Ninux.org Wireless Community

Dal 6 all’11 Maggio ci sarà uno sprint di sviluppo su nodeshot a Madrid al Medialab Prado in occasione dell’evento Visualizar’15.

Durante il workshop alcuni partecipanti di Ninux e Guifi si incontreranno per migliorare nodeshot applicandolo ad un un prototipo di mappa locale di Guifi.

E’ possibile partecipare allo sprint anche da remoto, entra in contatto con noi tramite la mailing list dedicata a nodeshot, sulla documentazione puoi trovare le istruzioni su come cominciare a contribuire.

We are glad to announce that this year, for the first time, ninux.org is an accepted organization in the Google Summer of Code program! Quoting from the GSoC 2012 website:

Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers students stipends to write code for open source projects. We have worked with the open source community to identify and fund exciting projects for the upcoming summer.

The wireless community networking, open source projects the students will be working on are:

• DNS Management App for wireless communities will allow community network members to manage easily their own DNS records
• Nodeshot database and server side code refactoring will continue our work on our successful mapserver engine
• Improve remote monitoring and managing of OpenWrt will develop a node monitoring and management system, integrated with nodeshot
• Mobile Application for managing the Ninux Network will be the wireless community network member swiss armyknife
• Mobile application to do AR aided wireless device pointing suitable for Wireless Community Networks will be a great tool to help people build wireless nodes on their roofs using augmented reality

Many thanks to Freifunk, that in the previous GSoCs has hosted our ideas, letting us experience and grow to this point. We are looking forward to the completion of this awesome projects, and we hope to be able to pass on to the students our passion and enthusiasm for community networking!

Domenica 23 ottobre un gruppetto di otto persone: Sephiroth, Nemesis, Fish, Francesca, Pilla, zenProto, Davide, Fiengo si vede alle 7.00am davanti la farm. Tutti carichi per la l’evento openTerni! Spicciatina alle auto e siamo in viaggio! Il pieno di combustibile fossile della migliore qualità sul mercato ci ha permesso di uscirne senza fatica tra le strada “montagnosa” che separa roma da terni.

Arrivati ci facciamo riconoscere subito dalla reception, con un caloroso saluto. Noi di Ninux abbiamo presentato Nagios e il nuovo mapServer NodeShoot rispettivamente da zenProto e Nemesis. Potete trovare le presentazioni del Nodeshot qui e Nagios qui.

Finiti i convenevoli ci siamo messi a fare sul serio: ovvero lan party with UrbanTerror!

Per il pranzo abbiamo mangiato tutti insieme, anche con il gruppo di terni, alla mensa,  sempre tutto organizzato dai ragazzi di ternilug. Tutto ottimo, c’è chi ha preso più volte il tris 😉

Hunter e Clauz, buongustai ci ha raggiunto per quell’ora 😀

Altre foto di repertorio di alcuni cimeli:

un saluto da Angelo aka Sephiroth

Do wireless communities around the world really need another map server? Here in Ninux we believe that the answer is yes!

Enter Nodeshot an open source wireless community map server written in python and based on django, focused on ease of use and performance. (more…)

The Ninux community, under the umbrella of Freifunk, developed four awesome open-source projects for the Google Summer of Code program 2011: a front-end for RadioMate, a new mapserver (called nodeshot), a video and chat extension to the social networking engine Diaspora* and a new tunneling tool.

In this post I will write about RadioMate, the project I was involved in. Then posts on the other projects will follow!

There are many web-radio projects that are closely involved in the world of Community Networks: in Rome Fusoradio and Radio Sonar are an active part of the community and relay on the ninux network for their streaming, in Leipzig Radio Blau (which transmits also in FM) gives big spaces to the Freifunk project, or RadioCona in Ljubljana, where the Wlan Slovenija project is based.

Often these web radios have to relay on closed-source software platforms as the available open-source solutions don’t fit their needs.

RadioMate is a free (as in freedom) community-wise Web-radio management system. Some of its features are:

• support of multiple users with different privileges (roles)
• easy radio schedule management
• handling of audio files and playlists
• extendable with new types of transmissions
• interface with the icecast server
• takeover of the radio streaming in case of “special editions”

While last year the RadioMate engine was developed, this year our efforts focused on a Web frontend. You can find a demo at radiomate.ninux.org. The username is “foobar” while the password is “secret”. Point also your player (e.g. VLC) at radiomate.ninux.org:8000.

For the techies, the engine is based on liquidsoap, written in Python, and easily extendable through liquidsoap scripts. It exports a JSON API which is exploited by the Javascript (jQuery) based Web frontend. Source code and documentation can be found at radiomate.org.

Of course there is still work to do, but I hope that this software will be soon used by our friends running webradios!

As we say in Rome:Daje!
Clauz