25 Sep
2013
25 Sep
'13
3:03 a.m.
Mitar and all,
The idea with meshthepla.net is to create a campaign site that is agnostic
toward any particular network. Freifunk.net by and large points to and
promotes itself, which is really all the argument needed.
Also, I'm intending to use the site for documenting the workshop I'll be
leading at the wireless summit, one output of which is a global community
asset map of free networks and a communications framework for continuing
the conversation. :)
I do like the Freifunk site a lot and am hoping I can grok more of it after
spending a few weeks immersed in German!
On Sep 25, 2013 6:53 AM, "Mitar" <mitar(a)tnode.com> wrote:
Hi!
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As far as global directories, I don't see any
reason for freifunk to be
the
only front end for all this open data - in part
because "freifunk" is a
much better name for german speakers than for everyone else. As long as
we
are dealing with open data and open source, it
shouldn't be a problem for
motivated folks to throw up their own translated/localized version,
experiment with visualizations, etc. if they want to
Yes. So providing your own interface to the same API is probably
reasonable. But I got a feeling that Marc was arguing for doing some
other API and another directory?
Of course another idea could be that we just translate freifunk.net
webpage, point meshtheplanet.net to that site and make so that when it
is visited through meshtheplanet.net, an English version (with whatever
logo) appears. And if we want some additional feature, we extend current
website with it and both freifunk.net and meshtheplanet.net then have
it. This is open source as well. Don't fork if not necessary. Have you
tried to contribute to freifunk.net? Was it proven to be impossible?
That they didn't accept your contributions with your translations and
visualizations? If not, why fork?
Mitar
--mark B.
On Sep 24, 2013 6:47 PM, "Mitar" <mitar(a)tnode.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> That site is completely freifunk-specific.
>
> Because it is starting from there.
>
> I am probably biased though. :-) But in the past they had already a nice
> planet (blog aggregator) and I know few networks (including wlan
> slovenija) who were part of that. So I don't have a feeling it is just
> freifunk specific.
>
>> Site appears to be in german only.
>
> Currently. This is called international diversity. :-)
>
>> No easy way to add your own community to the mesh (need to use an
>> api).
>
> Pull request against:
>
>
>
https://github.com/freifunk/api.freifunk.net/blob/master/directory/director…
>
> What is easier?
>
>> No info on the different meshes except for a link.
>
> Have you checked the schema?
>
> https://github.com/freifunk/api.freifunk.net/blob/master/specs/0.1.json
>
> And of course, schema can be worked on by communities.
>
>> This does not even seem to be an attempt at a global community site.
>
> Interesting, I got a feeling that they are trying to be. They were eager
> to translate into English the GitHub README, once I told them that this
> would help others. :-)
>
>> Yeah, but maybe forking hackerspaces.org would be better.
>
> As you want. I am just saying that some people are already working on
> that and that it is really hard to maintain such lists. I know because I
> tried one:
>
> http://interop.wlan-si.net/
>
> There is then simply:
>
>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wireless_community_networks_by_region
Which was viewed by many as good enough.
And now freifunk is trying to improve on situation. So making a site
which uses the same API and same directory is probably reasonable. But
doing one new directory is probably not. Because the question is who
will maintain that directory.
Mitar
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