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  <title>Freifunkblog</title>
  <subtitle>Freie Netzwerke, freies WLAN und freie (Funk-)Netze im deutschsprachigen Raum</subtitle>
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  <updated>2008-05-01T18:05:02+02:00</updated>
  <entry>
    <title>Beitrag über Virtual Private Networks mit freifunkbezug</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.freifunk.net/2008/beitrag-%C3%BCber-virtual-private-networks-mit-freifunkbezug" />
    <id>http://blog.freifunk.net/2008/beitrag-%C3%BCber-virtual-private-networks-mit-freifunkbezug</id>
    <published>2008-06-27T17:48:23+02:00</published>
    <updated>2008-06-27T17:48:23+02:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Mario Behling</name>
    </author>
    <category term="Ernst Ahlers" />
    <category term="freie netze" />
    <category term="freifunk" />
    <category term="funknetze" />
    <category term="heise" />
    <category term="heise netze" />
    <category term="heise.de" />
    <category term="hotspots" />
    <category term="Medien" />
    <category term="netzwerke" />
    <category term="Netzwerken" />
    <category term="netzwerkschutz" />
    <category term="openvpn" />
    <category term="sicherheit" />
    <category term="Virtual Private Network" />
    <category term="virtuelle private netzwerke" />
    <category term="vpn" />
    <category term="vpn-zugang" />
    <category term="wlan" />
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>
Ernst Ahlers hat auf heise Netze einen Beitrag ueber die Moeglichkeiten sich sicherer in Funknetzen zu bewegen geschrieben: &quot;<a href="http://www.heise.de/netze/Hotspot-aber-sicher--/artikel/109761">Hotspot, aber sicher: Funknetze unterwegs benutzen ohne Abhörgefahr</a>&quot;
</p>
<blockquote>
	Über WLAN-Hotspots stolpert man nicht nur in den Zentren größerer Städte, sondern auch auf der Ferieninsel immer häufiger. Da juckt es den Netzsüchtigen, sein Urlaubs-Blog mit neuen Fotos zu bestücken, E-Mail abzuholen und per VoIP-Anruf zu checken, ob der in Pflege gegebene Nymphensittich brav ist. Dafür, dass private Daten trotz des unverschlüsselten Funknetzes auch privat bleiben, sorgt ein VPN-Tunnel. (23.06.2008, Ernst Ahlers, <a href="http://www.heise.de/netze/Hotspot-aber-sicher--/artikel/109761" title="http://www.heise.de/netze/Hotspot-aber-sicher--/artikel/109761">http://www.heise.de/netze/Hotspot-aber-sicher--/artikel/109761</a>)<br />
</blockquote>
<p>
Erfreulicherweise wird Freifunk ebenfalls erwaehnt:
</p>
<blockquote>
	<p>
	Teilnehmer eines Hotspot-Netzes auf Gegenseitigkeit wie Fon oder
	Freifunk haben sogar Gratis-Zugang, wenn sie mit etwas Glück ein
	anderes Mitglied derselben Community finden. (23.06.2008, Ernst Ahlers, <a href="http://www.heise.de/netze/Hotspot-aber-sicher--/artikel/109761" title="http://www.heise.de/netze/Hotspot-aber-sicher--/artikel/109761">http://www.heise.de/netze/Hotspot-aber-sicher--/artikel/109761</a>)<br />
	</p>
</blockquote>
<p>
Bei Freifunk handelt es sich zwar nicht um ein reines Hotspot-Netz, da Teilnehmer auch direkt miteinander durch Meshnetze verbunden sind, richtig ist dennoch, dass viele Internet ueber ihre Router zur Verfuegung stellen.
</p>
<p>
Als ersten Schritt empfiehlt Ehlers zum Selbstschutz den Emailverkehr auf sichere Dienste zu nutzen und fuer den Login stets die sichere Datenuebertragung mittels &quot;https://&quot; zu nutzen. Besser ist jedoch gleich ein Virtual Private Network (<a href="http://www.heise.de/glossar/entry/0e267e7738961cbb" class="glossar_link">VPN</a>)
einzurichten. Dies schützt den kompletten Internetverkehr.
</p>
<p>
<img src="/files/images/funknetz-vpn-tunnel.jpg" height="134" width="400" /><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif">Mit VPN surft man über einen verschlüsselten Kanal zwischen Notebook und VPN-Gateway, der Lauschern keine Chance lässt.</span> (<a href="http://www.heise.de/netze/Hotspot-aber-sicher--/artikel/109761">Image: heise.de</a>)
</p>
<blockquote>
	<p>
	VPNs lassen
	sich unter Windows, Mac OS X und Linux leicht einrichten ... VPNs wurden ursprünglich entwickelt, um Firmen-LANs an mehreren Standorten über öffentliche Netze (<a href="http://www.heise.de/glossar/entry/028458ad63ad7251" class="glossar_link">WAN</a>,
	Wide Area Networks) wie das Internet zu koppeln. Später kam das
	Anbinden von Heimarbeitern ans Firmennetz hinzu. Damit dabei die WAN-
	und Internet-Provider keinen Einblick bekommen, verschlüsseln VPNs die
	übertragenen Daten. Deshalb drängt sich die Technik geradezu auf, um
	mobilen Surfern im Hotspot ihre Privatsphäre zurückzugeben. Wenn man
	selbst keinen VPN-Server betreibt, stellen VPN-Anbieter eine passende
	Gegenstelle bereit, die statt ins Firmen-<a href="http://www.heise.de/glossar/entry/f739ebed39e72e32" class="glossar_link">LAN</a> ins Internet führt. (23.06.2008, Ernst Ahlers, <a href="http://www.heise.de/netze/Hotspot-aber-sicher--/artikel/109761" title="http://www.heise.de/netze/Hotspot-aber-sicher--/artikel/109761">http://www.heise.de/netze/Hotspot-aber-sicher--/artikel/109761</a>)
	</p>
</blockquote>
<p>
In dem Beitrag wird erklaert, wie man ein VPN einrichten kann und welche Anbieter es gibt. Abschliessend gibt es noch Tipps, wofuer die virtuellen privaten Netzwerke noch nuetzlich sein koennen.
</p>
<blockquote>
	<p>
	Auch abseits von WLAN-Hotspots kann ein VPN-Zugang nützlich sein,
	beispielsweise wenn man Geolocation-Dienste umgehen möchte, um
	US-Webseiten im Original zu sehen, oder Datenschnüfflern eine lange
	Nase drehen will. Doch das leichte Aufsetzen eines VPN sollte nicht zu
	Leichtsinn verleiten: Eine Firewall, aktiver Virenschutz und gesundes
	Misstrauen gehören nach wie vor zur Sicherheits-Grundausstattung, denn
	gegen Trojaner schützt auch ein VPN nicht. (23.06.2008, Ernst Ahlers, <a href="http://www.heise.de/netze/Hotspot-aber-sicher--/artikel/109761" title="http://www.heise.de/netze/Hotspot-aber-sicher--/artikel/109761">http://www.heise.de/netze/Hotspot-aber-sicher--/artikel/109761</a>)
	</p>
</blockquote>
    ]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>
Ernst Ahlers hat auf heise Netze einen Beitrag ueber die Moeglichkeiten sich sicherer in Funknetzen zu bewegen geschrieben: &quot;<a href="http://www.heise.de/netze/Hotspot-aber-sicher--/artikel/109761">Hotspot, aber sicher: Funknetze unterwegs benutzen ohne Abhörgefahr</a>&quot;
</p>
<blockquote>
	Über WLAN-Hotspots stolpert man nicht nur in den Zentren größerer Städte, sondern auch auf der Ferieninsel immer häufiger. Da juckt es den Netzsüchtigen, sein Urlaubs-Blog mit neuen Fotos zu bestücken, E-Mail abzuholen und per VoIP-Anruf zu checken, ob der in Pflege gegebene Nymphensittich brav ist. Dafür, dass private Daten trotz des unverschlüsselten Funknetzes auch privat bleiben, sorgt ein VPN-Tunnel. (23.06.2008, Ernst Ahlers, <a href="http://www.heise.de/netze/Hotspot-aber-sicher--/artikel/109761" title="http://www.heise.de/netze/Hotspot-aber-sicher--/artikel/109761">http://www.heise.de/netze/Hotspot-aber-sicher--/artikel/109761</a>)<br />
</blockquote>
<p>
Erfreulicherweise wird Freifunk ebenfalls erwaehnt:
</p>
<blockquote>
	<p>
	Teilnehmer eines Hotspot-Netzes auf Gegenseitigkeit wie Fon oder
	Freifunk haben sogar Gratis-Zugang, wenn sie mit etwas Glück ein
	anderes Mitglied derselben Community finden. (23.06.2008, Ernst Ahlers, <a href="http://www.heise.de/netze/Hotspot-aber-sicher--/artikel/109761" title="http://www.heise.de/netze/Hotspot-aber-sicher--/artikel/109761">http://www.heise.de/netze/Hotspot-aber-sicher--/artikel/109761</a>)<br />
	</p>
</blockquote>
<p>
Bei Freifunk handelt es sich zwar nicht um ein reines Hotspot-Netz, da Teilnehmer auch direkt miteinander durch Meshnetze verbunden sind, richtig ist dennoch, dass viele Internet ueber ihre Router zur Verfuegung stellen.
</p>
<p>
Als ersten Schritt empfiehlt Ehlers zum Selbstschutz den Emailverkehr auf sichere Dienste zu nutzen und fuer den Login stets die sichere Datenuebertragung mittels &quot;https://&quot; zu nutzen. Besser ist jedoch gleich ein Virtual Private Network (<a href="http://www.heise.de/glossar/entry/0e267e7738961cbb" class="glossar_link">VPN</a>)
einzurichten. Dies schützt den kompletten Internetverkehr.
</p>
<p>
<img src="/files/images/funknetz-vpn-tunnel.jpg" height="134" width="400" /><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif">Mit VPN surft man über einen verschlüsselten Kanal zwischen Notebook und VPN-Gateway, der Lauschern keine Chance lässt.</span> (<a href="http://www.heise.de/netze/Hotspot-aber-sicher--/artikel/109761">Image: heise.de</a>)
</p>
<blockquote>
	<p>
	VPNs lassen
	sich unter Windows, Mac OS X und Linux leicht einrichten ... VPNs wurden ursprünglich entwickelt, um Firmen-LANs an mehreren Standorten über öffentliche Netze (<a href="http://www.heise.de/glossar/entry/028458ad63ad7251" class="glossar_link">WAN</a>,
	Wide Area Networks) wie das Internet zu koppeln. Später kam das
	Anbinden von Heimarbeitern ans Firmennetz hinzu. Damit dabei die WAN-
	und Internet-Provider keinen Einblick bekommen, verschlüsseln VPNs die
	übertragenen Daten. Deshalb drängt sich die Technik geradezu auf, um
	mobilen Surfern im Hotspot ihre Privatsphäre zurückzugeben. Wenn man
	selbst keinen VPN-Server betreibt, stellen VPN-Anbieter eine passende
	Gegenstelle bereit, die statt ins Firmen-<a href="http://www.heise.de/glossar/entry/f739ebed39e72e32" class="glossar_link">LAN</a> ins Internet führt. (23.06.2008, Ernst Ahlers, <a href="http://www.heise.de/netze/Hotspot-aber-sicher--/artikel/109761" title="http://www.heise.de/netze/Hotspot-aber-sicher--/artikel/109761">http://www.heise.de/netze/Hotspot-aber-sicher--/artikel/109761</a>)
	</p>
</blockquote>
<p>
In dem Beitrag wird erklaert, wie man ein VPN einrichten kann und welche Anbieter es gibt. Abschliessend gibt es noch Tipps, wofuer die virtuellen privaten Netzwerke noch nuetzlich sein koennen.
</p>
<blockquote>
	<p>
	Auch abseits von WLAN-Hotspots kann ein VPN-Zugang nützlich sein,
	beispielsweise wenn man Geolocation-Dienste umgehen möchte, um
	US-Webseiten im Original zu sehen, oder Datenschnüfflern eine lange
	Nase drehen will. Doch das leichte Aufsetzen eines VPN sollte nicht zu
	Leichtsinn verleiten: Eine Firewall, aktiver Virenschutz und gesundes
	Misstrauen gehören nach wie vor zur Sicherheits-Grundausstattung, denn
	gegen Trojaner schützt auch ein VPN nicht. (23.06.2008, Ernst Ahlers, <a href="http://www.heise.de/netze/Hotspot-aber-sicher--/artikel/109761" title="http://www.heise.de/netze/Hotspot-aber-sicher--/artikel/109761">http://www.heise.de/netze/Hotspot-aber-sicher--/artikel/109761</a>)
	</p>
</blockquote>
    ]]></content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>OpenWrt team announces OpenWrt Kamikaze 808 Release with Luci Interface</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.freifunk.net/2008/openwrt-team-announces-openwrt-kamikaze-808-release-with-luci-interface" />
    <id>http://blog.freifunk.net/2008/openwrt-team-announces-openwrt-kamikaze-808-release-with-luci-interface</id>
    <published>2008-06-20T20:16:06+02:00</published>
    <updated>2008-06-20T20:20:03+02:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Mario Behling</name>
    </author>
    <category term="cph" />
    <category term="embedded linux" />
    <category term="FFLuci" />
    <category term="free wireless" />
    <category term="freifunk" />
    <category term="gnu" />
    <category term="gnu/linux" />
    <category term="kamikaze" />
    <category term="Luci" />
    <category term="luci interface" />
    <category term="mesh" />
    <category term="Mesh Networks" />
    <category term="openwrt" />
    <category term="OpenWrt Kamikaze 808" />
    <category term="Software" />
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>
The OpenWrt team (Cph) has <a href="http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=69873">announced a new version</a> of its Linux distribution for embedded wireless devices named &quot;OpenWrt Kamikaze 808 Release&quot;. I talked to Felix Fietkau already at the <a href="http://wiki.freifunk.net/Wireless_Community_Weekend_2008">WCW</a>. Unfortunately we did not have the time to do an interview at the end. But Cyrus from <a href="http://halle.freifunk.net">freifunk Halle</a> gave a short <a href="/2008/ffluci-next-generation-lua-web-interface-f%C3%BCr-openwrt-von-steven-cyrus-barth">showcase of his interface</a> (in German). The OpenWrt team was also impressed by it and they now announce the enclosure of the <a href="http://wiki.freifunk-halle.net/Luci">Luci interface</a> officially. Congratulations Cyrus!
