[DisasterRadio] Mozilla WINS Round 2 submission due Friday!

[John Fitz]

Sure, I have one working solar powered prototype and I should be able to
build a second one. I'll bring them into hardware hacking tomorrow. Maybe
we could set them up somewhere too.

On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 12:21 PM, Jenny Ryan <tunabananas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Allo friends,
>
> As you may or may not know, the deadline for Round 2 submissions is this
> Friday!
>
> A draft gDoc with the questions (which are much the same as Round 1) is
> here:
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bp0CYUSzWEVt3xMusEQjQRvuCiciB
> sW6-gqYRw1VgZ4/edit
>
> I think DisasterRadio has a really good shot. Here's a look at the Round 1
> winners (some of which I'm genuinely shocked won anything):
> * Project Lantern <http://lantern.works/docs/apps.html> - first place -
> has amazing design docs but no link to Github repo
> <https://github.com/lantern-works> (which is very recently active, also
> recently created, also only 1-2 contributers). might wanna incorporate some
> of the kinds of things they show here eg; use cases and app previews
> * HERMES <https://github.com/DigitalHERMES> - second place - Rhizomatica
> - active codebase, could be a contender, certainly has an excellent team -
> doesn't have a super open source feel (no link to Github on their homepage,
> for example)
> * Emergency LTE - 3rd place - can't find any website, code, specs, etc
> * goTenna <https://imeshyou.com/> - honorable mention - has an impressive
> map, but nothing about the project is open source
> * Wind <https://guardianproject.info/wind/> - honorable mention - project
> by Guardian Project - no Github activity in months
> * RAVE <https://github.com/commotionwireless/rave> - honorable mention -
> project by Commotion - Github has nothing in it and last commit was in
> November
> * Baculus <https://xn--f87c.net/> - honorable mention - still only a
> design doc, same with the Github repo <https://github.com/jedahan/baculus>
> (and 1 contributer)
> * Portable Cell Initiative
> <https://github.com/Ironarcher/portable-cell-initiative> - honorable
> mention - recent github activity but also 1 contributer
> * Othernet <http://blog.othernet.xyz/index.php/Timeline> - they at least
> have a wiki and a team :D looks interesting, tho not a whole lot of
> progress
> <http://blog.othernet.xyz/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&days=30&from=>
> they did use half the funds to train 4 high school students
> <http://othernet.xyz/othernet-engineer/>
>
> Butofcourse, there will be 35 other projects contending that were advanced
> to Round 2...
>
> Compare to our progress <https://disaster.radio/updates/> (excellent
> updates juul!) most demonstrable by looking at the github history
> <https://github.com/sudomesh/disaster-radio/commits/master>, as is the
> actual-collaborative
> <https://github.com/sudomesh/disaster-radio/graphs/contributors> nature
> of the project :)
>
> Could we document the working prototype this week? I am available to run
> between, say Captain Morgan's and Omni with a camera... and do some editing
> work on the submission (tho focus for me is more on the People's Open
> submission). Could also edit a short video with the footage Marc's already
> taken.
>
> If anyone has the spoons to hack on this this week, plz reply to this
> thread!
>
> <3
> Jenny
>
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