Hello Thomas, Dave, Disaster preparedness is exactly the stimulus behind Serval Project came into being. It was following the Haiti earthquake that I sat down and thought never again should this happen. I couldn't stop the earthquakes, but I could stop communications being taken down whenever an earthquake strikes. My gut feeling is that phones will have a more important role to play in disaster mitigation than plug computers, but it is not a 100%/0% thing, and this is one of the reasons I am so keen that FB and Serval tech should interoperate.
On the state funding front, we have had some nibbles, but I think we will need to get a full prototype up before governments will be interested. They are rather risk averse, which does create some paradoxes when dealing with mitigating risks from disaster :/ Paul. On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Dave Crossland <[email protected]> wrote: > On 14 March 2011 01:51, Thomas Lord <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> We're interested in mesh networks. For earthquake preparedness." > > Sounds like an interesting way to get state funding... :-) > > _______________________________________________ > Freedombox-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss > _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
