[Mesh] My mesh project.

[mark burdett]

I'm not going to make it there at 8:30pm but if folks are meeting up ping
me on IRC and I could drop by a bit later :)
--mark B.
On Feb 6, 2013 5:42 PM, "Jenny Ryan" <tunabananas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Marc, I've switched to http://wiki.tidepools.co as I continue research
> for OTI, so will need to update the pyre wiki as we move forward. The mesh
> protocol/hardware/firmware etc research is in the Mesh Projects Directory
> link on the sidebar. :)
>
> I will be at sudo tomorrow since there's an Oakland Digital Divide mtg at
> 7 and will be meeting with Alcides beforehand. Mark, if you can't make it
> that's fine - I would love to hear Doctorow speak, myself! We'll see who
> shows up and go from there.
>
> As part of my internship with the Open Technology Institute, I'm designing
> use cases for a mobile mapping application designed to run on community
> mesh networks. While discussions of the technology that mesh runs on are
> interesting and pertinent, so too is the issue of community adoption and
> engagement. There's a whole world of possibilities for providing services
> beyond just connectivity to folks on the mesh -mapping community resources,
> neighborhood bulletin boards for local job listings and events, hooking up
> with sensor data from seismometers and Geiger counters, community crime
> watch, emergency response tools, etc;
>
> Excited to talk more with y'all tomorrow!
> On Feb 6, 2013 5:25 PM, "mark burdett" <mark at 510pen.org> wrote:
>
>> One of these days, hackers need to start boycotting proprietary broadcom
>> hardware - including raspberry pi!  otherwise we'll never arrive at the
>> open hardware future :)
>>
>> --mark B.
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Alcides Gutierrez <alcides888 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi. I bumped into the three protocols about the same time along my
>>> journey. Didnt really explore babel as much as the other two. Later noticed
>>> WDS and a roster of others, but like you implied, these three were most
>>> popular.
>>>
>>> I was trying to steer clear of DD-WRT for the reason you stated about
>>> open source. But OpenWrt seems to be at a standstill when it comes to
>>> Linksys e2000 because of Broadcom proprietary mumbo jumbo... ;)
>>>
>>> I thought about Tomatoes but that seems like a world of worlds... Im
>>> still trying to get adjusted to linux (debian flavors).
>>>
>>> Thanks for the link. I love links! :) I look forward to meeting folks.
>>>
>>> Alcides Gutierrez
>>> http://e64.us
>>> On Feb 6, 2013 5:02 PM, "Marc Juul" <marcjc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Alcides Gutierrez <alcides888 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > Nice. I did find out that both olsr and batman-adv are ongoing
>>>> efforts. I
>>>> > dropped by #batman on freenode and feel like batman-adv is a good
>>>> option for
>>>> > me to start with. Good to see that NG also uses batman. I have been
>>>> reading
>>>> > as many docs on batman to get up to speed.
>>>>
>>>> There are several other protocols out there. The main one I'm seeing
>>>> in use other than OLSR and batman-adv is Babel. Babel is apparently
>>>> really easy to work with. I asked the Project Byzantium people why
>>>> they chose it, and they said there was only one reason: simplicity of
>>>> deployment.
>>>>
>>>> Jenny and I have gathered some relevant facts about meshing protocols
>>>> here: http://thepyre.org/wiki/Mesh#Meshing_protocols_and_algorithms
>>>>
>>>> > Hoping different firmwares wont be a major issue if batman is the
>>>> common
>>>> > protocol. Im gonna test out DDwrt on my e2000 and OpenWrt on two
>>>> wndr3800's.
>>>> > See how traffic flows.
>>>>
>>>> Cool. Maybe you already know this, but DD-WRT is not really open
>>>> source / free software. There are add-in modules that they want you to
>>>> pay for, and it's apparently very difficult to compile from source. I
>>>> tried using it once, and ran into a showstopper when I realized
>>>> there's no way to disable console output on the primary serial port
>>>> (meaning you can't use it for anything else).
>>>>
>>>> > Im meeting with Jenny tomorrow at sudo aboit 530. I would enjoy
>>>> making it
>>>> > out every Thursday if there's a gathering. Basically, what I do
>>>> everyday
>>>> > with my free time is explore what I can with mesh networking.
>>>> > We can meet up next week if you like. Or if people wanna meet
>>>> tomorrow, Im
>>>> > cool with that too!
>>>>
>>>> I'm also ok either way.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Marc Juul
>>>>
>>>
>>
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