[Novalug] May and June topics

greg pryzby greg@pryzby.org
Fri Apr 29 23:14:57 EDT 2011


Excellent.

What do you want me to put on the site to 'announce' the topic?

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 8:17 PM, The Doctor <drwho@virtadpt.net> wrote:
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>> We do not have a May speaker. Anyone?
>
> For the past couple of months I've been working with some of the members
> of HacDC on something we call Project Byzantium.  Byzantium is a rapidly
> deployable mesh network which helps implement communication and
> collaboration in environments with compromised telecom infrastructures,
> solving two problems that we call the Egypt Problem (a hostile entity
> shuts off the infrastructure) and the Katrina Problem (a natural
> disaster knocks out large portions of the infrastructure) (we cannot
> rule out outbreaks of the Exsurgent virus).  Our design goals involve
> low cost, improvisability (ideally, a small group of people should be
> able to patch together a sizable Byzantium mesh using stuff they have
> laying around the house), and the ability to allow wi-fi enabled nodes
> to make use of the mesh without having to run the mesh networking
> software (but it would be nice if they did).  We will eventually produce
> and maintain a LiveUSB distribution which can be used to set up mesh
> nodes in a short period of time, full documentation, and a toolkit of
> applications.
>
> Here's our wiki page: http://wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/Byzantium
>
> If NOVALUG would be amenable, we'd like to present our findings at the
> next meeting.
>
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> The Doctor [412/724/301/703]
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> Outlook: From the company that thought the Good Times virus was a neat idea.
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