Re: Re: Back in Goa

Sounds great stuff. 

Warren, we need to talk about urban - municipal -
meshing for Mumbai - sooner rather thsn later.

Fred, looking forward to meshing up whenever Goa is on
the travel horizon.

--- Fred Pook <fredpook@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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