Hi, First a short introduction on myself: I have a masters degree in media arts and design from 2007 at the Bauhaus University of Weimar. I did my final thesis with Geert Lovink, Amsterdam and Ralf Homann from Weimar, the title of the work was "f.d.m.b.x. - the freedombox" ;)
At that time the TLDs for freedombox were taken by a software/hardware solution for blind people and so I took the TLD fdmbx as a short name. To sum up the content of my (still not translated to English) thesis, I come from the strong background of community wireless mesh networks, called Freifunk [1], and within years (starting in 2001) we had growing real world mesh networks when in the academia teachers still were saying, that meshing doesnt work as seen in the network simulators. At a certain point of time we interconnected the mesh networks of Berlin, Weimar, Leipzig and other cities via VPN and had more than 1000 nodes in one olsr [2] mesh, which was still not to much for the 200mhz mips routers (WRT54G at that time). So, what I called in my thesis the "infrastructure mesh" could be considered doable and "solved". Therefore I introduces a new term for my work, which I called "content mesh". The work itself was a mockup for a next generation Mesh node "on steroids": A device which is the datacenter of the owner, at home, being part of the local mesh cloud meanwhile connected to the world wide web, offering services in the local mesh as well to the outer world. I drafted some kind of "content mesh" aware apps, as a blog and a wiki which should be based on a DHT. The apps should be aware of their limited local storage and the potential instability of ad-hoc mesh networks, and therefore work on a store-forward approach with caching capabilities. The owner of such a node should be able to decide if she wants to store/cache content on and for physical neighbour nodes, friends' nodes or any other kind of structure. Further I designed a physical device which is very far from what we know as routers, to attracked even fans of gadget hardware. So that not only the local independent network, plus the local hosting, plus the content meshed possibilities, but on top the device itself attrackts people to join. See the years old work, translation in progress at my site: http://fdmbx.net We were motivated to such a project as the 'colored' revolutions in the former sovjet states were just going on, the same momentum as I see atm for the recent freedombox project with the actual political happenings. Sadly, I focused to much on hardware and production issues and as a single person I realised quickly, that producing such a freedombox is beyond my capabilities, moneywise an more. So, besides testing sheeva plugs and other hardware for different purposes I did not really push my original freedombox much further. I am very happy to see so many people jumping on the whole idea recently!! I am reading this list since a couple of weeks, and will anser to certain thread from now on :) best, kloschi, from leipzig, germany, earth, milky way [1] http://freifunk.net [2] http://olsr.org -- "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. " -- Ray Bradbury
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