</p>
<p align="center">
<img src="/files/images/OpenWrt.jpg" height="124" width="396" />
</p>
<blockquote>
	<p>
	It has been quite a while since OpenWrt had a new Kamikaze release. The developer team has decided that it is time to get things straight and focus on a new release. This release have the official name: OpenWrt Kamikaze 808 Release.<br />
	<br />
	The schedule will look like this:<br />
	*Last day in July - final release candidate: 808 RC-1 808 RC-1 will be a feature freeze, and all changes after this point will be bug fixes.<br />
	*Last day in August - final release: OpenWrt Kamikaze 808 Release.<br />
	<br />
	OpenWrt Kamikaze 808 Release will focus on bringing the following:<br />
	- Firewall rewrite<br />
	- Broadcom 47xx running reliably with the new Kernel, not including wifi<br />
	- IMQ and Traffic shaping tested with newer kernels, especially 2.6.25<br />
	- Sysupgrade for more platforms (x86 is tested again)<br />
	- The new web interface (LuCI, Lua Configuration Interface)<br />
	- Attention towards the integration of security updates<br />
	- Package maintaining and updates between releases <br />
	- Testing, testing and lots of testing...<br />
	<br />
	The 808 Release will also include support for several new platforms/targets. (<a href="http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=69873" title="http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=69873">http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=69873</a> )
	</p>
</blockquote>
    ]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>
The OpenWrt team (Cph) has <a href="http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=69873">announced a new version</a> of its Linux distribution for embedded wireless devices named &quot;OpenWrt Kamikaze 808 Release&quot;. I talked to Felix Fietkau already at the <a href="http://wiki.freifunk.net/Wireless_Community_Weekend_2008">WCW</a>. Unfortunately we did not have the time to do an interview at the end. But Cyrus from <a href="http://halle.freifunk.net">freifunk Halle</a> gave a short <a href="/2008/ffluci-next-generation-lua-web-interface-f%C3%BCr-openwrt-von-steven-cyrus-barth">showcase of his interface</a> (in German). The OpenWrt team was also impressed by it and they now announce the enclosure of the <a href="http://wiki.freifunk-halle.net/Luci">Luci interface</a> officially. Congratulations Cyrus!
</p>
<p align="center">
<img src="/files/images/OpenWrt.jpg" height="124" width="396" />
</p>
<blockquote>
	<p>
	It has been quite a while since OpenWrt had a new Kamikaze release. The developer team has decided that it is time to get things straight and focus on a new release. This release have the official name: OpenWrt Kamikaze 808 Release.<br />
	<br />
	The schedule will look like this:<br />
	*Last day in July - final release candidate: 808 RC-1 808 RC-1 will be a feature freeze, and all changes after this point will be bug fixes.<br />
	*Last day in August - final release: OpenWrt Kamikaze 808 Release.<br />
	<br />
	OpenWrt Kamikaze 808 Release will focus on bringing the following:<br />
	- Firewall rewrite<br />
	- Broadcom 47xx running reliably with the new Kernel, not including wifi<br />
	- IMQ and Traffic shaping tested with newer kernels, especially 2.6.25<br />
	- Sysupgrade for more platforms (x86 is tested again)<br />
	- The new web interface (LuCI, Lua Configuration Interface)<br />
	- Attention towards the integration of security updates<br />
	- Package maintaining and updates between releases <br />
	- Testing, testing and lots of testing...<br />
	<br />
	The 808 Release will also include support for several new platforms/targets. (<a href="http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=69873" title="http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=69873">http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=69873</a> )
	</p>
</blockquote>
    ]]></content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Training Materials for Wireless Networks from WiLAC available for download</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.freifunk.net/2008/training-materials-wireless-networks-wilac-available-download" />
    <id>http://blog.freifunk.net/2008/training-materials-wireless-networks-wilac-available-download</id>
    <published>2008-06-17T18:12:14+02:00</published>
    <updated>2008-06-17T20:36:37+02:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Mario Behling</name>
    </author>
    <category term="Alberto Escudero Pascual" />
    <category term="Alberto Escudero-Pascual" />
    <category term="Caribbean" />
    <category term="Community" />
    <category term="Dafne Sabanes Plou" />
    <category term="Ermanno Pietrosemoli" />
    <category term="ESLARED" />
    <category term="Lating Ameria" />
    <category term="Lilian Chamorro" />
    <category term="Louise Berthils" />
    <category term="Mesh Networks" />
    <category term="Microwaves" />
    <category term="Philosophie" />
    <category term="TRICALCAR" />
    <category term="WiLAC" />
    <category term="Wireless Networks" />
    <category term="workshops" />
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>
<a href="http://www.wilac.net">WILAC</a>, an initiative to promote wireless technolgies in Latin America and the Caribbean (&quot;Tecnologías inalámbricas para el Desarrollo en América Latina y el Caribe&quot;), has published some of their <a href="http://www.wilac.net/modules.php?op=modload&amp;name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=288">training materials</a> in English. I uploaded their presentations to <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/mariobehling">Slideshare</a> for people to be able to embed them into their websites and blogs. Here is the presentation with an introduction to Wimax. 
</p>
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<a href="http://www.slideshare.net/mariobehling/wimax-and-non-standard-solutions?src=embed" title="View WiMax and non standard solutions on SlideShare">View</a>
</div>
</div>
<blockquote>
	<p>
	As part of the TRICALCAR project a set of 7 brand new modules, which
	we are please to share with the group of technicians part who develop
	the original curriculum of the CWCA project in Africa. We know publish
	this materials in English, as a feedback to the community who has been
	using the original curriculum. The materials are publiched under the
	same formats and conditions of the rest of the TRICALCAR project. (16 Junio, 2008 - 11:00 AM, <a href="http://www.wilac.net/modules.php?op=modload&amp;name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=288">http://www.wilac.net/mod...</a>) 
	</p>
</blockquote>
<p>
The materials were created by different wireless experts including Ermanno Pietrosemoli (well-known for his longrange wireless connections), Alberto Escudero-Pascual, Louise Berthils, Lilian Chamorro, Dafne Sabanes Plou and Alberto Escudero Pascual. 
</p>
<p>
The WILAC website is part of an initiative of <a href="http://www.eslared.org.ve/">ESLARED</a> with the support of the <a href="http://www.icamericas.net/">Instituto para la Conectividad en las Américas (ICA)</a>.  More presentations and Handouts can be <a href="http://www.wilac.net/modules.php?op=modload&amp;name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=288">downloaded</a> or viewed at my <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/mariobehling">Slideshare account</a>. The <a href="http://www.wilac.net/modules.php?op=modload&amp;name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=284&amp;mode=thread&amp;order=0&amp;thold=0">Spanish versions of the workshops</a> are also available at their site.
</p>
<ul>
	<li>WiMax and non standard solutions<br />
	<a href="http://www.wilac.net/descargas/documentos/tricalcar/materiales_abril2008/odt_en/14_en_wimax-and-non-standard-solutions_handout.odt" alt="Handout" target="_blank">Handout</a> - <a href="http://www.wilac.net/descargas/documentos/tricalcar/materiales_abril2008/odp_en/14_en_WiMAX-no-standard-solutions_presentation.odp" alt="Presentation" target="_blank">Presentation</a></li>
	<li>Energy for telecommunications systems<br />
	<a href="http://www.wilac.net/descargas/documentos/tricalcar/materiales_abril2008/odt_en/15_en_solar-energy-introduction_handout.odt" alt="Handout" target="_blank">Handout - introduction</a> - <a href="http://www.wilac.net/descargas/documentos/tricalcar/materiales_abril2008/odp_en/15_en_solar-energy-introduction_presentation.odp" alt="Presentation" target="_blank">Presentation - Introduction</a><br />
	<a href="http://www.wilac.net/descargas/documentos/tricalcar/materiales_abril2008/odt_en/15_en_solar-energy-dimensioning_handout.odt" alt="Handout" target="_blank">Handout - Dimensioning</a> - <a href="http://www.wilac.net/descargas/documentos/tricalcar/materiales_abril2008/odp_en/15_en_solar-energy-dimensioning_presentation.odp" alt="Presentation" target="_blank">Presentation - Dimensioning</a></li>
	<li>VoIP<br />
	<a href="http://www.wilac.net/descargas/documentos/tricalcar/materiales_abril2008/odt_en/16_en_voip_handout.odt" alt="Handout" target="_blank">Handout</a> - <a href="http://www.wilac.net/descargas/documentos/tricalcar/materiales_abril2008/odp_en/16_en_voip_presentation.odp" alt="Presentation" target="_blank">Presentation</a></li>
	<li>Long distance wireless link<br />
	<a href="http://www.wilac.net/descargas/documentos/tricalcar/materiales_abril2008/odt_en/17_en_long-distance_handout.odt" alt="Handout" target="_blank">Handout</a> - <a href="http://www.wilac.net/descargas/documentos/tricalcar/materiales_abril2008/odp_en/17_en_long-distance-links_presentation.odp" alt="Presentation" target="_blank">Presentation</a></li>
	<li>Community, gender and technology<br />
	<a href="http://www.wilac.net/descargas/documentos/tricalcar/materiales_abril2008/odt_en/18_en_gender-community-ict_handout.odt" alt="Handout" target="_blank">Handout</a> - <a href="http://www.wilac.net/descargas/documentos/tricalcar/materiales_abril2008/odp_en/18_en_gender-community-ict_presentation.odp" alt="Presentation" target="_blank">Presentation</a></li>
	<li>Sustainability strategies<br />
	<a href="http://www.wilac.net/descargas/documentos/tricalcar/materiales_abril2008/odt_en/19_en_sustainability-strategies_handout.odt" alt="Handout" target="_blank">Handout</a> - <a href="http://www.wilac.net/descargas/documentos/tricalcar/materiales_abril2008/odp_en/19_en_sustainability-estrategies_presentation.odp" alt="Presentation" target="_blank">Presentation</a></li>
	<li>Network planning<br />
	<a href="http://www.wilac.net/descargas/documentos/tricalcar/materiales_abril2008/odt_en/20_en_network-planning_handout.odt" alt="Handout" target="_blank">Handout</a> - <a href="http://www.wilac.net/descargas/documentos/tricalcar/materiales_abril2008/odp_en/20_en_network-planning_presentation.odp" alt="Presentation" target="_blank">Presentation</a> 
	</li>
</ul>
<p>
To learn more about Wimax, check out Wikipedia:
</p>
<blockquote>
	<p>
	<b>WiMAX</b>, the <i><b>W</b>orldwide <b>I</b>nteroperability for <b>M</b>icrowave <b>Ac</b>ce<b>s</b>s</i>, is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications" class="mw-redirect" title="Telecommunications">telecommunications</a> technology that provides wireless data in a variety of ways, from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-to-point" title="Point-to-point">point-to-point</a> links to full mobile cellular type access. It is based on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.16" title="IEEE 802.16">IEEE 802.16</a> standard, which is also called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WirelessMAN" class="mw-redirect" title="WirelessMAN">WirelessMAN</a>. The name &quot;WiMAX&quot; was created by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiMAX#WiMAX_Forum">WiMAX Forum</a>,
	which was formed in June 2001 to promote conformance and
	interoperability of the standard. The forum describes WiMAX as &quot;a
	standards-based technology enabling the delivery of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_mile" title="Last mile">last mile</a> wireless broadband access as an alternative to cable and DSL&quot; (and also to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Speed_Packet_Access" title="High Speed Packet Access">High Speed Packet Access</a>).(Version 17 June 2008, at 10:39, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiMAX" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiMAX">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiMAX</a>) 
	</p>
</blockquote>
    ]]></summary>
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<a href="http://www.wilac.net">WILAC</a>, an initiative to promote wireless technolgies in Latin America and the Caribbean (&quot;Tecnologías inalámbricas para el Desarrollo en América Latina y el Caribe&quot;), has published some of their <a href="http://www.wilac.net/modules.php?op=modload&amp;name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=288">training materials</a> in English. I uploaded their presentations to <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/mariobehling">Slideshare</a> for people to be able to embed them into their websites and blogs. Here is the presentation with an introduction to Wimax. 
