[wsfii-discuss] Re: Back in Goa

[Fred Pook]

Hi Warren and all,

All good news coming from your side, and lots of good news from Goa! After
one month of wireless testing we (Kloschi, Daniel and Me) succeeded in
building a fairly large village mesh of about 1X1 km under the coconut palm
trees and a 1 shot through the the leaves from the gateway location on a
high building at the main road. All this fun was taking place while not only
being obstructed by the trees and smashed by the sun and heat but shortage
of the right pigtails and the constant mysteriously disaparing of equipment.
Maybe the last had more to do with the quantity of cold beers consumed ....

After having proven the working mesh we are getting requests for permanent
instalations by long term staying foreigners and locals alike. Photo's of
this will be posted soon, i hope.

I have been for a 4 day visit to the IIITM- Kerala institute on invitation
by Prof. Venkatesh and met up with Rene and Hugo to deliver a 2 day workshop
on meshing at the TechnoPark in Trivendrum. Also there is a 4 node demo mesh
alive, and powered by Solar! After some research I found a solar panel
manufactorer in Trivendrum and me and a student Sivchand
managed to get a solar panel set for free.

Sivchand just arrived in Goa and brought 2 more panels here by train. Rene
and Hugo also arrived (and more or less got lost again after more beer) but
we all are ready to do the first permanent Monsoon-proof Solar Powered Mesh
Node Pole by tomorrow.

So please come soon, Warren and you and Frederick can do the political
aspects and PR stuff correctly, the local way. That be great!

The restaurant is now done but as anybody who knows me, knows i would never
make a real food serving place since food is about my last priority. It
serves Free Beer tho and wireless laptops are welcome the access is free,
just the tips to the waitresses is expensive.

Hope to see you all soon,
Freddy
Magip.net



On 12/18/06, Warren Noronha  wrote:
>
> Hey Fred
>
> Hope all is well, sorry I had to rush back to Bombay. Well I have been
> talking about the wireless mesh that you
> guys have setup in Goa. People
> are pretty interested in it. I will be coming back to Goa some where
> after Christmas. This time I would like the both of us to go to the
> Minister and get the piece of land we want from that institute
> on the hill. Some friends of mine from GreenNet, OSF etc, may also
> meet up with me in Goa, to
> check the mesh out. I hope it grows a lot more once I am there.
>
> When do you leave India. Heard your plans for the restaurant are
> coming together. Good luck on
> that. Hope to dine there when I am back in Goa. Also since I am
> coming from Bombay, you can call
> Nagarjuna and we can get the additional hardware that you donated to
> them back. I am sure he
> would oblige and we could use the extra hardware. I am also talking
> to Jim Foster about donating
> hardware. He seems a bit septic about it, but I am trying to persuade
> him to if not donate routers
> free of charge, to at least donate them at a discounted price.
>
> Getting back to the mesh, once I am there, we should swing by
> Fredrick's place and get him to
> come down and check out the mesh. I am sure the extra publicity will
> make it easier for us
> to gather more support for this project. If all goes well you could
> possibly form some kind of
> contract with the Goan government to setup mesh networks in these
> kind of places, thats only
> if your restaurant does not take up all your time.
>
> Keep me updated about stuff out there.
>
> Warm Regards, and Good Luck
> Warren Brian Noronha.
>
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