Another thought: Speaking at the CCC Conference gave Freenet visibility. Maybe we can get materials ready to have a talk about Netsukuku at one of these conferences?
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Michael Grube <[email protected]>wrote: > Luca, that is a really good idea! > > How do we raise money? I can use some of my own money for a few dreamplugs > but we'll need more money. Anybody? > > > > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Luca Dionisi <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Michael Grube <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > The problem with this is that the readership involved with Slashdot and >> > Boing Boing typically want some kind of working product to get excited >> about >> > first. It is a lot like advertising unfortunately. >> > >> > Of course if you have ideas for how we can do this without already >> having >> > some kind of flashy, sexy demonstration(or at least a video for >> everybody to >> > watch) please share them! >> >> You want a video? We could arrange something like that: >> >> 1. Raise money. Buy tens of dreamplug[1] at 149$ each. >> 2. Compile Stackless on one of those. It should be doable, though I >> never tried. Install netsukuku on them. >> 3. Deploy those plug computers in houses to form a quite wide mesh. I >> am curious about the range you can cover with the radio chip built in >> them, especially when passing several walls. >> 4. Make a connection of some sort between very distant end nodes. The >> end points could be laptops, instead of plug computers. >> 5. Surf the Internet from a laptop connected to any one of the plug >> computers. >> 6. Make a professional video describing the deploy and the results. >> 7. Profit. >> >> Since I do not know for sure that stackless will work on a ARM (there >> is a bit of assembly language to take into account) I recommend this >> test as step 0. >> >> >> [1] >> http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/dreamplug-puts-a-1-2ghz-arm-pc-in-a-power-outlet-2011022/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Netsukuku mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.dyne.org/mailman/listinfo/netsukuku >> > >
_______________________________________________ Netsukuku mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dyne.org/mailman/listinfo/netsukuku
