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Sabato 24 novembre 2012 ore 10,00 Fish bussa alla porta di Zio Proto: “Svegliati barbone si comincia!”

I lavori di ricostruzione sono durati ben due giorni dove una rete a 2,4 ghz malandata, vecchia e lasciata a se stessa e’ stata completamente rifatta da zero ritornando a funzionare con nuovi impianti, nuovi apparati e nuove sfide da affrontare.

Non potevano mancare le sorprese che ci hanno fatto avere le idee ancora piu’ chiare del perche’ ninux nel corso della sua evoluzione abbia deciso di adottare uno standard di costruzione dei nodi elevato dove nulla debba essere lasciato al caso.

Prima:

Dopo:

Tutto il recuperabile e’ stato recuperato compresi i vecchi apparati a 2,4 ghz funzionanti che sono stati puliti, revisionati, riconfigurati ed ora si godono il meritato riposo come access point casalinghi con il loro sano firmware 🙂

Prima:

Dopo:

In 2 giorni una rete non piu’ funzionante e’ stata smatellata e sono stati costruiti da zero un SuperNode e ben tre nodi Foglia!

Un progetto che sembrava destinato a morire lasciato a se stesso oggi e’ di nuovo una realta’ presente, funzionante ed usufruibile da molte famiglie in un residence a pochi kilometri da Roma.

Ritornare a fare tuscolomesh per me e’ stato come tornare indietro nel tempo ma con il valore aggiunto di aver maturato un esperienza che non faccia riptere gli errori passati, consapevole di fare le cose in modo che funzionino e che possano durare nel tempo.

Rivedere tante persone che sei anni fa ci hanno creduto in ninux  nonostante le difficolta’ e’ stato  impagabile per me.

Tuscolomesh e’ tornata!

Dove tutto e’ cominciato…..dove tutto continuera’ ad esistere!

Alla prossima!

Fish 🙂

I’m so sorry I was totally busy and I hadn’t time yet to blog about the Ninux Day !!! So it is now time to write something !

It was our first Ninux Day, and it was great !

Every started Thursday night. Many of our international guests were already here in Rome, so we had a Warm up Party at Fusolab.

The following morning I went to Defrag_ to open up the place around 10.00, because the first people were expected by 12.00. Thanks to Andrea we had some beautiful posters at the entrance, as you can see in the picture.

Friday was quite a busy day. We had  many interesting talks, and people started to know each other. Only on the first day we had more than 50 people attending, and many were coming from abroad. On Sunday we had registered 123 people !

The first talk started a bit late, Ulf was the first one to have his slides ready, so I sent him on stage He started an interesting talk on how to manage cameras with embedded devices running OpenWRT and gphoto. The goal was to use the embedded devices to make panoramic pictures. Friday talks were on many different topics. After Ulf we had Alexander List talking about the Open Spectrum. After a while the “use the wiki” signs we had put everywhere at Defrag_ started to work… the hackers were self managing the event their self, timetable was optimized, talks were shaped to the avaiable timeslots… it is always cool to see how the hacker society can self manage an event

To help the people know each other we organized a permanent PGP Signing Party. Most of us exchange emails during the year, very often attaching patches and snippets of code. It is a good thing to make sure about the identity of the person who is writing to you. So the key signing had begin ! After a while people were interacting together, coding, discussing about protocol, showing their work to others.

The long Ninux Day continued for the all weekend until Sunday in the late afternoon. For the first time I have seen people from wireless communities from all Europe actually working together and exchanging ideas. I was very very happy about the result, even if organizing everything I missed many details on the presentation and works that were going on ! But it was ok! I just can’t do too many things at the same time

The very good thing about this event is that now people are still discussing and working on the ideas and projects developed in the weekend in Rome. On the Ninux Day mailing list and on the nodedb-interop list you will find community members from all europe actively working.

Well, it is too had to describe the Ninux Day in such a short blog post, so if this year you have missed it, I suggest it is much better to come next year and see with your eyes !

Happy hacking !

Saverio