</p>
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</div>
<blockquote>
	<p>
	As part of the TRICALCAR project a set of 7 brand new modules, which
	we are please to share with the group of technicians part who develop
	the original curriculum of the CWCA project in Africa. We know publish
	this materials in English, as a feedback to the community who has been
	using the original curriculum. The materials are publiched under the
	same formats and conditions of the rest of the TRICALCAR project. (16 Junio, 2008 - 11:00 AM, <a href="http://www.wilac.net/modules.php?op=modload&amp;name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=288">http://www.wilac.net/mod...</a>) 
	</p>
</blockquote>
<p>
The materials were created by different wireless experts including Ermanno Pietrosemoli (well-known for his longrange wireless connections), Alberto Escudero-Pascual, Louise Berthils, Lilian Chamorro, Dafne Sabanes Plou and Alberto Escudero Pascual. 
</p>
<p>
The WILAC website is part of an initiative of <a href="http://www.eslared.org.ve/">ESLARED</a> with the support of the <a href="http://www.icamericas.net/">Instituto para la Conectividad en las Américas (ICA)</a>.  More presentations and Handouts can be <a href="http://www.wilac.net/modules.php?op=modload&amp;name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=288">downloaded</a> or viewed at my <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/mariobehling">Slideshare account</a>. The <a href="http://www.wilac.net/modules.php?op=modload&amp;name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=284&amp;mode=thread&amp;order=0&amp;thold=0">Spanish versions of the workshops</a> are also available at their site.
</p>
<ul>
	<li>WiMax and non standard solutions<br />
	<a href="http://www.wilac.net/descargas/documentos/tricalcar/materiales_abril2008/odt_en/14_en_wimax-and-non-standard-solutions_handout.odt" alt="Handout" target="_blank">Handout</a> - <a href="http://www.wilac.net/descargas/documentos/tricalcar/materiales_abril2008/odp_en/14_en_WiMAX-no-standard-solutions_presentation.odp" alt="Presentation" target="_blank">Presentation</a></li>
	<li>Energy for telecommunications systems<br />
	<a href="http://www.wilac.net/descargas/documentos/tricalcar/materiales_abril2008/odt_en/15_en_solar-energy-introduction_handout.odt" alt="Handout" target="_blank">Handout - introduction</a> - <a href="http://www.wilac.net/descargas/documentos/tricalcar/materiales_abril2008/odp_en/15_en_solar-energy-introduction_presentation.odp" alt="Presentation" target="_blank">Presentation - Introduction</a><br />
	<a href="http://www.wilac.net/descargas/documentos/tricalcar/materiales_abril2008/odt_en/15_en_solar-energy-dimensioning_handout.odt" alt="Handout" target="_blank">Handout - Dimensioning</a> - <a href="http://www.wilac.net/descargas/documentos/tricalcar/materiales_abril2008/odp_en/15_en_solar-energy-dimensioning_presentation.odp" alt="Presentation" target="_blank">Presentation - Dimensioning</a></li>
	<li>VoIP<br />
	<a href="http://www.wilac.net/descargas/documentos/tricalcar/materiales_abril2008/odt_en/16_en_voip_handout.odt" alt="Handout" target="_blank">Handout</a> - <a href="http://www.wilac.net/descargas/documentos/tricalcar/materiales_abril2008/odp_en/16_en_voip_presentation.odp" alt="Presentation" target="_blank">Presentation</a></li>
	<li>Long distance wireless link<br />
	<a href="http://www.wilac.net/descargas/documentos/tricalcar/materiales_abril2008/odt_en/17_en_long-distance_handout.odt" alt="Handout" target="_blank">Handout</a> - <a href="http://www.wilac.net/descargas/documentos/tricalcar/materiales_abril2008/odp_en/17_en_long-distance-links_presentation.odp" alt="Presentation" target="_blank">Presentation</a></li>
	<li>Community, gender and technology<br />
	<a href="http://www.wilac.net/descargas/documentos/tricalcar/materiales_abril2008/odt_en/18_en_gender-community-ict_handout.odt" alt="Handout" target="_blank">Handout</a> - <a href="http://www.wilac.net/descargas/documentos/tricalcar/materiales_abril2008/odp_en/18_en_gender-community-ict_presentation.odp" alt="Presentation" target="_blank">Presentation</a></li>
	<li>Sustainability strategies<br />
	<a href="http://www.wilac.net/descargas/documentos/tricalcar/materiales_abril2008/odt_en/19_en_sustainability-strategies_handout.odt" alt="Handout" target="_blank">Handout</a> - <a href="http://www.wilac.net/descargas/documentos/tricalcar/materiales_abril2008/odp_en/19_en_sustainability-estrategies_presentation.odp" alt="Presentation" target="_blank">Presentation</a></li>
	<li>Network planning<br />
	<a href="http://www.wilac.net/descargas/documentos/tricalcar/materiales_abril2008/odt_en/20_en_network-planning_handout.odt" alt="Handout" target="_blank">Handout</a> - <a href="http://www.wilac.net/descargas/documentos/tricalcar/materiales_abril2008/odp_en/20_en_network-planning_presentation.odp" alt="Presentation" target="_blank">Presentation</a> 
	</li>
</ul>
<p>
To learn more about Wimax, check out Wikipedia:
</p>
<blockquote>
	<p>
	<b>WiMAX</b>, the <i><b>W</b>orldwide <b>I</b>nteroperability for <b>M</b>icrowave <b>Ac</b>ce<b>s</b>s</i>, is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications" class="mw-redirect" title="Telecommunications">telecommunications</a> technology that provides wireless data in a variety of ways, from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-to-point" title="Point-to-point">point-to-point</a> links to full mobile cellular type access. It is based on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.16" title="IEEE 802.16">IEEE 802.16</a> standard, which is also called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WirelessMAN" class="mw-redirect" title="WirelessMAN">WirelessMAN</a>. The name &quot;WiMAX&quot; was created by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiMAX#WiMAX_Forum">WiMAX Forum</a>,
	which was formed in June 2001 to promote conformance and
	interoperability of the standard. The forum describes WiMAX as &quot;a
	standards-based technology enabling the delivery of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_mile" title="Last mile">last mile</a> wireless broadband access as an alternative to cable and DSL&quot; (and also to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Speed_Packet_Access" title="High Speed Packet Access">High Speed Packet Access</a>).(Version 17 June 2008, at 10:39, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiMAX" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiMAX">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiMAX</a>) 
	</p>
</blockquote>
    ]]></content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Open Hardware from Squidbee for Wireless Sensor Networks</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.freifunk.net/2008/open-hardware-squidbee-wireless-sensor-networks" />
    <id>http://blog.freifunk.net/2008/open-hardware-squidbee-wireless-sensor-networks</id>
    <published>2008-06-16T09:49:20+02:00</published>
    <updated>2008-06-16T10:50:33+02:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Mario Behling</name>
    </author>
    <category term="Alicia Asín" />
    <category term="David A.Mellis" />
    <category term="David Cuartielles" />
    <category term="David Gascón" />
    <category term="FOSS Bridge" />
    <category term="freifunk" />
    <category term="Hardware" />
    <category term="libelium" />
    <category term="Marcos Yarza" />
    <category term="Massimo Banzi" />
    <category term="mesh" />
    <category term="Mesh Networks" />
    <category term="meshlium" />
    <category term="Open Hardware" />
    <category term="Osmius" />
    <category term="Peopleware" />
    <category term="squidbee" />
    <category term="Tom Igoe" />
    <category term="University of Zaragoza" />
    <category term="wiki" />
    <category term="Zigbee" />
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>
<a href="http://www.libelium.com/squidbee/"><img border="0" align="left" width="127" src="/files/images/squidbee.png" hspace="5" height="154" /></a>A couple of weeks ago I was talking with <a href="http://blogs.k-ita.de/~alx/?p=41">Alex</a> about <a href="http://www.meshlium.com">meshlium</a>. I found out more about the project now. Last week I did an interview with Jose Luis Marina from <a target="_blank" href="http://www.peopleware.es/" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Peopleware</span></u></a> at a workshop of <a href="http://www.foss-bridge.org">FOSS Bridge</a> in Hanoi. Peopleware develops <a target="_blank" href="http://www.osmius.net/" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Osmius</span></u></a> a very advanced monitoring tool to monitor all kinds of devices. He told me about their idea of using the open <a href="http://www.libelium.com/squidbee/">Squidbee</a> hardware for their sensor networks. They want to be able to transfer data from sensor networks in an easy and affordable way. A scenario I see here is to use mesh networks for the transmission. 
</p>
<blockquote>
	<p>
	<a href="http://www.libelium.com/squidbee/index.php?title=Main_Page"><u><span style="color: #800080">SquidBee</span></u></a> is a project that uses an open hardware design as well as open-source software as a platform for remote control and sensing: &quot;<span>SquidBee is an Open Hardware and Source wireless sensor device. The goal of SquidBee is getting an &quot;open mote&quot; to create Sensor Networks.</span>&quot; SquidBee uses the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zigbee"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">ZigBee</span></u></a> self-organizing low power wireless mesh network protocol. ZigBee operates in the unlicensed 2.4 GHz, 915 MHz and 868 MHz ISM bands with data rates from 20-250 kbit/second, per channel. ZigBee is optimized for super low power operation so that the devices can be operated from battery power for long amounts of time. For long-running outdoor applications, powering the devices from photovoltaic panels would be an obvious technology choice. Using the 1mW XBee power level, the XBee maximum device-to-device range is 100 meters. At the 100mW XBee pro power level, the range is extended to 1KM. Each additional node can extend the range of the mesh network, since data passes through the nodes. (Download, June 16, 2008, <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/260223/">http://lwn.net/Articles/260223/</a>) 
	</p>
</blockquote>
<p>
Behind the project is <a href="http://www.libelium.com/">Libelium Comunicaciones Distribuidas</a>, a SpinOff company of the <a href="http://www.unizar.es">University of Zaragoza</a> (Spain) which has develop the ZigBee communication module. The Libelium team is formed by Marcos Yarza, Alicia Asín and David Gascón. The board has been developed by the Arduino team by David Cuartielles, Massimo Banzi, David A.Mellis and Tom Igoe. They come from different institutions in Spain, Sweden, Italy and New York (compare: <a href="http://www.libelium.com/squidbee/index.php?title=Who_is_behind%3F">http://www.libelium.com/squidbee/index.php?title=Who_is_behind%3F</a>). 
</p>
<p>
<img border="0" width="350" src="/files/images/logo-libelium.png" height="196" />  
</p>
<p>
Some more info from the <a href="http://www.libelium.com/squidbee/">Squidbee wiki</a>: 
</p>
<blockquote>
	<p>
	The main concepts behind SquidBee are: <br />
	* Self-powered <br />
	* Wireless Comunications <br />
	Repeat with me: &quot;Ubiquity, Ubiquity, Ubiquity...&quot; 
	</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
	<p>
	How does SquidBee work?   
	</p>
	<ol>
		<li><b>Acquires </b> values from environment parameters: temperature, humidity, lightness, presence, pressure or (almost!) whatever you can sense. </li>
		<li><b>Operates </b>with these values, when required. </li>
		<li><b>Transmits</b> these values using a low power comsumption wireless technology (ZigBee). </li>
		<li><b>Sleeps</b> until next timeout and repeats from the first stept.</li>
	</ol>
	<p>
	<img border="0" align="right" width="150" src="/files/images/squidBee-open11.jpg" hspace="5" height="477" />Second step is not always necessary, depending of the calculations needed it may be better to make them in receiver computer to save nodes energy. 
	</p>
	<p>
	An open mote? What does it really mean? It means every part of the mote is accessible and can be studied, changed, personalized, ... From the schematic circuit to the source code of the programs that are running inside the mote. 
	</p>
	<p>
	Who is interested in SquidBee? Anybody who is researching in the environment monitoring field. This is also an educational project so that universities can offer to the students a multi-learning device. With SquidBee people can learn at the same time electronic, programation, communications... and everything in just one device. 
	</p>
	<p>
	Who is supporting SquiBee? The board inside SquidBee has been developed by the Arduino team. The communications module wich lets  the node transmit through a ZigBee module has been developed by Libelium. Both components are open hardware and they have a really strong community support. A specialized wiki related to SquidBee and the Sensor Networks  will be created soon. There, all the Arduino and Libelium tutorials and examples will be shared and other research teams will be able to exchange their knowledge with the community. 
	</p>
	<p>
	What can I do with SquidBee? The main concept is: &quot;sense what you want where you want and transmit it&quot;. 
	</p>
	<p>
	Two configurations of SquidBee? What is it exactly? Using the same board and communications module we have created 2 kinds of SquidBee: the sensor mote and the gateway. The first one is the self-powered sensor mote and the second is the computer USB connected receiver. 
