Hello Julian, Well I updated NodeDB today with an additional thing that didn't appear here, the option to opensource your data, by giving explicit permission to export to 3rd parties, this is intended for other community (not commercial) groups to do node projects, or integrating data into their websites etc, how this will work and who will get access is still to be determined as it could potentially effect a lot of people in a lot of ways I'm after suggestions on this...
the 3 options given are no access, partial and full, none and full should be obvious, where as what do you draw the line at on partial... PS if anyone knows any commercial operators and are willing to let them know about the changes then that could get the ball rolling... -- Best regards, evilbunny mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cacert.org - Free Security Certificates http://www.nodedb.com - Think globally, network locally http://www.sydneywireless.com - Telecommunications Freedom Sunday, November 24, 2002, 8:18:04 PM, you wrote: JB> evilbunny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Adding a drop down for community/commercial has been on the books for >>me, just hadn't had a high priority, then people can filter which they >>see... first and foremost community comes first but I see no harm if >>we can filter and allow commercial sites as well, as long as they are >>clearly marked as such, perhaps not everyone will agree with me, but I >>get way way way too many questions about where can I get net access >>when I'm holiday in xyz city... JB> Exactly. And I'd strongly recommend including the commercial sites with JB> a flag and a link to the commercial organization providing the access. >>Perhaps that's another option needed... supply internet access, as not >>all community access point do... JB> Again, absolutely. The big reason for querying the database is the one JB> you give. "I find myself here, where's the nearest WiFi point where I JB> can get myself online." Where online means check my email and surf the JB> web. People interested in the various community efforts who are JB> experimenting with parallel internets will probably find each other JB> without needing to search nodedb. JB> Would it help to have someone trawl the commercial sites, extract their JB> node data and enter it into nodedb? Sending emails to their CRM depts to JB> try and get *them* to do it, is likely to fail ;-( JB> BTW. This reminds me of the Syndic8.com project to document every RSS JB> newsfeed. That got a big boost by two or three people spending the time JB> to track down and enter the first 5000 entries. Make it easy for people JB> to do the mass upload and people will probably come out of the woodwork JB> to help.
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