an easy-to-use, scalable, standards-based, wireless, local, do-it-yourself, telephone company toolkit
As part of the proof-of-concept work around the Mesh Potato, David and Elektra have more or less settled on the Atheros AR2317 chip as a likely candidate for the Mesh Potato. This is partly because it is a very affordable chip yet still has all the features needed for the Mesh Potato but also because [...]
I am childishly excited by the fact that the Village Telco actually has the first chunk of public code available in the form of a software build for OpenWRT running on an Ubiquity Nanostation 2. The source code is available via subversion on the Village Telco SourceForge site and Elektra has put instructions for [...]
Momentum is picking up with the Village Telco. Here’s an update on where we are:
The Mesh Potato
I’m very happy to say that the Shuttleworth Foundation has completed agreements with David Rowe and Elektra and that they are now hard at work on the production of a Mesh Potato proof-of-concept. David has just posted a fairly [...]
The Mesh Potato is a concept developed at the Village Telco workshop (June 16-20, 2008) at the Shuttleworth Foundation. The objective of the workshop was to try to develop a prototype of the Village Telco as well as to develop the business model. The discussion around the business model led to an interesting [...]