	</p>
	<p>
	Can I integrate SquidBee into a wireless 802.11 Mesh network? Yes! We have also developed an outdoor Mesh Router: MeshLium which you can use to collect the information using the ZigBee protocol and transmit it to the mesh network using the Wifi technology (802.11). (Version, May 15, 2008, 15.22, <a href="http://www.libelium.com/squidbee/">http://www.libelium.com/squidbee/</a>) 
	</p>
</blockquote>
    ]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>
<a href="http://www.libelium.com/squidbee/"><img border="0" align="left" width="127" src="/files/images/squidbee.png" hspace="5" height="154" /></a>A couple of weeks ago I was talking with <a href="http://blogs.k-ita.de/~alx/?p=41">Alex</a> about <a href="http://www.meshlium.com">meshlium</a>. I found out more about the project now. Last week I did an interview with Jose Luis Marina from <a target="_blank" href="http://www.peopleware.es/" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Peopleware</span></u></a> at a workshop of <a href="http://www.foss-bridge.org">FOSS Bridge</a> in Hanoi. Peopleware develops <a target="_blank" href="http://www.osmius.net/" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Osmius</span></u></a> a very advanced monitoring tool to monitor all kinds of devices. He told me about their idea of using the open <a href="http://www.libelium.com/squidbee/">Squidbee</a> hardware for their sensor networks. They want to be able to transfer data from sensor networks in an easy and affordable way. A scenario I see here is to use mesh networks for the transmission. 
</p>
<blockquote>
	<p>
	<a href="http://www.libelium.com/squidbee/index.php?title=Main_Page"><u><span style="color: #800080">SquidBee</span></u></a> is a project that uses an open hardware design as well as open-source software as a platform for remote control and sensing: &quot;<span>SquidBee is an Open Hardware and Source wireless sensor device. The goal of SquidBee is getting an &quot;open mote&quot; to create Sensor Networks.</span>&quot; SquidBee uses the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zigbee"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">ZigBee</span></u></a> self-organizing low power wireless mesh network protocol. ZigBee operates in the unlicensed 2.4 GHz, 915 MHz and 868 MHz ISM bands with data rates from 20-250 kbit/second, per channel. ZigBee is optimized for super low power operation so that the devices can be operated from battery power for long amounts of time. For long-running outdoor applications, powering the devices from photovoltaic panels would be an obvious technology choice. Using the 1mW XBee power level, the XBee maximum device-to-device range is 100 meters. At the 100mW XBee pro power level, the range is extended to 1KM. Each additional node can extend the range of the mesh network, since data passes through the nodes. (Download, June 16, 2008, <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/260223/">http://lwn.net/Articles/260223/</a>) 
	</p>
</blockquote>
<p>
Behind the project is <a href="http://www.libelium.com/">Libelium Comunicaciones Distribuidas</a>, a SpinOff company of the <a href="http://www.unizar.es">University of Zaragoza</a> (Spain) which has develop the ZigBee communication module. The Libelium team is formed by Marcos Yarza, Alicia Asín and David Gascón. The board has been developed by the Arduino team by David Cuartielles, Massimo Banzi, David A.Mellis and Tom Igoe. They come from different institutions in Spain, Sweden, Italy and New York (compare: <a href="http://www.libelium.com/squidbee/index.php?title=Who_is_behind%3F">http://www.libelium.com/squidbee/index.php?title=Who_is_behind%3F</a>). 
</p>
<p>
<img border="0" width="350" src="/files/images/logo-libelium.png" height="196" />  
</p>
<p>
Some more info from the <a href="http://www.libelium.com/squidbee/">Squidbee wiki</a>: 
</p>
<blockquote>
	<p>
	The main concepts behind SquidBee are: <br />
	* Self-powered <br />
	* Wireless Comunications <br />
	Repeat with me: &quot;Ubiquity, Ubiquity, Ubiquity...&quot; 
	</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
	<p>
	How does SquidBee work?   
	</p>
	<ol>
		<li><b>Acquires </b> values from environment parameters: temperature, humidity, lightness, presence, pressure or (almost!) whatever you can sense. </li>
		<li><b>Operates </b>with these values, when required. </li>
		<li><b>Transmits</b> these values using a low power comsumption wireless technology (ZigBee). </li>
		<li><b>Sleeps</b> until next timeout and repeats from the first stept.</li>
	</ol>
	<p>
	<img border="0" align="right" width="150" src="/files/images/squidBee-open11.jpg" hspace="5" height="477" />Second step is not always necessary, depending of the calculations needed it may be better to make them in receiver computer to save nodes energy. 
	</p>
	<p>
	An open mote? What does it really mean? It means every part of the mote is accessible and can be studied, changed, personalized, ... From the schematic circuit to the source code of the programs that are running inside the mote. 
	</p>
	<p>
	Who is interested in SquidBee? Anybody who is researching in the environment monitoring field. This is also an educational project so that universities can offer to the students a multi-learning device. With SquidBee people can learn at the same time electronic, programation, communications... and everything in just one device. 
	</p>
	<p>
	Who is supporting SquiBee? The board inside SquidBee has been developed by the Arduino team. The communications module wich lets  the node transmit through a ZigBee module has been developed by Libelium. Both components are open hardware and they have a really strong community support. A specialized wiki related to SquidBee and the Sensor Networks  will be created soon. There, all the Arduino and Libelium tutorials and examples will be shared and other research teams will be able to exchange their knowledge with the community. 
	</p>
	<p>
	What can I do with SquidBee? The main concept is: &quot;sense what you want where you want and transmit it&quot;. 
	</p>
	<p>
	Two configurations of SquidBee? What is it exactly? Using the same board and communications module we have created 2 kinds of SquidBee: the sensor mote and the gateway. The first one is the self-powered sensor mote and the second is the computer USB connected receiver. 
	</p>
	<p>
	Can I integrate SquidBee into a wireless 802.11 Mesh network? Yes! We have also developed an outdoor Mesh Router: MeshLium which you can use to collect the information using the ZigBee protocol and transmit it to the mesh network using the Wifi technology (802.11). (Version, May 15, 2008, 15.22, <a href="http://www.libelium.com/squidbee/">http://www.libelium.com/squidbee/</a>) 
	</p>
</blockquote>
    ]]></content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Journal for Community Informatics Special on Wireless Networking for Communities, Citizens and the Public Interest</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.freifunk.net/2008/journal-community-informatics-special-wireless-networking-communities-citizens-and-public-inter" />
    <id>http://blog.freifunk.net/2008/journal-community-informatics-special-wireless-networking-communities-citizens-and-public-inter</id>
    <published>2008-06-11T12:09:19+02:00</published>
    <updated>2008-06-11T12:09:19+02:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Mario Behling</name>
    </author>
    <category term="Alison Powell" />
    <category term="Andrea H Tapia" />
    <category term="community informatics" />
    <category term="free networks" />
    <category term="free wireless" />
    <category term="freifunk" />
    <category term="Hanna Hye-Na Cho" />
    <category term="Julio Angel Ortiz" />
    <category term="Kim Dara" />
    <category term="Laura Forlano" />
    <category term="Marco Adria" />
    <category term="Michael Gurstein" />
    <category term="Philosophie" />
    <category term="Praxis" />
    <category term="Sascha D. Meinrath" />
    <category term="Seán Ó Siochrú" />
    <category term="Vidyut Samanta" />
    <category term="wireless" />
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p class="p3">
The Journal &quot;<a href="http://ci-journal.net">Community informatics</a>&quot; has published a special about <a href="http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/issue/view/19">Wireless Networking for Communities, Citizens and the Public Interest</a>. Authors include Michael Gurstein, Alison Powell, Sascha D. Meinrath, Marco Adria, Hanna Hye-Na Cho, Laura Forlano, Andrea H Tapia, Julio Angel Ortiz, Kim Dara, Seán Ó Siochrú, Vidyut Samanta, Chase Laurelle Alexandria Knowles, Jeff Burke, Fabian Wagmister, Deborah Estrin, Ermanno Pietrosemoli, Andrew Clement, Amelia Potter,  Alisha Bhagat.
</p>
<p class="p3">
<img src="/files/images/pageHeaderTitleImage.gif" alt="http://ci-journal.net" height="78" width="500" /> 
</p>
<blockquote>
	<p class="p3">
	This special issue documents the state of the art in
	research on community wireless applications, and presents assessments
	of community wireless projects in a variety of local contexts: from
	large urban centers in North America to rural locations in Asia and
	Latin America. Together, the papers and field notes in this special
	issue reflect on a community-centric approach to communications
	infrastructure development. These works describe the challenges – both
	practical and theoretical – that face community wireless networking, as
	well as the implications many of these projects have to support social
	and economic justice around the globe.
	</p>
	<p class="p3">
	The papers in this special issue demonstrate that
	community-based approaches to Wifi development are part of a broader
	integration of technology, organizational capacity, and local culture.
	Social goals are part of most community Wifi projects, and integrating
	these goals and the technical structures of Wifi networks is part of
	what makes many community Wifi projects successful. Both full papers
	and field notes explore this integration and focus on various facets of
	the community wireless networking movement.
	</p>
	<p class="p3">
	The papers included in this issue explore different
	theoretical approaches that help situate community wireless networking
	as social and technical phenomena. Adria provides a meta-theoretical
	discussion of how Wifi networks reconfigure space and time -- using the
	medium theory of McLuhan and Virilio to suggest that Wifi networks have
	the potential to integrate local geographical and temporal experiences.
	</p>
	<p class="p3">
	The other papers use empirical approaches to assess the
	social aspects of community wireless networking. Tapia and Ortiz
	explore the claims made by operators of municipal-community networks
	that these projects are addressing the digital divide. Using a textual
	analysis of claims made in documents including “press releases,
	requests for proposals, letters of intent, and other official policy
	documents,” as well as interviews with key informants in US
	municipal-community projects, they interrogate the extent to which
	networks facilitate meaningful digital inclusion.
	</p>
	<p class="p3">
	Both Cho and Forlano explore the social aspects of
	community wireless networking in more detail: Cho focusing on the
	development of networks and Forlano on their use. Cho reveals how the
	development of community wireless networks (CWNs) builds social capital
	for the participants. She develops the concept of “place-peer
	community” to explain how Wifi projects define “community.” Cho also
	describes how contributions to community wireless networks help to
	develop ‘civic bandwidth’ among their contributors. Like Tapia and
	Oritz, she identifies CWNs as developing a discourse that connects the
	development of digital information and communication technologies with
	efforts to improve communities.
	</p>
	<p class="p3">
	Forlano explores the new social relationships created
	through the everyday use of community-based Wifi networks, examining
	the gap between media representations of Wifi as an “anytime, anywhere”
	solution and the socio-cultural practices of people using free Wifi
	hotspots in New York City. As she discovers, freelance workers use Wifi
	hotspots to create temporary working environments that eliminate some
	of the isolation of working without a fixed office, while providing a
	basic infrastructure including network connectivity and electrical
	power. These Wifi hotspots support communities of mobile, flexible
	workers who establish relationships with a particular place and its
	people. Together with Cho’s insights about the social capital mobilized
	through the process of developing community Wifi networks, this
	suggests that Wifi hotspots may have a unique role to play in
	redefining the experiences of community in urban areas.
	</p>
	<p class="p3">
	The field notes in this issue offer a window into the
	realities of local experiments with Wifi technology. The impacts of the
	projects they document depend on the local political context (Clement),
	the community’s capacity (Dara, Dimanche, and O Siochru; Bhagat), the
	potential for community and industry partnerships to create new ways
	for community members to gather data and to aggregate it (Samanta), and
	how changing our assumptions about the role of wireless infrastructure
	can open up new opportunities for affordable broadband (Pietrosemoli).
	</p>
	<p class="p3">
	These notes highlight how local contexts influence what
	is considered the “public interest” and how community wireless projects
	can best serve the general public. For example, Clement criticizes the
	Toronto Hydro Wireless project, considered a technical success, because
	its governance structure forces the network to be operated for-profit
	rather than as a public service. Samanta provides an outline of some
	potential social uses for an experimental wireless network that could
	aggregate data from numerous wireless devices. Some suggested uses of
	this network include collecting ambient audio data that, when mapped,
	could provide quality of life indicators.
	</p>
	<p class="p3">
	In the global South, the public interest is served by the
	communication and applications made possible by wireless networks
	established in previously un-served areas. In these contexts as well,
	important challenges also emerge. Bhagat assesses the results of a mesh
	network built in Mahavilachchiya village where a local entrepreneur
	developed a wireless network as an extension of a computer school where
	local children learned ICT skills. This Wifi connectivity project
	extended internet access to homes, and encouraged more local residents
	to use the internet. However, Bhagat also notes that connecting the
	village to the internet may have negative impacts as well: introducing
	new forms of media and new social expectations to the village and
	disrupting historical cultural norms.
	</p>
	<p class="p3">
	Dara, Dimanche and O Siochru explore how local political
	and social contexts impact the design and deployment phase of one local
	wireless network. From the challenging context of Cambodia, they report
	on the first phase of the I-REACH project, a distributed mesh network
	providing internet connectivity and local media using solar-powered
	devices. The project’s challenges in obtaining permission from local
	government, sourcing material, and recruiting qualified local staff and
	contractors underscores the notion that community-based infrastructure
	implementation is a social (and an institutional) as well as a
	technical endeavor.
