I'm curious:  why do you need to modify diaspora at all?  If you're
providing a normal IP stack, shouldn't it just work?

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Isaac Wilder <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Hey y'all,
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> I meant to respond ages ago. I'm glad this came back up. I'm Isaac
> from the Grinnell group that was at the conference. (Hi Alec!)
>
> Yes, we use BATMAN/adv in our mesh. It's not half bad, but there's
> definitely room for improvement on the mesh protocol front. We're also
> hacking Diaspora to work on grinnellMIND - every network needs a
> killer app.
>
> We don't have code of our own, but we contribute to global-scale
> open-source projects to suit our needs. I do hope you'll explore our
> wiki, though. In particular, take a look at our roadmap to network
> that is owned by the whole of humanity. It could use some work, but
> then, that's the whole point of a wiki!
>
> Here's the link:
>
> http://www.freenetworkmovement.org/commons/index.php?title=Freenet_Manifesto
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>
>
> take care,
> imw
>
>
> On 04/07/2011 05:44 PM, sarvōdaya wrote:
> > It looks interesting, and i hope it goes somewhere. It would be
> > awesome to have a wifi mesh network on every college campus for
> > file sharing (to start).
> >
> > Maybe this map will be useful as well:
> > http://darknetmap.zone42.ca/
> >
> > This is the website for the grinnell folks:
> > http://freenetworkmovement.org 
> > <http://freenetworkmovement.org/><http://freenetworkmovement.org/>
>
> >
> > I see manifesto looking stuff, but no software or code
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 08:38, Alec Story <[email protected]
> > <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> > I was reading the list of changes to the new kernel (2.6.38) and
> > saw this:
> >
> >
> > 1.6. B.A.T.M.A.N. Mesh protocol
> >
> > B.A.T.M.A.N. is an alias for "Better Approach To Mobile Adhoc
> > Networking". An ad hoc network is a decentralized network that does
> > not rely on a preexisting infrastructure, such as routers in wired
> > networks or access points in managed (infrastructure) wireless
> > networks. Instead, each node participates in routing by forwarding
> > data for other nodes, and so the determination of which nodes
> > forward data is made dynamically based on the network
> > connectivity. B.A.T.M.A.N. is a routing protocol implementation ot
> > these networks. B.A.T.M.A.N is useful for emergency situations like
> > natural disasters, military conflicts or Internet censorship. More
> > information about this project can be found at
> > http://www.open-mesh.org/
> >
> >
> > Does this relate at all to what the folks at the conference from
> > Grinnell were doing?
> >
> > -- Alec Story Cornell University Biological Sciences, Computer
> > Science 2012
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Alec Story
Cornell University
Biological Sciences, Computer Science 2012
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