I hope this is appropriate to post and of possible interest.
The Internet Society (I'm a member of the local chapter) offers various
online courses.
The latest is "Building Community Mesh Networks" :
http://inforum.internetsociety.org/LMS/Portal.aspx?tabindex=0
The course was developed by IEEE and ISOC.
Many of the course participants are IEEE SIGHT, IEEE Smart Village and HAM
radio folks.
It is an open course but requires an ISOC membership login (free =>
internetsociety.org)
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There's an online registration form with instructions.
The course is self directed but has a six week completion timeline.
Space is limited - sorry for late notice but I got a late start on it
myself.
I think after the course is over it will be kept online.
A friend of mine is involved in a project to provide low cost weather
forecasting and emergency communications in the Marshall Islands. He was
asking me about various ham radio protocols like AX.25 and it occurred to
me that a mesh network using WiFi radios might be a better solution that
could provide general Internet access for a similar or even lower cost.
The stations would need to be able to operate in remote. unattended
locations with only solar power. I am thinking that each island could have
one or more "central" sites with long distance links to one or two (or
more) other islands, and then a local network that would be used to
communicate locally on that island.
I'm still gathering more info about distances and elevations of the
islands, and whether line of site communications is possible.
Can anyone think of reasons why this would or would not be a good way to do
things?
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-steve
I am planning to be there. Wanna make it a group outing?
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are interested in wireless mesh network technologies and community
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This Tuesday at 7:30 pm we'll be getting a visit from Stephen Seymour from
San Bruno Now.
San Bruno is in the interesting and unusual situation that it owns its own
internet infrastructure and ISP. My understanding is that San Bruno Now is
a community project being headed up by Stephen to improve San Bruno, in
small ways in the short term, with some success already, but with a grander
long term vision of re-invigorating the city and attracting artists,
researchers and new energy.
There may be an opportunity for collaboration between the citizens of San
Bruno and People's Open Network here.
There is more to it but I'll let Stephen explain.
I was connected to Stephen by San Bruno resident Yosem Companys who some of
you may know as the long-time maintainer of the LiberationTech mailing list.
If you want to hear what Stephen has to say then you should attempt to be
at sudo room at 7:30 pm sharp, otherwise you can read the meeting notes at
your leisure.
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marc/juul
Just thinking - since we now have a large inventory of nodes, maybe we could set up a demo mesh network for the workshop, something that lets people see the mesh working in real-time?
We probably don’t have time to develop a visual front-end, but could probably do something interesting with a few laptops running wireshark or some other monitoring tool.
Or, if nothing else, we could have a station where people can flash a node and connect it to the network to get a feel for how things work.
Thoughts?
(ps my nodes arrived the other day, so I’ll be bringing them by this afternoon)
Hey this is Andrew back up here on orcas.
Heres a couple links to what happened up here with creating a wifi source
for the island.
An article.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/
11/how-a-group-of-neighbors-created-their-own-internet-service/
And the website.
https://dbiua.org
He puts a lot of technical data too, probably tons of stuff to use.
Hi all,
Here’s my contribution to the flyer discussion - feel free to print and distribute!
I’ve also started a planning doc to coordinate everything for the workshop and make sure we’ve thought of all the details. It’s pretty skeletal right now, but I think it will be good to have all the planning info in one place: https://pad.riseup.net/p/byoi_program <https://pad.riseup.net/p/byoi_program>
Andy
I managed to get all the way through the lab; huzzah. (See the two issues
though.)
I used tshark instead of wireshark because I didn't want to install a gui,
but I think I saw what you wanted me to see.
Perhaps the next step is to interpret what I saw. We can talk about this
soon.
Thanks, Jorrit and Grant!
best,
Arthur
