Hi Gustin,

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Gustin Johnson <gus...@meganerd.ca> wrote:

> I am also interested.  One problem is that the handful of people who
>

I was thinking along the same lines, but in the interest of privacy, I am
thinking of another way to share geographic location, say at the meeting.
Unlikely we are all within meshing distance. Alternatively, if we could
think of a way to test with portable hardware in sort of close proximity...
Power would be the problem.
Aside from mesh potato like devices, Eben was suggesting some WiFi capable
smart phones could end up being already deployed hardware. But that;s ahead
of what we are talking about.

became interested as a result of the talk that Simon did were
> geographically distributed about Calgary, making any kind of test
> network beyond improbable.
>
> If we could string enough people together to accomplish this then I am
> interested.  It might also interest some of the folks at protospace as
>

I was hoping you would you would say that.


> well.
>
> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 2:05 PM,  <si...@mungewell.org> wrote:
> >
> >> http://www.linuxjournal.com/magazine/mesh-potato
> >>
> >> http://wiki.villagetelco.org/index.php?title=Mesh_Potato_HOWTOs
> >>
> >
> >> Anyone else interested into looking deeper into this stuff??
> >> Let me know.
> >>
> >
> > I gave a talk to CLUG about Mesh Wireless a few years ago, and even tried
> > to get some momentum on a project - so I guess you could say that I have
> > an interest in things like this ;-)
> >
> > MeshPotato is very interesting project as it couples the idea of VoIP
> into
> > a Mesh network for developing countries. One of it's principles is doing
> > work on a ultra low bandwidth (2400bps) Codec for voice comms, which I
> > also tinkered around with mainly for the idea of replacing D-Star (a
> > propriatory system used in HAM radio).
> >
> > As a side note it was interesting to see that BATMAN (a mesh protocol)
> was
> > adopted into the mainline kernel a couple of releases ago.
> >
> > Simon.
> >
> >
> >
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