	</p>
	<p class="p3">
	Ermanno Pietrosemoli and his international team of Wifi
	researchers have deployed wireless links spanning hundreds of
	kilometers. By proofing out a methodology for creating low-cost,
	long-distance Wifi, Pietrosemoli forces us to question the notion that
	Wifi is just for local networking. As a potential backhaul solution,
	Wifi may offer an exceptional value for communities and constituencies
	that would not otherwise be able to afford broadband connectivity.
	</p>
	Across these paper and notes, a common thread linking the
	articles is the importance of establishing local strategies for
	leveraging wireless technologies in the public interest. (Alison Powell, Sascha D. Meinrath, Introduction to the Special Issue: Wireless Networking for Communities, Citizens and the Public Interest, Vol. 4 No. 1, 2008, <a href="http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/490/389" title="http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/490/389">http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/490/389</a>)
</blockquote>
    ]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p class="p3">
The Journal &quot;<a href="http://ci-journal.net">Community informatics</a>&quot; has published a special about <a href="http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/issue/view/19">Wireless Networking for Communities, Citizens and the Public Interest</a>. Authors include Michael Gurstein, Alison Powell, Sascha D. Meinrath, Marco Adria, Hanna Hye-Na Cho, Laura Forlano, Andrea H Tapia, Julio Angel Ortiz, Kim Dara, Seán Ó Siochrú, Vidyut Samanta, Chase Laurelle Alexandria Knowles, Jeff Burke, Fabian Wagmister, Deborah Estrin, Ermanno Pietrosemoli, Andrew Clement, Amelia Potter,  Alisha Bhagat.
</p>
<p class="p3">
<img src="/files/images/pageHeaderTitleImage.gif" alt="http://ci-journal.net" height="78" width="500" /> 
</p>
<blockquote>
	<p class="p3">
	This special issue documents the state of the art in
	research on community wireless applications, and presents assessments
	of community wireless projects in a variety of local contexts: from
	large urban centers in North America to rural locations in Asia and
	Latin America. Together, the papers and field notes in this special
	issue reflect on a community-centric approach to communications
	infrastructure development. These works describe the challenges – both
	practical and theoretical – that face community wireless networking, as
	well as the implications many of these projects have to support social
	and economic justice around the globe.
	</p>
	<p class="p3">
	The papers in this special issue demonstrate that
	community-based approaches to Wifi development are part of a broader
	integration of technology, organizational capacity, and local culture.
	Social goals are part of most community Wifi projects, and integrating
	these goals and the technical structures of Wifi networks is part of
	what makes many community Wifi projects successful. Both full papers
	and field notes explore this integration and focus on various facets of
	the community wireless networking movement.
	</p>
	<p class="p3">
	The papers included in this issue explore different
	theoretical approaches that help situate community wireless networking
	as social and technical phenomena. Adria provides a meta-theoretical
	discussion of how Wifi networks reconfigure space and time -- using the
	medium theory of McLuhan and Virilio to suggest that Wifi networks have
	the potential to integrate local geographical and temporal experiences.
	</p>
	<p class="p3">
	The other papers use empirical approaches to assess the
	social aspects of community wireless networking. Tapia and Ortiz
	explore the claims made by operators of municipal-community networks
	that these projects are addressing the digital divide. Using a textual
	analysis of claims made in documents including “press releases,
	requests for proposals, letters of intent, and other official policy
	documents,” as well as interviews with key informants in US
	municipal-community projects, they interrogate the extent to which
	networks facilitate meaningful digital inclusion.
	</p>
	<p class="p3">
	Both Cho and Forlano explore the social aspects of
	community wireless networking in more detail: Cho focusing on the
	development of networks and Forlano on their use. Cho reveals how the
	development of community wireless networks (CWNs) builds social capital
	for the participants. She develops the concept of “place-peer
	community” to explain how Wifi projects define “community.” Cho also
	describes how contributions to community wireless networks help to
	develop ‘civic bandwidth’ among their contributors. Like Tapia and
	Oritz, she identifies CWNs as developing a discourse that connects the
	development of digital information and communication technologies with
	efforts to improve communities.
	</p>
	<p class="p3">
	Forlano explores the new social relationships created
	through the everyday use of community-based Wifi networks, examining
	the gap between media representations of Wifi as an “anytime, anywhere”
	solution and the socio-cultural practices of people using free Wifi
	hotspots in New York City. As she discovers, freelance workers use Wifi
	hotspots to create temporary working environments that eliminate some
	of the isolation of working without a fixed office, while providing a
	basic infrastructure including network connectivity and electrical
	power. These Wifi hotspots support communities of mobile, flexible
	workers who establish relationships with a particular place and its
	people. Together with Cho’s insights about the social capital mobilized
	through the process of developing community Wifi networks, this
	suggests that Wifi hotspots may have a unique role to play in
	redefining the experiences of community in urban areas.
	</p>
	<p class="p3">
	The field notes in this issue offer a window into the
	realities of local experiments with Wifi technology. The impacts of the
	projects they document depend on the local political context (Clement),
	the community’s capacity (Dara, Dimanche, and O Siochru; Bhagat), the
	potential for community and industry partnerships to create new ways
	for community members to gather data and to aggregate it (Samanta), and
	how changing our assumptions about the role of wireless infrastructure
	can open up new opportunities for affordable broadband (Pietrosemoli).
	</p>
	<p class="p3">
	These notes highlight how local contexts influence what
	is considered the “public interest” and how community wireless projects
	can best serve the general public. For example, Clement criticizes the
	Toronto Hydro Wireless project, considered a technical success, because
	its governance structure forces the network to be operated for-profit
	rather than as a public service. Samanta provides an outline of some
	potential social uses for an experimental wireless network that could
	aggregate data from numerous wireless devices. Some suggested uses of
	this network include collecting ambient audio data that, when mapped,
	could provide quality of life indicators.
	</p>
	<p class="p3">
	In the global South, the public interest is served by the
	communication and applications made possible by wireless networks
	established in previously un-served areas. In these contexts as well,
	important challenges also emerge. Bhagat assesses the results of a mesh
	network built in Mahavilachchiya village where a local entrepreneur
	developed a wireless network as an extension of a computer school where
	local children learned ICT skills. This Wifi connectivity project
	extended internet access to homes, and encouraged more local residents
	to use the internet. However, Bhagat also notes that connecting the
	village to the internet may have negative impacts as well: introducing
	new forms of media and new social expectations to the village and
	disrupting historical cultural norms.
	</p>
	<p class="p3">
	Dara, Dimanche and O Siochru explore how local political
	and social contexts impact the design and deployment phase of one local
	wireless network. From the challenging context of Cambodia, they report
	on the first phase of the I-REACH project, a distributed mesh network
	providing internet connectivity and local media using solar-powered
	devices. The project’s challenges in obtaining permission from local
	government, sourcing material, and recruiting qualified local staff and
	contractors underscores the notion that community-based infrastructure
	implementation is a social (and an institutional) as well as a
	technical endeavor.
	</p>
	<p class="p3">
	Ermanno Pietrosemoli and his international team of Wifi
	researchers have deployed wireless links spanning hundreds of
	kilometers. By proofing out a methodology for creating low-cost,
	long-distance Wifi, Pietrosemoli forces us to question the notion that
	Wifi is just for local networking. As a potential backhaul solution,
	Wifi may offer an exceptional value for communities and constituencies
	that would not otherwise be able to afford broadband connectivity.
	</p>
	Across these paper and notes, a common thread linking the
	articles is the importance of establishing local strategies for
	leveraging wireless technologies in the public interest. (Alison Powell, Sascha D. Meinrath, Introduction to the Special Issue: Wireless Networking for Communities, Citizens and the Public Interest, Vol. 4 No. 1, 2008, <a href="http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/490/389" title="http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/490/389">http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/490/389</a>)
</blockquote>
    ]]></content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Global Freifunk Newswire back online</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.freifunk.net/2008/global-freifunk-newswire-back-online" />
    <id>http://blog.freifunk.net/2008/global-freifunk-newswire-back-online</id>
    <published>2008-06-02T21:31:29+02:00</published>
    <updated>2008-06-02T21:36:13+02:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Mario Behling</name>
    </author>
    <category term="Alex Antener" />
    <category term="blogs" />
    <category term="Community" />
    <category term="free networks" />
    <category term="freie netze" />
    <category term="freifunk" />
    <category term="freifunkblogs" />
    <category term="global" />
    <category term="global community" />
    <category term="global newswire" />
    <category term="international" />
    <category term="newswire" />
    <category term="Sascha Tamim Asfandiar" />
    <category term="Website" />
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>
<a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Globe.png"><img src="/files/images/Globe_0.png" align="left" height="129" hspace="6" width="130" /></a> The <a href="http://global.freifunk.net/">global freifunk newswire</a> is back online. There were some problems with the newswire server in Switzerland. <a href="http://alexantener.com/">Alex Antener</a> who is the main admin taking care of the server now switched to another provider. Unfortunately we lost some updates. I put in recently added feeds again. In case I forgot a feed or if you have suggestions for a new feed please drop <a href="http://www.mariobehling.de/">me</a> a line by using the contact form at <a href="http://kontakt.freifunk.net" title="http://kontakt.freifunk.net">http://kontakt.freifunk.net</a>. Thanks for supporting me in keeping the service running to <a href="http://www.lix.cc/">Alex Antener</a> and <a href="http://www.asfandiar.com/">Sascha Tamim Asfandiar</a>!<span xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" property="dc:title"></span>
</p>
    ]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>
<a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Globe.png"><img src="/files/images/Globe_0.png" align="left" height="129" hspace="6" width="130" /></a> The <a href="http://global.freifunk.net/">global freifunk newswire</a> is back online. There were some problems with the newswire server in Switzerland. <a href="http://alexantener.com/">Alex Antener</a> who is the main admin taking care of the server now switched to another provider. Unfortunately we lost some updates. I put in recently added feeds again. In case I forgot a feed or if you have suggestions for a new feed please drop <a href="http://www.mariobehling.de/">me</a> a line by using the contact form at <a href="http://kontakt.freifunk.net" title="http://kontakt.freifunk.net">http://kontakt.freifunk.net</a>. Thanks for supporting me in keeping the service running to <a href="http://www.lix.cc/">Alex Antener</a> and <a href="http://www.asfandiar.com/">Sascha Tamim Asfandiar</a>!<span xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" property="dc:title"></span>
</p>
    ]]></content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Anfrage des Berliner Senats - Auf welchen öffentlichen Gebäuden stehen Freifunk AP&#039;s?</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.freifunk.net/2008/anfrage-des-berliner-senats-auf-welchen-%C3%B6ffentlichen-geb%C3%A4uden-stehen-freifunk-ap039s" />
    <id>http://blog.freifunk.net/2008/anfrage-des-berliner-senats-auf-welchen-%C3%B6ffentlichen-geb%C3%A4uden-stehen-freifunk-ap039s</id>
    <published>2008-05-27T12:01:17+02:00</published>
    <updated>2008-06-01T15:40:45+02:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Christian Heise</name>
    </author>
    <category term="Anfrage" />
    <category term="berlin" />
    <category term="berliner senat" />
    <category term="bürgernetz" />
    <category term="Community" />
    <category term="dathe-oberschule" />
    <category term="freie netze" />
    <category term="freie netzwerke" />
    <category term="freifunk" />
    <category term="freifunknetz" />
    <category term="Friedrichshain" />
    <category term="grüne" />
    <category term="kreuzberg" />
    <category term="Netzwerk" />
    <category term="öffentlicher raum" />
    <category term="Senat" />
    <category term="wriezener park" />
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>
Heute habe ich eine Anfrage des Berliner Senats erhalten. &quot;Er fragt freifunk&quot;:
</p>
<p>
&quot;auf welchen Standorten von Gebäuden in Verantwortung der Senatsverwaltungen, der BIM (Berliner Immobilienmanagenment GmbH), der Bezirke, sowie der landeseigenen Wohnungsbaugesellschaften befinden sich Access Points(o.ä.) die dem Berliner Freifunknetz dienen.<br />
<br />
Die Anfrage wurde von der Fraktion Bündnis 90/Die Grünen an den Berliner Senat gestellt und von diesem an die Verantwortlichen der Bezirke weitergeleitet in deren Auftrag wir handeln.&quot;<br />
</p>
<p>
Bisher kommen wir &quot;nur&quot; auf:<br />
1. Dathe-Oberschule in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg<br />
2. zukünftige Wriezener Park
</p>
<p>
Kirchen sind in dem Fall keine öffentlichen Gebäude. 
</p>
<p>
Kennt jemand noch weitere Standorte von Freifunk-AP's auf/in öffentlichen Einrichtungen/Gebäuden? Antworten bitte gegebenenfalls auch per Mail an christian.heise (ät) e-demokratie.org.
</p>
<p>
Das Ergebnis des Schriftverkehrs werde ich hier noch mal gesondert veröffentlichen.
