It seems like they're referring to diaspora installations.

Eben Moglen's http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/ project is, among other 
things, focusing on mesh routing.

I also like the pirate box http://wiki.daviddarts.com/PirateBox for ad hoc 
networks - I'm sure it would be super easy to rethink it as a connected project.

(by the way Danny - if you're at Hampshire we really should get together up at 
UMass I've got lots of support from OIT for Free Culture and we could totally 
do a workshop on how to build these - as long as we didn't frame it as "how to 
pirate stuff")

Distributed networking has gotten a lot of attention lately with all the net 
neutrality and "kill switch" controversy. Of course, I adamantly support 
anything that can redistribute determinant structures :)

Zach McDowell
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Communication
University of Massachusetts Amherst






On Apr 7, 2011, at 6:44 PM, sarvōdaya wrote:

> It looks interesting, and i hope it goes somewhere. It would be awesome to 
> have a wifi mesh network on every college campus for file sharing (to start). 
> 
> Maybe this map will be useful as well: http://darknetmap.zone42.ca/
> 
> This is the website for the grinnell folks: http://freenetworkmovement.org
> 
> I see manifesto looking stuff, but no software or code
> 
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 08:38, Alec Story <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was reading the list of changes to the new kernel (2.6.38) and saw this:
> 1.6. B.A.T.M.A.N. Mesh protocol
> 
> B.A.T.M.A.N. is an alias for "Better Approach To Mobile Adhoc Networking". An 
> ad hoc network is a decentralized network that does not rely on a preexisting 
> infrastructure, such as routers in wired networks or access points in managed 
> (infrastructure) wireless networks. Instead, each node participates in 
> routing by forwarding data for other nodes, and so the determination of which 
> nodes forward data is made dynamically based on the network connectivity. 
> B.A.T.M.A.N. is a routing protocol implementation ot these networks. 
> B.A.T.M.A.N is useful for emergency situations like natural disasters, 
> military conflicts or Internet censorship. More information about this 
> project can be found at http://www.open-mesh.org/
> 
>  
> Does this relate at all to what the folks at the conference from Grinnell 
> were doing?
>  
> -- 
> Alec Story
> Cornell University
> Biological Sciences, Computer Science 2012
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