[vox] OLPC SF Community Summit 2013

[Sameer Verma]

On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Brian Lavender <brian at brie.com> wrote:
> ugh, can't make it. I am going camping that weekend. I will be swimming
> with the fishes and spearing one if I can in Fort Bragg.
>
> So what is the deal with the mesh networking? I looked at the specs for
> the X0-4_Touch and it looks like all it supports is ad-hoc.
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO-4_Touch
>


Yes, they switched to ad-hoc. Not quite sure if it was the right thing to do....

> It looks like the networking page is a little old, but I agree with the
> idea "could connect to other laptops in their vicinity regardless of
> the presence or not of connectivity infrastructure"
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wireless
>
> And, I see that the 802.11s is now standardized by the IEEE.
> At least according to this website
> http://open80211s.org/open80211s/
>

Yes, that's the place to keep an eye on 11s work.

> Mesh seems very key to OLPC. I think it is the next
> revolution in communications even outside of OLPC.

It is, but unless the vendors support with drivers, it's a hardsell.
Then there's the politics of WiFi Direct.

Sameer

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> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 12:10:45PM -0700, Sameer Verma wrote:
>>    Greetings and a Happy GNU 30 to you!
>>    OLPC San Francisco will be hosting its fifth community summit this
>>    year. Although called OLPC *SF* Community Summit, the event attracts
>>    people from all over the world. We see representation from places like
>>    Mongolia, Uruguay, Chad, India, Jamaica, Tuva and the Marshall Islands.
>>    3 million laptops running Fedora and Sugar and GNOME! (and, just to be
>>    clear, *none* have actually shipped with Windows. Ever.)
>>    The newest in the line of XO laptops is the XO-4 Touch, running a
>>    multi-core ARM processor from Marvell. The touch isn't capacitive or
>>    resistive, but is implemented using a light grid! We have 5 year olds
>>    who can modify "Pong" written in Python. We have the first gen kids
>>    showing up at Google Summer of Code. More cool and good stuff at the
>>    event.
>>    The event will be from Oct 18-20. The schedule will be filling up
>>    shortly at [1]http://www.olpcsf.org/CommunitySummit2013/schedule
>>    Registration is open
>>    [2]http://www.olpcsf.org/CommunitySummit2013/registration
>>    We hope to see you at the summit!
>>    cheers,
>>    Sameer
>>    --
>>    Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
>>    Professor, Information Systems
>>    San Francisco State University
>>    [3]http://verma.sfsu.edu/
>>    [4]http://commons.sfsu.edu/
>>    [5]http://olpcsf.org/
>>    [6]http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/
>>
>> References
>>
>>    1. http://www.olpcsf.org/CommunitySummit2013/schedule
>>    2. http://www.olpcsf.org/CommunitySummit2013/registration
>>    3. http://verma.sfsu.edu/
>>    4. http://commons.sfsu.edu/
>>    5. http://olpcsf.org/
>>    6. http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/
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