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While we're eagerly awaiting participants of the BattleMeshV8 conference, we went to check on the venue. All got green and beautiful, spots for contemplation won't be scarce. Come, let's close ranks, put our heads together and connect into a mesh of ... [More] new acquaintances, let's transfuse knowledge, findings and thoughts. =) Comment, like, share ... [Less]

We are opening a call for sponsored travel to attend Battlemesh for anyone living outside Europe and would like to invite you to send your application! Battlemesh is the annual conference/gathering/hack event on community wireless networks and ... [More] routing protocols will be between 3rd-9th August in Maribor, Slovenia. As Battlemesh is in the week before the Chaos Communication Camp in Germany, this is an excellent opportunity to be able to travel to both. Event is free to attend and we still have organized accommodation available at low cost. Read more, comment, like, share ... [Less]

wlan slovenia participated at the presentation of our partners project "Computers for socially vulnerable" and we presented a concept, philosophy and operation of the wlan slovenia network at the Main Square in Novo mesto on 22 April 2015. Partner ... [More] Association Zeitgeist (Društvo Duh časa) deals with recycling and reuse of old computers from businesses, individuals and other organizations and their hand over to socially disadvantaged segments of society. In this activity we observed a lot of synergy, the Society Zeitgeist enable disadvantaged groups access to computers and to we as wlan slovenija provide access to the Internet. This technique brings usability of the computer to the whole new level because with us users get access to all the data of the internet and hence the entire world's knowledge. The event was particularly inspirering for younger users to use/install of our nodes and to start educate towards the development of network technologies. After the event, we had a small reception in the restaurant, managed by students of catering school Novo mesto (by the way the food and service were excellent;) ) and went home. We invite you to stop by at the following events which will be held: On Friday, 29/05/2015 in Sežana municipality spaces Tuesday, 06/09/2015 from 13 to 15 on Preseren Square in Ljubljana. You are welcome to stop by :) Comment, like, share ... [Less]

wlan slovenia participated at the presentation of our partners project "Computers for socially vulnerable" and we presented a concept, philosophy and operation of the wlan slovenia network at the Main Square in Novo mesto on 22 April 2015. Partner ... [More] Association Zeitgeist (Društvo Duh časa) deals with recycling and reuse of old computers from businesses, individuals and other organizations and their hand over to socially disadvantaged segments of society. In this activity we observed a lot of synergy, the Society Zeitgeist enable disadvantaged groups access to computers and we as wlan slovenija provide access to the Internet. This technique brings usability of the computer to the whole new level because with us users get access to all the data of the Internet and hence the entire world's knowledge. The event was particularly inspiring for younger users to use/install of our nodes and to start educate towards the development of network technologies. After the event, we had a small reception in the restaurant Gostišče na trgu, managed by students of the Catering school Novo mesto (by the way, the food and service were excellent;) ) and went home. We are inviting you to stop by at the following events which will be held: On Friday, 29/05/2015 in Sežana municipality premises Tuesday, 06/09/2015 from 13 to 15 on Prešeren Square in Ljubljana. You are welcome to stop by. :) Comment, like, share ... [Less]

Nodewatcher v3 has gained multiple features as well as stabilization bugfixes in the last months. We are now running the latest development branch of nodewatcher v3 in parallel with the old version. Imports of nodewatcher v2 data are done ... [More] regularly in order to test out new fixes and features. Due to having a live version deployed in an actual network, we have found and fixed several bugs related to firmware generation and monitoring. It is now possible to automatically configure STA interfaces on nodes based on the target AP interfaces to which a node should be connecting. While configuring an interface in station mode, the user may simply select the target node instead of manually inputting connection parameters. This enables a better overview of point-to-point links used by the backbone and ensures that the configuration is automatically updated on all the client nodes. Virtual interface names of wifi devices have now been made more human readable (they are now ap0, mesh0, sta0, etc. instead of the previous somewhat more cryptic names). Due to testing, device descriptors for mutliple devices, and thus support for these devices, have been greatly improved. Definition of community network specific default configuration has been simplfied and the module that automatically generates forms for configuration models has been refactored in order to make it simpler. Our OpenWrt telemetry agent has gained support for pushing data to a remote server in addition to the data being pulled from it. This means that the nodewatcher instance now no longer needs to have direct connectivity to the nodes as the nodes may also push data to it. We have also added support for authentication of reported telemetry data, using extensible authentication mechanisms (currently, there is only one based on public key cryptography). When using push, nodes may also authenticate the server using public key pinning. In order to support some ESP8266-based sensor devices, a simple Lua library has been developed for pushing sensor data to nodewatcher. We now also have support for the Babel routing protocol in addition to the previously used OLSR. This includes device configuration and topology reporting from the nodes (since Babel is a distance-vector protocol, our telemetry agent must collect and report topology data on each node in order to generate the combined topology). Multiple protocols can easily be supported on a single node and we are currently deploying nodes with both Babel and OLSR, so that we may slowly transition to a Babel-only mesh. Comment, like, share ... [Less]

