yes as i side kick to the project i would love to host a node. and help install boxes get me five flashed routers and ill set em up weatherproof box
On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 11:45 PM, Yuval Adam <yuv....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey'all, > > I'd like to share some personal thoughts and hopes regarding Arig activity > during 2014. > There are several converging vectors that I believe are pointing to a real > need for the Arig network to begin bootstrapping itself, with a strong > emphasis on actual physical connections. > > Organizationally, there is lots of interest in Arig and the technology > empowering mesh networks. I see this both at TAMI when discussing > Arig/routers/networks, as well as in other contexts where people might have > heard of similar projects worldwide and wonder as to why a local initiative > hasn't taken place yet. > Politically, in post-#J14 times, there is a growing movement towards > opening cooperative and communal initiatives (e.g. Bar Kayma, 'Shelanu' > cooperative, South TLV organic coop, software coop, Ofek social bank, etc.) > and here again, some technically-inclined people have been sniffing around > Arig (including tangential technologies such as tactical communication > between android devices at mass-protests etc.) > > What I'm trying to point to is an actual demand from people to actively > participate in such a network (with obvious varying levels of technical > aptitude.) > > With that in mind, I can't help but feel we're slightly off-track with our > current efforts. > Most of the active Arig participants (myself included) come from a strong > technical background, and thus making it natural to navigate our activity > towards hard technical discussions and development. > All the while, it feels (to me, at least) that we need to be putting more > effort into deploying actual technology on the ground - even if it is > out-of-the-box and rough around the edges - such that we are in touch with > people who are interested in participating in the network, but lack the > knowledge or motivation to enter the core technical discussions. > It might be that case that in the end of day, we'll have more > participation and more motivation to continue the development we want to > see, but at a faster pace. > > Personally, I am gearing myself towards more on-the-ground activity in the > south TLV area (Jaffa, Florentin, Shapira) where there is lots of interest > in Arig and actual deployment of nodes with high probability of physical > connections. > > I believe that this is what we should be focusing on in the near future, > in order for Arig to successfully bootstrap. > > Please let me know if you feel the same or if I'm tx'ing on a completely > different channel :) > > Cheers, > - Yuval > > > _______________________________________________ > arig-discuss mailing list > arig-discuss@lists.subsignal.org > https://lists.subsignal.org/mailman/listinfo/arig-discuss > > -- yair99@gmail 050-6301212 tlv, israel
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