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Por traslado de vivienda me veo obligado a desmantelar el nodo principal, por lo que la red queda, a falta de nuevo aviso, clausurada por impedimentos técnicos.

La única posibilidad viable para poderla poner en funcionamiento de nuevo pasa por instalar un punto de acceso en las instalaciones municipales sitas en el Coll Andritxol.

 Hemos hecho una peticion informal al Ayuntamiento de Andratx para que nos de permiso a instalar los equipos pero por el momento no tenemos luz verde para realizar la instalación.

 Por ello, y muy a nuestro pesar, quedamos a la espera de nociticas por parte del consistorio.

Sjednica upravnog odbora održana je 13.02.2010. g odine sa početkom u 19:00 h.

Dnevni red:

1. Utvrđivanje članstva udruge 5net u 2010.g., a prema uplatama članarina.

2. Trenutno financijsko stanje udruge 5net.

3. Prijedlog formiranja radne skupine za donošenje prijedloga novog tj. izmjenjenog pravilnika o radu udruge, te statuta udrge 5net.

4. Pitanje financijskog plana i programa rada udruge 5net u 2010.g., te mogućnost participiranja u proračunu grada Petrinje.

5. Donošenje odluke o pravovaljanosti odluka donesenih putem foruma upravnog odbora na portalu udruge 5net - www.5net.hr.

6. Razno.

Nazočni na sjednici upravnog odbora udruge 5net:

1.predsjenik upravnog odbora Damir Vadlja

2.dopredsjenik upravnog odbora Ivan Kosak

3.član upravnog odbora Lahorko Gulam

4.člana upravnog odbora Marijan Kireta

Am kommenden Donnerstag, den 4. Februar 2010 findet in Mainz ein Vortrag zum Thema "Rechtliche Gefahren offener WLANs und Lösungsansätze" statt. Veranstalter ist die Freifunk-Initiative Mainz in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung Rhein-Main.

Zugängliche WLANs sind eine hilfreiche Einrichtung, bergen aber auch rechtliche Risiken für Betreiber wie Nutzer. Traurige Berühmtheit hat etwa die von der Rechtsprechung entwickelte 'Störerhaftung' erlangt, dank der selbst das altruistische, unentgeltliche Betreiben eines WLAN-Hotspots ein kostspieliges Vergnügen werden kann. Ahnungslose Nutzer wurden festgenommen. Welche Probleme gibt es und wie lassen sie sich lösen?

Der Referent ist Jurist vom Fachbereich Rechtswissenschaft der Universität Frankfurt. Los geht es um 19 Uhr. Eingeladen sind alle an der Thematik Interessierten.

Ort: pengland (Anfahrt)
Eintritt: frei
Start: 19 Uhr

I've been busy day and night, hacking away on my latest pet project in the GSM field. In fact, it's been a long time since I've been able to dedicate so much time and energy into one particular project, without many distractions at all. The project is now finally looking quite promising and making nice progress throughout the last three weeks.

If progress continues, I hope in another week I'll be able to reveal what this is all about. I haven't felt this level of excitement since the early days of Openmoko :)

I had the chance to work for a couple of months with my friend Mike Dawson last year in Afghanistan. He is the core person behind the OLPC project in Afghanistan and pushes for Free and Open Technologies in Afghanistan. Solutions like LXDE with it focus on a lightweight and energy saving desktop or decentralised low powered networks like Freifunk offer new opportunities to give people access even in remote areas.

As part of the OLPC project Freifunk networks were already deployed in five Afghan cities including Jalalabad and Kandahar. Regularly updated local servers - easy to administer small netbooks - in the local networks give people access to copies of many local news resources, Wikipedia and thousands of educational books.

I regularly receive news from Mike and I would like to share them with you.

We've successfully tested here in Afghanistan using Freifunk to mesh routers between classrooms so that we can avoid the need for doing ethernet cabling in the school.  Now with the 802.11n hardware out there that supports dual band MIMO 2.4GHZ and 5GHZ I'm hoping that we can achieve a wireless backbone performance equal or better to cabled.

Some Freifunkers out in Italy managed to get 80Mbps over a 4KM link even:

http://74.125.153.132/search?q=cache:Ul-NcC60_tYJ:global.freifunk.net/%3Fq%3Ditem/open_source_802_11n_big_breakthroughs_are_coming+freifunk+802.11n&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk

As far as I can tell 100Mbps (hopefully we can achieve 200-300) should be a reasonable throughput for the backbone for running the local library service / jabber / journal backup with about 600 laptops in the school, any opinions on that?

I was thinking of making a small transparent plastic container for it so that each one would sit slightly above the roof of each classroom, then connect to a normal 802.11g router in the classroom.

As per other deployments we cut the signal strength inside the
classroom; the classrooms are running on two non overlapping channels and the mesh backbone on another.  We should have results by the end of the month.  Given the cost of sending technicians to do cabling, feeding them, etc. I'm hoping this works out as about the same cost but more scalable.

Regards,