</p>
    ]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>
Heute habe ich eine Anfrage des Berliner Senats erhalten. &quot;Er fragt freifunk&quot;:
</p>
<p>
&quot;auf welchen Standorten von Gebäuden in Verantwortung der Senatsverwaltungen, der BIM (Berliner Immobilienmanagenment GmbH), der Bezirke, sowie der landeseigenen Wohnungsbaugesellschaften befinden sich Access Points(o.ä.) die dem Berliner Freifunknetz dienen.<br />
<br />
Die Anfrage wurde von der Fraktion Bündnis 90/Die Grünen an den Berliner Senat gestellt und von diesem an die Verantwortlichen der Bezirke weitergeleitet in deren Auftrag wir handeln.&quot;<br />
</p>
<p>
Bisher kommen wir &quot;nur&quot; auf:<br />
1. Dathe-Oberschule in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg<br />
2. zukünftige Wriezener Park
</p>
<p>
Kirchen sind in dem Fall keine öffentlichen Gebäude. 
</p>
<p>
Kennt jemand noch weitere Standorte von Freifunk-AP's auf/in öffentlichen Einrichtungen/Gebäuden? Antworten bitte gegebenenfalls auch per Mail an christian.heise (ät) e-demokratie.org.
</p>
<p>
Das Ergebnis des Schriftverkehrs werde ich hier noch mal gesondert veröffentlichen.
</p>
    ]]></content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>FFLuCI the Next Generation Lua web interface für OpenWRT von Steven Cyrus Barth</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.freifunk.net/2008/ffluci-next-generation-lua-web-interface-f%C3%BCr-openwrt-von-steven-cyrus-barth" />
    <id>http://blog.freifunk.net/2008/ffluci-next-generation-lua-web-interface-f%C3%BCr-openwrt-von-steven-cyrus-barth</id>
    <published>2008-05-27T02:25:22+02:00</published>
    <updated>2008-05-27T09:56:38+02:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Mario Behling</name>
    </author>
    <category term="Bastian Bittorf" />
    <category term="Cyrus" />
    <category term="FFLuci" />
    <category term="framework" />
    <category term="free software" />
    <category term="freie Software" />
    <category term="freifunk" />
    <category term="freifunk firmware" />
    <category term="halle" />
    <category term="lua" />
    <category term="Luci" />
    <category term="mvc framework" />
    <category term="openwrt" />
    <category term="Software" />
    <category term="Steven Cyrus Barth" />
    <category term="Video" />
    <category term="video" />
    <category term="videoblog" />
    <category term="videolog" />
    <category term="vlog" />
    <category term="web interface" />
    <category term="xwrt" />
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>
Steven Cyrus Barth im Gespräch mit Bastian Bittorf über das Freifunk-Luci-Interface für OpenWRT.
</p>
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<a href="http://www.vimeo.com/1068368?pg=embed&amp;sec=1068368">Luci-Interface für OpenWRT von Steven Cyrus Barth</a> from <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/user501787?pg=embed&amp;sec=1068368">Mario Behling</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com?pg=embed&amp;sec=1068368">Vimeo</a>.
</p>
<p>
Some more info in English: FFLuCI is a Lua MVC-Framework for Freifunk with templating support. There are 
working configuration pages for many system, network, services and wifi settings. Please visit <a href="http://luci.freifunk-halle.net/" target="_blank">http://luci.freifunk-halle.net</a> for an overview of functions, screenshots, tutorials, SVN URL and snapshot images for Atheros and Broadcom.
</p>
<p>
Steven Cyrus started to develop Luci because he was not satisfied projects like XWRT implemented things. He had a look at the X-WRT Lua files in their repository first, but what was missing was a clear abstraction layer and templating support so I decided to build everything from scratch. According to Cyrus - X-WRT has a very nice UI written in shell code but there are only limited capabilities of this scripting language and so &quot;it is time<br />
to bring this thing to the next level using OOP and such nifty stuff.&quot; 
</p>
<p>
Luci already has a number of working configuration pages. There are more - or in a few cases less - working configuration pages in (for now) German titles and descriptions for the:
</p>
<ul>
	<li>Ethernet Switch</li>
	<li>Ethernet Interfaces</li>
	<li>DHCP-Server</li>
	<li>PPPoE/PPTP</li>
	<li>Static Routes</li>
	<li>Portforwarding</li>
	<li>Firewall</li>
	<li>QoS</li>
	<li>Wifi Devices</li>
	<li>Wifi Networks</li>
	<li>OLSR + Plugins</li>
	<li>FFLuci itself</li>
	<li>Package Management</li>
	<li>Root Password and SSH-Public Keys</li>
	<li>Mount Points for external drives</li>
	<li>HTTP-Server</li>
	<li>SSH-Server</li>
	<li>Dnsmasq</li>
</ul>
<p>
Also there are a few public status pages for basic system information, WLAN-Scan, Contact data and OLSR a bit like those in the Freifunk Firmware. Have a look at the screenshots here: <a href="http://firmware.freifunk-halle.net/ffluci/screenshots" target="_blank">http://firmware.freifunk-halle<wbr></wbr>.net/ffluci/screenshots</a><br />
<br />
Configuration Bind Interface (CBI):<br />
You just describe the data model of the UCI file and Luci does the rest for you: It will create the HTML-form, parse and validate the user input and write the configuration data to UCI. So no need to redo all these things on every configuration page again and again. It also supports basic field dependencies, dynamic validation functions, section creation, deletion and more. See an example here: <a href="http://wiki.freifunk-halle.net/Luci:WritingModules#CBI_models" target="_blank">http://wiki.freifunk-halle.net<wbr></wbr>/Luci:WritingModules#CBI<wbr></wbr>_models</a>
</p>
<p>
Privilege dropping:<br />
To avoid remote exploits (like those in older versions of the Freifunk Firmware) FFLuCI will set the UID/GID of pages running in the main public non-protected section to nobody/nogroup. There are many things left to do like porting over dhcpsplash, accounting, statistics and more to Kamikaze. Contributors are welcome.
</p>
<p>
<img src="/files/images/admin-index-luci.png" height="302" width="500" /> 
</p>
<p>
Links: 
</p>
<ul>
	<li><a href="http://luci.freifunk-halle.net/" target="_blank">http://luci.freifunk-halle.net</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://firmware.freifunk.net">Freifunk Firmware</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://x-wrt.org/" onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','res','1','')" class="l">Web interface for OpenWrt and more - X-Wrt.org</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://olsr.org">olsr.org</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://open-mesh.net">B.A.T.M.A.N.</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://openwrt.org">OpenWRT</a></li>
</ul>
    ]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>
Steven Cyrus Barth im Gespräch mit Bastian Bittorf über das Freifunk-Luci-Interface für OpenWRT.
</p>
<p>
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<a href="http://www.vimeo.com/1068368?pg=embed&amp;sec=1068368">Luci-Interface für OpenWRT von Steven Cyrus Barth</a> from <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/user501787?pg=embed&amp;sec=1068368">Mario Behling</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com?pg=embed&amp;sec=1068368">Vimeo</a>.
</p>
<p>
Some more info in English: FFLuCI is a Lua MVC-Framework for Freifunk with templating support. There are 
working configuration pages for many system, network, services and wifi settings. Please visit <a href="http://luci.freifunk-halle.net/" target="_blank">http://luci.freifunk-halle.net</a> for an overview of functions, screenshots, tutorials, SVN URL and snapshot images for Atheros and Broadcom.
</p>
<p>
Steven Cyrus started to develop Luci because he was not satisfied projects like XWRT implemented things. He had a look at the X-WRT Lua files in their repository first, but what was missing was a clear abstraction layer and templating support so I decided to build everything from scratch. According to Cyrus - X-WRT has a very nice UI written in shell code but there are only limited capabilities of this scripting language and so &quot;it is time<br />
to bring this thing to the next level using OOP and such nifty stuff.&quot; 
</p>
<p>
Luci already has a number of working configuration pages. There are more - or in a few cases less - working configuration pages in (for now) German titles and descriptions for the:
</p>
<ul>
	<li>Ethernet Switch</li>
	<li>Ethernet Interfaces</li>
	<li>DHCP-Server</li>
	<li>PPPoE/PPTP</li>
	<li>Static Routes</li>
	<li>Portforwarding</li>
	<li>Firewall</li>
	<li>QoS</li>
	<li>Wifi Devices</li>
	<li>Wifi Networks</li>
	<li>OLSR + Plugins</li>
	<li>FFLuci itself</li>
	<li>Package Management</li>
	<li>Root Password and SSH-Public Keys</li>
	<li>Mount Points for external drives</li>
	<li>HTTP-Server</li>
	<li>SSH-Server</li>
	<li>Dnsmasq</li>
</ul>
<p>
Also there are a few public status pages for basic system information, WLAN-Scan, Contact data and OLSR a bit like those in the Freifunk Firmware. Have a look at the screenshots here: <a href="http://firmware.freifunk-halle.net/ffluci/screenshots" target="_blank">http://firmware.freifunk-halle<wbr></wbr>.net/ffluci/screenshots</a><br />
<br />
Configuration Bind Interface (CBI):<br />
You just describe the data model of the UCI file and Luci does the rest for you: It will create the HTML-form, parse and validate the user input and write the configuration data to UCI. So no need to redo all these things on every configuration page again and again. It also supports basic field dependencies, dynamic validation functions, section creation, deletion and more. See an example here: <a href="http://wiki.freifunk-halle.net/Luci:WritingModules#CBI_models" target="_blank">http://wiki.freifunk-halle.net<wbr></wbr>/Luci:WritingModules#CBI<wbr></wbr>_models</a>
</p>
<p>
Privilege dropping:<br />
To avoid remote exploits (like those in older versions of the Freifunk Firmware) FFLuCI will set the UID/GID of pages running in the main public non-protected section to nobody/nogroup. There are many things left to do like porting over dhcpsplash, accounting, statistics and more to Kamikaze. Contributors are welcome.
</p>
<p>
<img src="/files/images/admin-index-luci.png" height="302" width="500" /> 
</p>
<p>
Links: 
</p>
<ul>
	<li><a href="http://luci.freifunk-halle.net/" target="_blank">http://luci.freifunk-halle.net</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://firmware.freifunk.net">Freifunk Firmware</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://x-wrt.org/" onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'','','res','1','')" class="l">Web interface for OpenWrt and more - X-Wrt.org</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://olsr.org">olsr.org</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://open-mesh.net">B.A.T.M.A.N.</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://openwrt.org">OpenWRT</a></li>
</ul>
    ]]></content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Interview with Free Wireless Evangelists from the Italian Ninux Community and the Freifunk Community in Germany</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.freifunk.net/2008/interview-with-free-wireless-evangelists-italian-ninux-community-and-freifunk-community-germany" />
    <id>http://blog.freifunk.net/2008/interview-with-free-wireless-evangelists-italian-ninux-community-and-freifunk-community-germany</id>
    <published>2008-05-23T01:40:45+02:00</published>
    <updated>2008-05-23T01:49:58+02:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Mario Behling</name>
    </author>
    <category term="Community" />
    <category term="Daniel Paufler" />
    <category term="Events" />
    <category term="free networks" />
    <category term="free wireless" />
    <category term="freie netze" />
    <category term="freifunk" />
    <category term="germany" />
    <category term="Italy" />
    <category term="Mario Behling" />
    <category term="ninux" />
    <category term="ninux.org" />
    <category term="Saverio" />
    <category term="Video" />
    <category term="video" />
    <category term="videoblog" />
    <category term="vlog" />
    <category term="wcw" />
    <category term="wcw2008" />
    <category term="wireless community weekend" />
    <category term="wireless community weekend 2008" />
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>
Saverio from the Italian <a href="http://ninux.org">Ninux community</a> has now published a video interview Daniel Paufler and I conducted with them at the <a href="http://wiki.freifunk.net/Wireless_Community_Weekend_2008">Wireless Community Weekend</a> in Berlin. Thank you very much for the great montaggio! It is real fun to watch!
</p>
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<a href="http://www.vimeo.com/1052320?pg=embed&amp;sec=1052320">Interview to Ninux and Freifunk members at WCW2008</a> from <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/user490911?pg=embed&amp;sec=1052320">Saverio Proto</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com?pg=embed&amp;sec=1052320">Vimeo</a>.
<p>
Direct Link: <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/1052320" title="http://www.vimeo.com/1052320">http://www.vimeo.com/1052320</a>
</p>
<blockquote>
	<p>
	In Berlin, at C-Base, people from wireless communities all around
	Europe meet to share ideas and experiences. See this interview by Mario
	Behling with free networks activists from <a href="http://ninux.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Ninux.org</a> and <a href="http://freifunk.net/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Freifunk.net</a> 
	</p>
</blockquote>
    ]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>
Saverio from the Italian <a href="http://ninux.org">Ninux community</a> has now published a video interview Daniel Paufler and I conducted with them at the <a href="http://wiki.freifunk.net/Wireless_Community_Weekend_2008">Wireless Community Weekend</a> in Berlin. Thank you very much for the great montaggio! It is real fun to watch!
</p>
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<br />
<a href="http://www.vimeo.com/1052320?pg=embed&amp;sec=1052320">Interview to Ninux and Freifunk members at WCW2008</a> from <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/user490911?pg=embed&amp;sec=1052320">Saverio Proto</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com?pg=embed&amp;sec=1052320">Vimeo</a>.
