Re: [liberationtech] bulk sms

2015-01-02 Thread Chris Csikszentmihalyi
It's up to Richard to help us to help him at this point, like by describing what bulk means. A raspi with a gsm modem yields only a few texts per minute, typically, and will cost extra to place sms out-of-network with only one brand of sim. At least with Nathan's option you can use multi-sim

Re: [liberationtech] bulk sms

2015-01-02 Thread ITechGeek
Instead of using an Android gateway, I would go w/ a Raspberry Pi, probably a little easier for customized development (and you can use this as a starter): http://www.raspberrypi.org/raspberry-pi-gsm-gateway/ (Note this guy's configuration violates most carriers TOS). Also if you decide to go

Re: [liberationtech] bulk sms

2015-01-02 Thread Sky (Jim Schuyler)
Oops, I believe we experienced 10 outbound SMS per minute, not per second. Whichever it was, it was a barrier for our application. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Sky (Jim Schuyler, PhD) —The future has arrived, and

[liberationtech] 2015 is the Year of Bore-Sec

2015-01-02 Thread Nathan of Guardian
In the last few months, the Guardian Project team has been thinking about how to approach the next five years of our work. An idea of “security so easy and seamless, that it is boring” came to the surface through some discussions. This led us to look for inspiration in important inventions and

Re: [liberationtech] bulk sms

2015-01-02 Thread Nathan of Guardian
On Thu, Jan 1, 2015, at 12:58 PM, Nathan of Guardian wrote: On Thu, Jan 1, 2015, at 11:41 AM, Richard Brooks wrote: Anyone willing to share experiences on setting up (or using) an Internet to SMS interface... What about using an Android phone as the gateway device/SMS sender? There

Re: [liberationtech] bulk sms

2015-01-02 Thread Charles Haynes
I worked on a project in Uganda for using bulk sms via multiple carriers as a communication channel for local (mostly young) people to give feedback. Where is your application? Who are your users? What kind of volumes are you talking about? Have you looked at Vumi?