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The list will serve as a discussion ground for the
deployment and use of a open mesh network for people
in Mumbai to use. The primary objective is to build a
local rich data functioning municipal area wireless
mesh network open to all, with arms-length punctuated
Internet access a future possibility.
Anyone willing to either help build the network, using
known mesh technology and community owned and run
hardware, or to build projects (art, games,
catalogues, collaborative performances etc) that will
showcase network capabilities, or to research open
technologies to optimally strengthen the network, or
to research and develop new technology layers on the
network, or to collectively build or provide access to
storage layers to power data resources, or *anything*
not covered in the previous descriptions but have the
possibility of growing value for all, please do join
in and let's get the ball rolling.
fyi the first mesh node was built by LUGgers at HBCSE
last month, and this list has grown out of the
person-to-person discussions following that, to look
for ways to bring this technology to bear for this
*urban* area. Aside from Nagarjuna and myself, artists
and educators and techie enthusiasts are coming
together in the hope that more such efforts will
catalyse the Mumbai mesh into self-sustaining growth.
The practical functioning of the mesh will depend on
and grow together from many community level networks
in discrete but contiguous parts of the city. As far
as the technology goes, we look for expertise (now and
in the future) in antenna construction, hardware
refabrication, OLSR, streaming, data cacheing and
database management, content management and many more.
We are lucky that listmembers here live in wide-spread
areas of the city, and hope they will use the
preliminary workshops and events conceptualised and
being planned, to learn and to teach others to build
out from there.
Welcome.
Vickram
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