On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 7:27 PM, George Patterson <george.patter...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 22 May 2012 18:59, Adrian Colomitchi <acolomit...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> See: http://wiki.freesoftware.asn.au/AustralianFreeSoftwareProjects - >> not that many IMHO. >> > > You would need to identify why the list is so short first. How many > Australia open source software authors know about it I don't know how many. By the number of entries, I suspect not too many of them. Which leads me to think that the "FOSS national identity" is a topic that worth discussing: - if deemed important, probably we would see more efforts to create awareness of the list existence - if deemed not (so) important, the fact the list is short is not a problem.
> and if they do, why isn't it listed there? Well, the way I see: it's a *Wiki*, so if they know about it it should be easy to add their projects. I don't know if adding/editing that page is restricted, I suspect it is not > > A promising big one is the Serval project http://www.servalproject.org/ > A short run down, it's a application that allows phone calls to be > made (or even sending text messages) via mesh networking where theres > limited infrastructure. Think after a natural disater and the phone > exchange has water flowing through it. If you spot something that > needs attention such as a broken pipeline or landslide, you can upload > the photo to the "Rhizome" and it will migrate via mesh connected > phones untill it gets to someone to that can either address it or get > a message to the outside world. The sender and receiver do not need to > be online at the same time. Sounds quite good. > Serval is being developed at Flinders University. Can you ask them to attempt adding the project to the list *if interested*? Or, if you are a contributor yourself, can *you* try to add it? Adrian _______________________________________________ Free-software-melb mailing list Free-software-melb@lists.softwarefreedom.com.au http://lists.softwarefreedom.com.au/mailman/listinfo/free-software-melb
