This would be nice and the back-end .torrent file creation and manipulations
would be a breeze considering that a good number LUGgers already have access
to some form of Internet access where they can get the ISOs.
What I see as an issue is how to centrally access, manage and allow LUGgers
and the rest of the community to benefit from FLOSS; in its true sense.
A colleague once mentioned Community Networks. The idea is that interested
parties access a Wireless NIC and a re-used Router, with a locally made
(and/or omni) directional mast. Since most people already have access to a
PC at home with a local variant of their FLOSS, the wireless points would be
setup to peer all the information that one would be happy to share. This
might be a first step in justifying and enabling the need for improved IXP
service; since most guys cry about the lack of local content as a "speed
governor" to a more efficient IXP.
This setup initially eliminates the need for any one party to invest heavily
into the system and then get disappointed by the lack of "break-even"
interest. All U need is to set yourself up (for less than 500K), advertise
the content U have and let other interested parties decide whether to link
up. More the connections should translate into 'faster' downloads.
If taken up, this could truly change the face of ICT access and FLOSS
development in UG, without any 'Global Fund' mess :) if the gov't
(non-beneficiary) got involved.
For further reading,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_community_network,
http://www.scn.org/commnet/index.html, http://freenetworks.org/,
http://cuwin.net/
FRANCIS.
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Reinier Battenberg writes:
That should be possible:
http://www.blogtorrent.com/
On Friday 19 October 2007 18:31:21 Peter C. Ndikuwera wrote:
A better way to do it would be to set up a Ugandan bittorrent tracker, then
the first person to receive the ISO's would create a new .torrent file,
register torrent on above tracker and post said file to
LUG. Then we'd all be using that tracker and peering to/from one another.
Do I know too much about bittorrent? I plead the 5th. :-)
(Does Uganda's constitution even have anything close to the US 5th
amendment?)
On 19/10/2007, Reinier Battenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>
> I was hoping that bittorrent would help in tackling that issue by having
> all
> ugandan peers download a little bit (or a chunk) of the .iso's and then
> share
> it through our local connections.
>
> Indeed my bittorrent shows me i am downloading from US and european peers,
> and
> also uploading to them, which was not really my intention.
>
> If the .iso's arrive, i could take cd's to the /. party next week.
>
>
>
> rgds,
> reinier
>
> On Thursday 18 October 2007 19:35:13 Hari Kurup wrote:
> > abundant
>
>
>
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