Hi people, there's a lot of buzz these days around the FreedomBox[1], a project proposed by Eben Moglen. The box is supposed to come as an appliance for people to hook on their local network, and build a mesh networking on top of the Internet. As such it's a bit different from Netsukuku, but the box still being in the brainstorming phase, Netsukuku could as well become part of it, or rather expand the vision.
The code repository[2] doesn't show much activity in the last year, but the codebase of openwrt did evolve in the meantime. I'm pretty sure alpt and other committers could bring fresher news to the mailing-list. One of the major issue, as I understand it, is a common disease in many disruptive free software: a lack of resources for the project, that forces developers out of it. I would also appreciate a heads-up from the developers, especially to identify and characterize the show-stoppers: that would help people willing to participate to understand better how they can jump in. Sometimes it's not as simple as reading the code and writing some. Wikipedia mentions more than 70 competing schemes for routing packets across mesh networks[3]. So indeed, there's a need to update our referentials to get the grip on where Netsukuku stands among this effervescence. Maybe it would be interesting also to propose Netsukuku as a competing project for the upcoming ContactCon[4] in NYC next month. Cheers, == hk [1] http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/ [2] http://dev.hinezumi.org/browser/netsukuku/trunk [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_mesh_network [4] http://contactcon.com/ _______________________________________________ Netsukuku mailing list Netsukuku@lists.dyne.org http://lists.dyne.org/mailman/listinfo/netsukuku
