I must say, the more I study their site http://wiki.villagetelco.org , the more I get excited. To turn this into the practical will take some thinking caps.
The Mesh Potato is the present day state of the art, and I am anxious to get started tinkering. The price tag for small quantities is $119, table rate shipping $27.?? qty 5 - $595 plus 57.70 shipping high qty, 3000 or more? I could not afford more than one for now. They say it comes with European adaptor, so you would have to buy one for here. (or North American plug at least) Making our own is an option, after all it is open hardware. Lot of work mind you. Start up costs? Convincing a firm they can make money making open hardware? The answer is yes, of course. I am also pondering the possibility of grant money? After all, it is supposed to stimulate the economy. In SA, they were surprised when it was the rich who were the first on board. Marketing worked on a social basis (friends had to have what their friends had). If you have not done it yet, have a look at their short front page add. Very succinct (and cool-:). Village Telco Explainer 1:14 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S30M_nigtcs&feature=player_embedded Calgary is the right Canadian City to Pilot this. Can you visualize the look and feel of our version of mesh potato? On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 14:20 -0600, Gustin Johnson wrote: > I am also interested. One problem is that the handful of people who > 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 > 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 deeoer 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 > > proprietary 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. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > clug-talk@clug.ca > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
