But Sandra, who started the list, is at OTP. On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 12:17 PM, hellekin helle...@cepheide.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 03/07/2013 05:12 PM, Yosem Companys wrote: The list is not at Stanford. It's at OTP. ***

Re: [liberationtech] Spanish ListServ

2013-03-07 Thread Yosem Companys
Sandra, What's the OpenITP list address? Yosem On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Sandra ordonez sandratordo...@gmail.com wrote: I've created a Spanish listserve on OpenITP. If you are interested, please email me your details to sandraordo...@openitp.org -- He creado una lista para

[liberationtech] Can HAM radio be used for communication between health workers in rural areas with no cell connectivity?

2013-03-07 Thread Erich M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/07/2013 07:31 PM, Sky (Jim Schuyler) wrote: Nice, Erich. In a sense, radio waves are the -ultimate- in liberation, crossing national boundaries in (single or multiple) bounds. That may be a subrosa reason governments fight so hard to

[liberationtech] Philanthrogeek at SXSW wants to tell your stories

2013-03-07 Thread Yosem Companys
From: Nathaniel James james.nathan...@gmail.com My brand new venture, Philanthrogeek.com, is sending a journalist to SXSW13 tell the stories of change makers and social innovators. In other words, your stories! Here's our post with all the details: