Just so everyone knows about the existence of everyone else, here's a posting to the Byzantium list that might prove interesting to someone:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sascha Meinrath <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 6:28 AM Subject: Re: [HacDC:Byzantium] DC Open Mesh Network? To: [email protected] Cc: Preston Rhea <[email protected]>, Josh Breitbart <[email protected]>, Josh King <[email protected]> Hi all, Just wanted to let you know that we've begun deploying Commotion nodes (see: https://tech.chambana.net/projects/commotion) around DC and should be greatly expanding that network over the next few months. This local deployment complements the networks we have in Detroit, Urbana, and (soon) Philadelphia. Folks have been heading out fairly regularly to scout locations and deploy nodes -- if folks are interested, I've cc-ed Preston Rhea from my team, who is heading up logistics coordination for the DC installations. I'm hoping that several folks from the Open Technology Initiative will be able to make this month's Byzantium hack, in the interim, we'd be happy to work with folks who were interested in deploying networks and learning the ropes for outdoor installations. --Sascha Meinrath Director, Open Technology Initiative Founder, Commotion Wireless Project New America Foundation *** Topic: DC Open Mesh Network? psypete <[email protected]> Oct 11 10:45AM -0400 ^ I know it's still early in the game for this, but i'm really really excited about starting to build real nodes within DC and bypass the internet completely. I was thinking about node types, and someone mentioned plug computers which are cheap and simple to set up - great idea. There's also the $25 Raspberry Pi which you can add a USB wifi dongle to. Also HacDC has a drawer full of OLPC lappies which are designed to become a mesh network. I have a couple laptops I can deploy. OpenWRT is another good node type (once we get to that stage of the project) As far as getting link, I live in Petworth. This should work for me in relation to HacDC because i'm at a higher elevation, thus it may be possible to set up a directional link between the church and my house. A second option is to use the layout of the city to our benefit. Most major roads are in straight lines and have a slight elevation change, so pointing a link down the road with nodes every mile or two might be a simple way to link up more of the city. Assuming the power goes out again in major parts of the city during winter this would be a great test of the network and get people online for a couple hours a day until their internets come back. Eventually it would be useful to have client software for regular computers which would bundle the routing protocols and core services so turn-key mesh nodes could be turned up without requiring Linux to boot. Is this a future goal? I researched it a bit and a large amount of the code/apps has already been written as PoCs by research institutions. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Byzantium (Emergency Mesh Networking)" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/a/hacdc.org/group/Byzantium/?hl=en. _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
