an easy-to-use, scalable, standards-based, wireless, local, do-it-yourself, telephone company toolkit
Canadian researcher, Catherine Middleton, has published a paper entitled “Is it Good to Share? A Case Study of FON and Meraki Approaches to Broadband Provision.” It is available in PDF format and the presentation is also downloadable.
What FON and Meraki have in common is that they are both consumer-deployed infrastructure and both trade on the [...]
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 [...]
At the Shuttleworth Foundation, the geek factor runs pretty high for a charitable foundation. However, my colleague Jason and I felt like lightweights at the the Village Telco workshop that we hosted here at the Foundation two weeks ago.
You can see the full list of participants here or click here to put a [...]
This is an initiative to assemble/develop the cheapest, easiest to setup, easiest to manage, scalable, Open Source, standards-based, wireless local do-it-yourself telephone company toolkit in the world.
An empty shell at the moment. Please post a message if you would like to get involved.