We are proudly announcing that the Wireless Battle of the Mesh V8 will happen in August in Maribor, Slovenia! This international annual developer conference brings together wireless community networks participants, WiFi wireless mesh networking ... [More] enthusiasts, developers from the most popular open source mesh protocol implementations (Babel, B.A.T.M.A.N., BMX, IEEE 802.11s, OLSR) and anyone else interested either in developing mesh networking technologies or establishing such networks. The week long event is organized around participant collaboration and learning with a number of talks and workshops running in parallel while performing experiments on a test network deployed just for this purpose. There will be a number of interesting and new devices to test, a setup of wireless optical system KORUZA and much more. See impressions from previous events. Read more, comment, like, share ... [Less]

We are proud to announce collaboration with Commotion Wireless project to bring our nodewatcher platform to their users. We share a vision of a world of empowered people who can build their own Internet connectivity and control their means of ... [More] communication through cooperation. Working together and sharing tools, technologies, experience, and expertise is exactly what open source and community networks are about and we are looking forward to work with amazing people behind the Commotion project. Collaboration comes with a $20.000 contribution to the further development of the nodewatcher platform. Read more, comment, like, share ... [Less]

We are pleased to announce today that Luka Mustafa – Musti has become the Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow to work full-time on development of wireless optical system KORUZA. This unbelievable opportunity will enable the project to become usefully ... [More] open-source in the very near future and soon empower a large number of individuals to construct and deploy their own last-mile gigabit networks. Follow-up on the detailed announcement of the fellowship and the plans for the future on Institute IRNAS blog. Comment, like, share ... [Less]

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Development is continuing on the next version of nodewatcher, the modular provisioning, deployment and monitoring platform targeted at community wireless mesh networks worldwide. Since the last update there have been many improvements to the ... [More] codebase, bringing the platform closer to the first production deployment in wlan slovenia network. Code has been successfully migrated to use the latest Django 1.7. Due to this change the data import system from the old nodewatcher v2, currently deployed in our network, has been rewritten so that it is now much easier to perform v2-to-v3 migrations. This will enable use to deploy the final system with ease. The firmware generation system has been updated and frontend support has been added for managing builds and reporting on their status. Multiple devices have been tested and currently there are already a few devices running in the mesh network that have been configured and generated using the new platform. During this testing a lot of generator-related bugs have been fixed and device support has been improved. Hold-down period has been implemented for IP resource allocation pools. This enables the allocation system to hold allocated ranges even after they have been freed in order to prevent immediate address reuse which could lead to conflicts. A module for map-based visualization has been implemented using Leaflet and OpenStreetMap, making it easy for other modules to extend the map with their own visualizations (for example, currently the OLSR routing plugin colors links between nodes based on the value of the routing metric). This is similar to the client-side routing topology rendering which also supports such extensibility. Frontend support for managing user public keys used for authentication to nodes has been added. Our OpenWrt telemetry agent has been improved with additional reporting functions. Server-side monitoring processors and validators have been updated and their performance has been improved. To improve interoperability between different node database solutions, we are participating in an effort to create a common JSON schema for exchanging various node data. In order to reduce the management overhead, the Docker images used for production deployments and development have now been unified, so that the development environment is now equal to the production one. Next steps will bring more frontend support, further debugging, documentation and production readiness. Comment, like, share ... [Less]