<p>
Direct Link: <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/1052320" title="http://www.vimeo.com/1052320">http://www.vimeo.com/1052320</a>
</p>
<blockquote>
	<p>
	In Berlin, at C-Base, people from wireless communities all around
	Europe meet to share ideas and experiences. See this interview by Mario
	Behling with free networks activists from <a href="http://ninux.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Ninux.org</a> and <a href="http://freifunk.net/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Freifunk.net</a> 
	</p>
</blockquote>
    ]]></content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Open Hardware: Interview with Jürgen Neumann and Marek Lindner</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.freifunk.net/2008/open-hardware-interview-with-j%C3%BCrgen-neumann-and-marek-lindner" />
    <id>http://blog.freifunk.net/2008/open-hardware-interview-with-j%C3%BCrgen-neumann-and-marek-lindner</id>
    <published>2008-05-22T21:41:44+02:00</published>
    <updated>2008-05-23T02:08:11+02:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Mario Behling</name>
    </author>
    <category term="B.A.T.M.A.N." />
    <category term="berlin" />
    <category term="Free Hardware" />
    <category term="freie netze" />
    <category term="freifunk" />
    <category term="Hardware" />
    <category term="hardware" />
    <category term="Open Hardware" />
    <category term="open tech" />
    <category term="open tech summit" />
    <category term="OpenHardware" />
    <category term="openmoko" />
    <category term="taipeh" />
    <category term="taiwan" />
    <category term="Video" />
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>
Jürgen Neumann, one of the initiators of freifunk.net, and Marek Lindner, openmoko developer and B.A.T.M.A.N. programmer, speak about the Open Hardware Initiative event <a href="http://wiki.openpattern.org/index.php/OpenTechSummitTaiwan2008" class="external text" title="http://wiki.openpattern.org/index.php/OpenTechSummitTaiwan2008" rel="nofollow">Open Tech Summit in Taiwan</a>.
</p>
<embed src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=3658635997245168365" id="VideoPlayback" style="width: 400px; height: 326px" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed> 
<p>
Producer: Mario Behling 
</p>
<p>
Direct Link: <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3658635997245168365" title="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3658635997245168365">http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3658635997245168365</a>
</p>
<p>
Links: 
</p>
<ul>
	<li><a href="http://wiki.openpattern.org/index.php/OpenTechSummitTaiwan2008" class="external text" title="http://wiki.openpattern.org/index.php/OpenTechSummitTaiwan2008" rel="nofollow">Open Tech Summit Taiwan</a></li>
	<li>Open Pattern Mailinglist: <a href="https://lists.openpattern.org/mailman/listinfo/open-hw" title="https://lists.openpattern.org/mailman/listinfo/open-hw">https://lists.openpattern.org/mailman/listinfo/open-hw</a> </li>
	<li>Server name: <a href="irc://chat.freenode.net/otstw2008">irc://chat.freenode.net/otstw2008</a></li>
	<li>Open Pattern Website: <a href="http://openpattern.org" title="http://openpattern.org">http://openpattern.org</a></li>
</ul>
<img src="/files/images/500px-Otstw2008_0.jpg" height="77" hspace="6" width="130" />
<ul>
</ul>
    ]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>
Jürgen Neumann, one of the initiators of freifunk.net, and Marek Lindner, openmoko developer and B.A.T.M.A.N. programmer, speak about the Open Hardware Initiative event <a href="http://wiki.openpattern.org/index.php/OpenTechSummitTaiwan2008" class="external text" title="http://wiki.openpattern.org/index.php/OpenTechSummitTaiwan2008" rel="nofollow">Open Tech Summit in Taiwan</a>.
</p>
<embed src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=3658635997245168365" id="VideoPlayback" style="width: 400px; height: 326px" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed> 
<p>
Producer: Mario Behling 
</p>
<p>
Direct Link: <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3658635997245168365" title="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3658635997245168365">http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3658635997245168365</a>
</p>
<p>
Links: 
</p>
<ul>
	<li><a href="http://wiki.openpattern.org/index.php/OpenTechSummitTaiwan2008" class="external text" title="http://wiki.openpattern.org/index.php/OpenTechSummitTaiwan2008" rel="nofollow">Open Tech Summit Taiwan</a></li>
	<li>Open Pattern Mailinglist: <a href="https://lists.openpattern.org/mailman/listinfo/open-hw" title="https://lists.openpattern.org/mailman/listinfo/open-hw">https://lists.openpattern.org/mailman/listinfo/open-hw</a> </li>
	<li>Server name: <a href="irc://chat.freenode.net/otstw2008">irc://chat.freenode.net/otstw2008</a></li>
	<li>Open Pattern Website: <a href="http://openpattern.org" title="http://openpattern.org">http://openpattern.org</a></li>
</ul>
<img src="/files/images/500px-Otstw2008_0.jpg" height="77" hspace="6" width="130" />
<ul>
</ul>
    ]]></content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Thema Freifunk und WLAN auf Radio Fritz</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.freifunk.net/2008/thema-freifunk-und-wlan-auf-radio-fritz" />
    <id>http://blog.freifunk.net/2008/thema-freifunk-und-wlan-auf-radio-fritz</id>
    <published>2008-05-22T10:02:34+02:00</published>
    <updated>2008-05-23T14:18:04+02:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Mario Behling</name>
    </author>
    <category term="Andreas Bogk" />
    <category term="Audio" />
    <category term="audio" />
    <category term="audiocast" />
    <category term="berlin" />
    <category term="bürgernetz" />
    <category term="c-base" />
    <category term="ccc" />
    <category term="cven" />
    <category term="freie netze" />
    <category term="freifunk" />
    <category term="fritz" />
    <category term="Medien" />
    <category term="offenes wlan" />
    <category term="podcast" />
    <category term="Praxis" />
    <category term="radio fritz" />
    <category term="Rechtliches" />
    <category term="Rechtsfragen" />
    <category term="Reto Mantz" />
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>
<a href="http://trackback.fritz.de">Trackback</a> auf <a href="http://fritz.de">Radio Fritz</a> berichtet über Freifunk. Hier Ausschnitte aus der Sendung. 
</p>
<blockquote>
	<p>
	<img src="/files/images/2624.jpg" height="58" hspace="6" width="300" />
	</p>
	<p>
	... Andreas Bogk vom CCC über die Frage, ob man sein WLAN offen oder zu haben sollte.<br />
	... Dr. Reto Manz’ <a href="http://www.retosphere.de/publikationen/diss.php?menu_id=20" target="_blank">Doktorarbeit zum Thema “Rechtsfragen in offenen Netzen”</a><br />
	... <a href="https://cven.crew.c-base.org/serendipity/">Cven Wagner</a> über <a href="http://berlin.freifunk.net/" target="_blank">Freifunken</a> und Sicherheit im offenen Netz.<br />
	(26.4.2008, Marcus Richter, <a href="http://spreeblick.com/trackback/2008/04/26/trb-074-notpron-robocup-offenes-wlan/" title="http://spreeblick.com/trackback/2008/04/26/trb-074-notpron-robocup-offenes-wlan/">http://spreeblick.com/trackback/2008/04/26/trb-074-notpron-robocup-offen...</a>)
	</p>
</blockquote>
<p>
Komplette Sendung: <a href="http://spreeblick.com/trackback/podpress_trac/web/293/0/trb_080426.mp3" title="http://spreeblick.com/trackback/podpress_trac/web/293/0/trb_080426.mp3">http://spreeblick.com/trackback/podpress_trac/web/293/0/trb_080426.mp3</a> 
</p>
    ]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>
<a href="http://trackback.fritz.de">Trackback</a> auf <a href="http://fritz.de">Radio Fritz</a> berichtet über Freifunk. Hier Ausschnitte aus der Sendung. 
</p>
<blockquote>
	<p>
	<img src="/files/images/2624.jpg" height="58" hspace="6" width="300" />
	</p>
	<p>
	... Andreas Bogk vom CCC über die Frage, ob man sein WLAN offen oder zu haben sollte.<br />
	... Dr. Reto Manz’ <a href="http://www.retosphere.de/publikationen/diss.php?menu_id=20" target="_blank">Doktorarbeit zum Thema “Rechtsfragen in offenen Netzen”</a><br />
	... <a href="https://cven.crew.c-base.org/serendipity/">Cven Wagner</a> über <a href="http://berlin.freifunk.net/" target="_blank">Freifunken</a> und Sicherheit im offenen Netz.<br />
	(26.4.2008, Marcus Richter, <a href="http://spreeblick.com/trackback/2008/04/26/trb-074-notpron-robocup-offenes-wlan/" title="http://spreeblick.com/trackback/2008/04/26/trb-074-notpron-robocup-offenes-wlan/">http://spreeblick.com/trackback/2008/04/26/trb-074-notpron-robocup-offen...</a>)
	</p>
</blockquote>
<p>
Komplette Sendung: <a href="http://spreeblick.com/trackback/podpress_trac/web/293/0/trb_080426.mp3" title="http://spreeblick.com/trackback/podpress_trac/web/293/0/trb_080426.mp3">http://spreeblick.com/trackback/podpress_trac/web/293/0/trb_080426.mp3</a> 
</p>
    ]]></content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Chaosradio Express mit Harald Welte zum Thema &quot;Software Defined Radio&quot; und technische Grundlagen und Entwicklung mit GNU Radio</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.freifunk.net/2008/chaosradio-express-mit-harald-welte-zum-thema-quotsoftware-defined-radioquot-und-technische-gru" />
    <id>http://blog.freifunk.net/2008/chaosradio-express-mit-harald-welte-zum-thema-quotsoftware-defined-radioquot-und-technische-gru</id>
    <published>2008-05-21T10:48:36+02:00</published>
    <updated>2008-05-21T11:48:09+02:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Mario Behling</name>
    </author>
    <category term="Audio" />
    <category term="chaosradio" />
    <category term="chaosradio express" />
    <category term="free radio" />
    <category term="free software" />
    <category term="freifunk" />
    <category term="fsf" />
    <category term="fsfe" />
    <category term="gnu" />
    <category term="gnu radio" />
    <category term="GPL" />
    <category term="gpl violations" />
    <category term="Harald Welte" />
    <category term="Hardware" />
    <category term="podcast" />
    <category term="radio" />
    <category term="skype" />
    <category term="Software" />
    <category term="Tim Pritlove" />
    <category term="wiki" />
    <category term="wikipedia" />
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>
<a href="http://laforge.gnumonks.org">Harald Welte</a> ist zu Gast bei Chaosradio Express und gibt Einblicke in seine derzeitigen Aktivitäten. 
</p>
<p>
Originalposting: <a href="http://chaosradio.ccc.de/cre087.html" title="http://chaosradio.ccc.de/cre087.html">http://chaosradio.ccc.de/cre087.html</a><br />
Download: <a href="http://chaosradio.ccc.de/archive/chaosradio_express_087.mp3" title="http://chaosradio.ccc.de/archive/chaosradio_express_087.mp3">http://chaosradio.ccc.de/archive/chaosradio_express_087.mp3</a> (118.6 MB)<br />
Dauer: 02:09:30h<br />
Veröffentlicht am: 17.05.2008, 22:00 Uhr<br />
Aufnahme vom: 14.05.2008<br />
Moderation: Tim Pritlove<br />
Gast: Harald Welte
</p>
<blockquote>
	<p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
	Moderne Funkempfänger und
	-sender setzen in zunehmenden Maße auf Software, die Schritt für
	Schritt die klassischen Hardware-Komponenten ersetzen. Das erlaubt
	nicht nur flexibere und günstigere Geräte, es ermöglicht auch, den
	eigenen Computer als komplexes Analyse- und Dekodierungswerkzeug
	einzusetzen. Die freie Software GNU Radio bietet heute schon den
	Werkzeugkasten zum Erzeugen und Dekodieren von Funkwellen auf dem PC
	und ebnet einer Vielzahl an möglichen Projekten den Weg, die bislang
	nur mit aufwändiger und teurer Hardware realisiert werden konnte. Harald
	Welte erläutert im Gespräch mit Tim Pritlove die Grundgedanken von
	Software Defined Radio und erläutert wie man GNU Radio und die freie
	Universal Software Radio Platform (USRP) für eigene Projekte zum
	Einsatz bringen kann. Es werden verschiedene Anwendungsmöglichkeiten
	vorgestellt und vor allem auf den aktuellen Stand des GSM Software
	Project eingegangen, das sich die Implementierung eines GSM-Stacks zum
	Empfangen und Senden zum Ziel gesetzt hat. 
