The last few days I came across a few good causes that should get
+wider attention. I recommend signing and donating to each one of
+these. :)
+
+
Via Debian
+Project News for 2013-10-14 I came across the Outreach Program for
+Women program which is a Google Summer of Code like initiative to get
+more women involved in free software. One debian sponsor has offered
+to match any donation done to Debian
+earmarked for this initiative. I donated a few minutes ago, and
+hope you will to. :)
+
+
And the Electronic Frontier Foundation just announced plans to
+create video
+documentaries about the excessive spying on every Internet user that
+take place these days, and their need to fund the work. I've already
+donated. Are you next?
+
+
For my Norwegian audience, the organisation Studentenes og
+Akademikernes Internasjonale Hjelpefond is collecting signatures for a
+statement under the heading
+Bloggers United for Open
+Access for those of us asking for more focus on open access in the
+Norwegian government. So far 499 signatures. I hope you will sign it
+too.
@@ -67,7 +106,8 @@ reflect this fact, so the old project page can't be updated to point to
the new project. A while back, the people at Hackeriet invited people
from the Freifunk community to Oslo to talk about mesh networks. I
came across this video where Hans Jørgen Lysglimt interview the
-speakers about this talk:
+speakers about this talk (from
+youtube):
@@ -76,13 +116,14 @@ There are heaps of different protocols, and I am still struggling to
figure out which one would be "best" for some definitions of best, but
given that the community mesh group in Oslo is so small, I believe it
is best to hook up with the existing one instead of trying to create a
-completely different setup, and thus this have decided to focus on
+completely different setup, and thus I have decided to focus on
batman-adv for now. It sure help me to know that the very cool
Serval project in Australia
is using batman-adv as their meshing technology when it create a self
organizing and self healing telephony system for disaster areas and
less industrialized communities. Check out this cool video presenting
-that project:
+that project (from
+youtube):
@@ -93,7 +134,7 @@ packets across mesh networks, and OLSR, B.A.T.M.A.N. and
B.A.T.M.A.N. advanced are protocols used by several free software
based community mesh networks.
-The batman-adv protocol is a bit special, as it provide layer 2
+
The batman-adv protocol is a bit special, as it provide layer 2
(as in ethernet ) routing, allowing ipv4 and ipv6 to work on the same
network. One way to think about it is that it provide a mesh based
vlan you can bridge to or handle like any other vlan connected to your
@@ -103,13 +144,13 @@ least since Debian Wheezy, and it is fairly easy to set up. A
introduction is available from the Open Mesh project. These are
the key settings needed to join the Oslo meshfx network:
-
+
Setting
Value
Protocol / kernel module
batman-adv
ESSID
meshfx@hackeriet
Channel / Frequency
11 / 2462
Cell ID
02:BA:00:00:00:01
-
+
The reason for setting ad-hoc wifi Cell ID is to work around bugs
in firmware used in wifi card and wifi drivers. (See a nice post from
@@ -143,11 +184,17 @@ commercial companies, even though Telenor discovered that it was hard
to figure out a good business plan for mesh networking and as far as I
know have closed down the experiment. Perhaps Telenor or others would
be interested in a cooperation?
+
+
Update 2013-10-12: I was just
+told
+by the Serval project developers that they no longer use
+batman-adv (but are compatible with it), but their own crypto based
+mesh system.
It has been a while since my last update. Since last summer, I
-have worked on a Norwegian
-docbook version of the 2004 book
-Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig,
-to get a Norwegian text explaining the problems with the copyright
-law. Yesterday, I finally broken the 90% mark, when counting the
-number of strings to translate. Due to real life constraints, I have
-not had time to work on it since March, but when the summer broke out,
-I found time to work on it again. Still lots of work left, but the
-first draft is nearing completion. I created a graph to show the
-progress of the translation:
-
-
-
-
When the first draft is done, the translated text need to be
-proof read, and the remaining formatting problems with images and SVG
-drawings need to be fixed. There are probably also some index entries
-missing that need to be added. This can be done by comparing the
-index entries listed in the SiSU version of the book, or comparing the
-English docbook version with the paper version. Last, the colophon
-page with ISBN numbers etc need to be wrapped up before the release is
-done. I should also figure out how to get correct Norwegian sorting
-of the index pages. All docbook tools I have tried so far (xmlto,
-docbook-xsl, dblatex) get the order of symbols and the special
-Norwegian letters ÃÃÃ wrong.
-
-
There is still need for translators and people with docbook
-knowledge, to be able to get a good looking book (I still struggle
-with dblatex, xmlto and docbook-xsl) as well as to do the draft
-translation and proof reading. And I would like the figures to be
-redrawn as SVGs to make it easy to translate them. Any SVG master
-around? There are also some legal terms that are unfamiliar to me.
-If you want to help, please get in touch with me, and check out the
-project files currently available from
-github.
-
-
If you are curious what the translated book currently look like,
-the updated
-PDF
-and
-EPUB
-are published on github. The HTML version is published as well, but
-github hand it out with MIME type text/plain, confusing browsers, so I
-saw no point in linking to that version.
