FWIW some people that hang around Telecomix might also be interested in collaboration on stuff outside of just regular Byzantium. I also know that there are some people doing space stuff that we can reach out to, via the DARPA funding for hackerspaces and Space. I think that Byzantium is a very cool subproject that loops into a whole slew of mesh networking projects that can build an ecosystem of communication gear that can be put together in a hurry. I think that the community might be reaching critical mass where we start to integrate all this stuff. As an aside, it blew my mind that for $20k you could build a blue force/situational awareness system for a 20 kilometer radius using mesh networking. Byzantium should really look at integrating serval-maps project, as it can do some really cool stuff with mapping. Andrew On Aug 18, 2012, at 3:00 AM, haxwithaxe <me@haxwithaxe.net> wrote:

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Greetings all,

As a security and defence scholar, with an interest in technology and emergency management, I'm glad I've stumbled across this project.(thank you Reddit and Ars Technica, I think). I've been searching for an adaptable mesh networking application for quite some time and haven't found anything robust and cost-effective (read: cheap/free) until now. Happy to see something like this being pushed out.

On 08/18/2012 12:51 AM, Crate8 wrote: thanks we're glad to be pushing it :P

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Tossing the idea around in my noodle brought up an idea of loading this kind of software onto a constellation of tiny cubesats (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CubeSat) in orbit, offering potentially global coverage. While I recognize that this is not the specific aim of the Byzantium Project, I can't help but think that with ground-based high-gain Wi-Fi antennas pointed to the sky, such a system would be wonderful. Not to mention access in the event of disaster in seriously remote areas. i like the idea }:P i was gonna put something here about power required to get to space but then i read this :P http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/19/venezuelans-set-new-wifi-distance-record-...

i'm not familiar enough to know whether tracking would be an issue but that might be something to consider since getting geosyncronous orbit for cubesats is pricey (compared to polar orbit).

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I'll give a look-see into the project documentation, etc. I'm particularly interested to see how handing off is accomplished when a mobile user moves out of the range of one node and into another... for the different protocols we use they might be different but the one we use by default is babeld and i think it just waits for it to not respond to the mesh protocol traffic and then drops it from the routing table.

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Any side-threads dedicated to long-term potential of this distro? I'm not much of a coder (mostly hobbyist Java stuff :P) but I'm creative and determined and would love to lend any hand I can to improving this project. testing (including light security audits) are very useful at this point, as are translations and documentation writing/editing.

haxwithaxe

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