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* Rael Lissoos / Dabba | * Rael Lissoos / Dabba | ||
* Henry Marnitz / Ndlovu Medical Centre | * Henry Marnitz / Ndlovu Medical Centre (1 day) | ||
* Mark Summer, Inveneo (with request to forward to Ubiquiti) | * Mark Summer, Inveneo (with request to forward to Ubiquiti) | ||
* Elektra | * Elektra | ||
* Mike Jensen | * Mike Jensen (not confirmed) | ||
* Kobus Roux, Meraka | * Kobus Roux, Meraka (NOT monday) | ||
* Karel Matthee, Meraka | * Karel Matthee, Meraka | ||
* Kim Gush, Meraka | * Kim Gush, Meraka | ||
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* John Hay, Meraka | * John Hay, Meraka | ||
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Revision as of 09:40, 30 May 2008
Work meeting of the WISP-in-a-box project
Date
June 2-3-4, 2008
9-17 h
Location
Meraka Institute, Building 43 C, Hummingbird Room (C128, ground floor)
Pretoria
Invitation List
People and organisations with an active interest in building a concrete product that helps bringing
connectivity to underserviced, underprivileged and overcharged communities in Africa.
Invitation list:
- Steve Song / Shuttleworth Foundation (monday only)
- Rael Lissoos / Dabba
- Henry Marnitz / Ndlovu Medical Centre (1 day)
- Mark Summer, Inveneo (with request to forward to Ubiquiti)
- Elektra
- Mike Jensen (not confirmed)
- Kobus Roux, Meraka (NOT monday)
- Karel Matthee, Meraka
- Kim Gush, Meraka
- David Johnson, Meraka
- Chris Morris, Meraka
- Grant Cambridge, Meraka
- Shela Boshomane, Meraka
- George James, Meraka
- Johann Hugo, Meraka
- John Hay, Meraka
- Ajay Makan, Meraka
- Sebastian Buettrich
More proposals are welcome!
Budgets for travel, if needed: Please contact us!
Contact
Sebastian
mail: sebastian@less.dk skype: sebastian_buettrich cell: (+27) (0) 79 915 32 92
Timeplan
Note: This is Draft!
We currently still have unconfirmed participants and time collisions - the timeplan is draft level and will be adjusted to people's ability to join for limited periods.
Day 1 - Monday, June 2
Morning
Creating Context
Introductions, Presentations of participants
(Short 10 mns, informal project introductions)
- Introduction and WISPiab Project (Sebastian Buettrich)
- Dabba / Orange Farm / Village Telco (Rael Lissoos)
- Ndlovu Medical Centre (Henry Marnitz)
- Peeble's Valley Mesh (David Johnson)
- Digital Doorway (tba)
- Inveneo platform (Mark Summer)
- WISPiab work status (George James)
- Wireless Africa project (Chris Morris)
- Freifunk, B.a.t.m.a.n. & Meraka Mesh Testbed (Elektra)
- DIY Guide & Zambia LinkNet (Karel Matthee)
- IP04 (it46, rowetel) (on behalf of the project: Sebastian Buettrich)
- Other stakeholders?
Afternoon
Business models
Introduction: Sebastian
Business models may be classified according to a number of different dimensions -
e.g. financial/economic layer, tech/network topology layer, applications layer.
Based on the experience of the participants and projects, business models should be reviewed with the goal of reaching a downselection of models that should be implemented/supported in the first iteration of the WISPiab project.
see e.g.
http://wirelessafrica.meraka.org.za/wiki/index.php/WISPiab_specifications#Business_Models_.2F_Use_cases for a rough overview of topology implications.
In particular:
- Voice services - The Village Telco
- "Line sharing" - sharing internet access between
- Telecentre / Internet Cafe
Cooperations and Resources
There is significant overlap between projects on the technology layer. All projects are subscribing to free software models (GPL / CC, etc).
We are operating against a backdrop of
- challenged (human) resource situation
- brain drain / skills exodus
- wanting to build local (i.e. african? ... southern african? .... south african?) capacity
Cooperation between projects seems appropriate and possible.
The goal is to conclude this meeting with a clear picture of modes of cooperation.
Advisory Group
We wish to form an advisory group / peer group, including the invitees of this meeting, but not limited to these.
Day 2 - Tuesday, June 3
Morning
Technical Requirements / Specifications - detail level
Examples of concrete detail issues:
- Authentication - where and how
- Billing in mesh networks
- VoIP in mesh networks
Hardware aspects
Afternoon
Status and planning of implementations
- WISPiab status and work plan
- Dabba / Village Telco work sprint, June 16-20
- Can we prepare and support that workshop
Day 3 - Wednesday, June 4
Morning
Productification / Dissemination / Rollout strategies
- Strategies for the productification of software packages
- Sourceforge platform plans (Steve?)
- Ubuntu / UCK (Sebastian, Mark, Elektra)
- Rollout capacity
Afternoon
Next steps
- Dabba Worksprint
- WISPiab work plan
- Digital Doorway work
- Wireless Africa, June meeting
etc