[wsfii-discuss] Dharamsala as venue for 2006

Wed Sep 7 08:08:57 UTC 2005

I just received this e-mail from Yahel Ben-David. He runs the mesh 
project in Dharamsala, and has invited us to hold our 2006 event there:

/tomas

> Hi Tomas,
>
>
> I truly think that Dharamsala would be a great place to host your event.
>
> We now have over 2000 !! computers connected to the mesh !
>
> We have 37 wireless nodes (16 are on a single large mesh - same channel).
>
> We cover a radius of over 50km ! (well it's only half a circle - as we 
> have high mountains on the other half).
>
>
> We are in the final phases of setting-up the TCV (Tibetan Children 
> Village) Technology Center.
>
> This would be a charitable organization which will distribute Internet 
> (and other including VoIP) services over the Mesh to the many 
> non-profit organizations in the area.
>
> We are giving jobs to Tibetan graduates and plan to manage the center 
> like a Western hi-tech company, CRM and all.
>
>
> We are now setting up offices, conference room (we'll have for your 
> use one huge auditorium and 3 smaller conf rooms).
>
> All are in the same campus, all are covered with wireless broadband 
> Internet.
>
> Video projectors etc. are also available.
>
> There are plenty of hotels and other activities to have fun...
>
>
> I am not using Freifunk firmware - in early days I used one package 
> from Freifunk, but now nothing anymore.
>
> We have our own heavily modified OpenWRT-based firmware... I think it 
> is quite amazing...
>
> I need to document it - and then share it back with the community.... 
> at this point there is too little documentation to publish it.
>
> We are also using other routers (not only WRT54G) including some 
> multi-channel radios.
>
> I'm using Netgears with external USB radios. We design and manufecture 
> weather-proof boxes for our units here.
>
> Most of the antennas we use are built in India, and we have some 
> commercial organizations that support us and also get professional 
> feedback and testing for their units from us.
>
>
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