	</p>
</blockquote>
<p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<a href="http://laforge.gnumonks.org">Harald</a> auf seinem Blog über die Sendung:
</p>
<blockquote>
	<p>
	I've had the pleasure of being invited to <a href="http://chaosradio.ccc.de/chaosradio_express.html">Chaosradio Express</a>
	maker Tim Pritlove to talk about Software Defined Radio in general, and
	gnuradio plus USRP specifically.  You can listen to the <a href="http://chaosradio.ccc.de/cre087.html">resulting 2+ hours of podcast (in
	German)</a>. It's been a great experience, and I have a good feeling that it was possible for
	us to explain this fairly detailed subject to our already at least moderately
	technical audience. SDR is really hard since it combines aspects of traditional radio, i.e. physics
	of electric waves, electrical engineering both analog and digital, digital
	signal processing and software.  The biggest part is really advanced
	mathematics, and at least from all the subjects that I've seen, it's probably
	the most direct and close-to-theory incarnation of applied math. Luckily, a fairly high-level understanding of the algorithms and principles
	involved are already sufficient to do a lot, since most of the deep-down
	mathematical details of many algorithms have already been implemented as
	building blocks for gnuradio.  Still, I assume the number of developers who
	are actually able to use gnuradio is far too low.  If you're looking for an
	interesting field of software right now, I suggest going for digital signal
	processing.  It's in every area of communications, ranging from analog modems
	over ISDN, DSL, WiFi, USB2, Bluetooth, GSM, UMTS, DECT, ZigBee, Ethernet, VoIP
	and probably any other communication technology that we use today. (<span class="dateheader">Sat, 17 May 2008, </span><a href="http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/2008/05/17/#2080517-chaosradio-sdr">http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/2008/05/17/#2080517-chaosradio-sdr</a>)
	</p>
</blockquote>
    ]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>
<a href="http://laforge.gnumonks.org">Harald Welte</a> ist zu Gast bei Chaosradio Express und gibt Einblicke in seine derzeitigen Aktivitäten. 
</p>
<p>
Originalposting: <a href="http://chaosradio.ccc.de/cre087.html" title="http://chaosradio.ccc.de/cre087.html">http://chaosradio.ccc.de/cre087.html</a><br />
Download: <a href="http://chaosradio.ccc.de/archive/chaosradio_express_087.mp3" title="http://chaosradio.ccc.de/archive/chaosradio_express_087.mp3">http://chaosradio.ccc.de/archive/chaosradio_express_087.mp3</a> (118.6 MB)<br />
Dauer: 02:09:30h<br />
Veröffentlicht am: 17.05.2008, 22:00 Uhr<br />
Aufnahme vom: 14.05.2008<br />
Moderation: Tim Pritlove<br />
Gast: Harald Welte
</p>
<blockquote>
	<p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
	Moderne Funkempfänger und
	-sender setzen in zunehmenden Maße auf Software, die Schritt für
	Schritt die klassischen Hardware-Komponenten ersetzen. Das erlaubt
	nicht nur flexibere und günstigere Geräte, es ermöglicht auch, den
	eigenen Computer als komplexes Analyse- und Dekodierungswerkzeug
	einzusetzen. Die freie Software GNU Radio bietet heute schon den
	Werkzeugkasten zum Erzeugen und Dekodieren von Funkwellen auf dem PC
	und ebnet einer Vielzahl an möglichen Projekten den Weg, die bislang
	nur mit aufwändiger und teurer Hardware realisiert werden konnte. Harald
	Welte erläutert im Gespräch mit Tim Pritlove die Grundgedanken von
	Software Defined Radio und erläutert wie man GNU Radio und die freie
	Universal Software Radio Platform (USRP) für eigene Projekte zum
	Einsatz bringen kann. Es werden verschiedene Anwendungsmöglichkeiten
	vorgestellt und vor allem auf den aktuellen Stand des GSM Software
	Project eingegangen, das sich die Implementierung eines GSM-Stacks zum
	Empfangen und Senden zum Ziel gesetzt hat. 
	</p>
</blockquote>
<p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<a href="http://laforge.gnumonks.org">Harald</a> auf seinem Blog über die Sendung:
</p>
<blockquote>
	<p>
	I've had the pleasure of being invited to <a href="http://chaosradio.ccc.de/chaosradio_express.html">Chaosradio Express</a>
	maker Tim Pritlove to talk about Software Defined Radio in general, and
	gnuradio plus USRP specifically.  You can listen to the <a href="http://chaosradio.ccc.de/cre087.html">resulting 2+ hours of podcast (in
	German)</a>. It's been a great experience, and I have a good feeling that it was possible for
	us to explain this fairly detailed subject to our already at least moderately
	technical audience. SDR is really hard since it combines aspects of traditional radio, i.e. physics
	of electric waves, electrical engineering both analog and digital, digital
	signal processing and software.  The biggest part is really advanced
	mathematics, and at least from all the subjects that I've seen, it's probably
	the most direct and close-to-theory incarnation of applied math. Luckily, a fairly high-level understanding of the algorithms and principles
	involved are already sufficient to do a lot, since most of the deep-down
	mathematical details of many algorithms have already been implemented as
	building blocks for gnuradio.  Still, I assume the number of developers who
	are actually able to use gnuradio is far too low.  If you're looking for an
	interesting field of software right now, I suggest going for digital signal
	processing.  It's in every area of communications, ranging from analog modems
	over ISDN, DSL, WiFi, USB2, Bluetooth, GSM, UMTS, DECT, ZigBee, Ethernet, VoIP
	and probably any other communication technology that we use today. (<span class="dateheader">Sat, 17 May 2008, </span><a href="http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/2008/05/17/#2080517-chaosradio-sdr">http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/2008/05/17/#2080517-chaosradio-sdr</a>)
	</p>
</blockquote>
&lt;!--break-->
<p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
Links:
</p>
<ul xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
	<li>
	<a href="http://gnumonks.org/%7Elaforge/weblog/">Harald Welte's Blog</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/2007_free_software_awards">FSF: Harald Welte presented with the 2007 Award for the Advancement Free Software</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://gpl-violations.org/">GPL Violations</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Urteil-gegen-Skype-wegen-GPL-Verletzung-bestaetigt--/meldung/107690">Heise News: Urteil gegen Skype wegen GPL-Verletzung bestätigt</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Defined_Radio">WP: Software Defined Radio (SDR)</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11">WP: IEEE 802.11</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog-Digital-Umsetzer">WP: Analog-Digital-Umsetzer</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio">WP: Radio</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_%28Elektronik%29">WP: Filter</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flankensteilheit">WP: Flankensteilheit</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwischenfrequenz">WP: Zwischenfrequenz</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direktmischempf%C3%A4nger">WP: Direktmischempfänger (Direct Conversion Receiver)</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%C3%A4gersignal">WP: Trägersignal</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mischer_%28Elektronik%29">WP: Mischer</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demodulator">WP: Demodulator</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basisband">WP: Basisband</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitale_Signalverarbeitung">WP: Digitale Signalverarbeitung</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitaler_Signalprozessor">WP: Digitaler Signalprozessor (DSP)</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist-Frequenz">WP: Nyquist-Frequenz</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amplitudenmodulation">WP: Amplitudenmodulation (AM)</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequenzmodulation">WP: Frequenzmodulation (FM)</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadraturphasenumtastung">Quadraturphasenumtastung (QPSK)</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_minimum-shift_keying">Gaussian minimum-shift keying (GMSK)</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phasenmodulation">WP: Phasenmodulation (PSK)</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadraturamplitudenmodulation">WP: Quadraturamplitudenmodulation</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trennsch%C3%A4rfe">WP: Trennschärfe</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funkscanner">WP: Funkscanner</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halbleiter">WP: Halbleiter</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altruismus">WP: Altruismus</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_System_for_Mobile_Communications">WP: Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Mobile_Telecommunications_System">WP: Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS)</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System">WP: Global Positioning System (GPS)</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualcomm">WP: Qualcomm</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://gnuradio.org/trac">GNU Radio</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gilmore_%28B%C3%BCrgerrechtler%29">WP: John Gilmore</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://chaosradio.ccc.de/cri003.html">CRI003: Interview with Eric Blossom</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B">WP: C++</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_%28Programmiersprache%29">WP: Python</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Radio_Mondiale">WP: Digital Radio Mondiale</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Data_System">WP: Radio Data System (RDS)</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://www.ettus.com/">Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP)</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_Programmable_Gate_Array">WP: Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://chaosradio.ccc.de/cre056.html">CRE056: GSM Hacking</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://wiki.thc.org/gsm">The GSM Software Project</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplexverfahren">WP: Multiplexverfahren</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_Broadcast">WP: Cell Broadcast</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichtgeschwindigkeit">WP: Lichtgeschwindigkeit</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warpantrieb">WP: Warpantrieb</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_%28Prozessor%29">WP: Cell-Prozessor</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://www.fox.com/terminator/">Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tcpdump">WP: tcpdump</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireshark">WP: Wireshark</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/A5_%28Algorithmus%29">A5-Algorithmus</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promiscuous_Mode">WP: Promiscuous Mode</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_flag">WP: Broadcast Flag</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Audio_Tape">WP: Digital Audio Tape (DAT)</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Television_Systems_Committee">WP: Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC)</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_Radio">WP: Packet Radio</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_Message_Channel">WP: Traffic Message Channel (TMC)</a></li>
</ul>
    ]]></content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Global Newswire temporarily offline</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.freifunk.net/2008/global-newswire-temporarily-offline" />
    <id>http://blog.freifunk.net/2008/global-newswire-temporarily-offline</id>
    <published>2008-05-21T10:30:00+02:00</published>
    <updated>2008-05-21T10:30:00+02:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Mario Behling</name>
    </author>
    <category term="Alex Antener" />
    <category term="freie netze" />
    <category term="freifunk" />
    <category term="freifunk blogs" />
    <category term="global newswire" />
    <category term="newswire" />
    <category term="Website" />
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Since yesterday the <a href="http://global.freifunk.net">global newswire</a> is offline. There are some problems with the newswire server. <a href="http://alexantener.com">Alex Antener</a> who is the main admin taking care of the server is currently in Africa. So it will take a few days before <a href="http://global.freifunk.net">global.freifunk.net</a> will go online again. Sorry for that. If you speak German you can visit the German language newswire at <a href="http://blogs.freifunk.net">blogs.freifunk.net</a> in the meantime :-)
    ]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[Since yesterday the <a href="http://global.freifunk.net">global newswire</a> is offline. There are some problems with the newswire server. <a href="http://alexantener.com">Alex Antener</a> who is the main admin taking care of the server is currently in Africa. So it will take a few days before <a href="http://global.freifunk.net">global.freifunk.net</a> will go online again. Sorry for that. If you speak German you can visit the German language newswire at <a href="http://blogs.freifunk.net">blogs.freifunk.net</a> in the meantime :-)
    ]]></content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Deutschlandfunk: Freifunk bietet kostenloses Internet per Nachbarschaftshilfe, &quot;Anschluss nebenan&quot;</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.freifunk.net/2008/deutschlandfunk-freifunk-bietet-kostenloses-internet-nachbarschaftshilfe-quotanschluss-nebenanq" />
    <id>http://blog.freifunk.net/2008/deutschlandfunk-freifunk-bietet-kostenloses-internet-nachbarschaftshilfe-quotanschluss-nebenanq</id>
    <published>2008-05-20T13:25:20+02:00</published>
    <updated>2008-06-01T15:35:38+02:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Mario Behling</name>
    </author>
    <category term="Audio" />
    <category term="audio" />
    <category term="audiocast" />
    <category term="bürgernetz" />
    <category term="Deutschlandfunk" />
    <category term="Deutschlandradio" />
    <category term="freie Bürgernetze" />
    <category term="freie netze" />
    <category term="freifunk" />
    <category term="jürgen neumann" />
    <category term="Medien" />
    <category term="nachbarschaftshilfe" />
    <category term="podcast" />
    <category term="radio" />
    <category term="wlan" />
    <category term="Wolfgang Noelke" />
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>
Beitrag über Freifunk im <a href="http://www.dradio.de/dlf/">Deutschlandfunk</a>: 
</p>
<blockquote>
	<p>
	<img src="/files/images/deutschlandfunk.jpg" align="right" border="1" height="65" vspace="5" width="150" />&quot;Wo das moderne Glasfasernetz die Entwicklung einer DSL-Infrastruktur
	verhinderte und die vorhandenen Telefon- und Modemanschlüsse rar waren
	war Vielen der Internetzugang versperrt. Ersatz bringen engagierte
	Anwender, die eigene WLAN-Netze erschaffen&quot;
	</p>
</blockquote>
<p>
Autor: Wolfgang Noelke
<br />
Beitrag: <a href="http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/computer/786517/" title="http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/computer/786517/">http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/computer/786517/</a><br />
mp3-Download: <a href="http://ondemand-mp3.dradio.de/file/dradio/2008/05/17/dlf_20080517_1646_e9ccfc9e.mp3" title="http://ondemand-mp3.dradio.de/file/dradio/2008/05/17/dlf_20080517_1646_e9ccfc9e.mp3">http://ondemand-mp3.dradio.de/file/dradio/2008/05/17/dlf_20080517_1646_e...</a> 
</p>
<p>
Wolfgang Noelke war beim Wireless Community Weekend zu Gast. Er hat in
den letzten Jahren bereits öfters über Freifunk berichtet und liefert
nicht nur interessante, sondern auch gut recherchierte und faktisch
korrekte Beiträge. Das fällt vielen Journalisten nicht nur in bezug auf
Freifunk schwer.
</p>
<p>
<img src="/files/images/juergen-neumann-freifunk.jpeg" align="middle" height="338" width="450" /> <br />
<span class="bildunterschrift">Jürgen Neumann: Freifunker verbinden den Spaß mit dem
Nützlichen und liefern Internet auch an Orte, die kommerzielle Anbieter
vernachlässigen. (Bild: Wolfgang Noelke)</span>
</p>
<p>
Der Beitrag:
</p>
<blockquote>
	<p>
	(Wolfgang Noelke) In Berlin realisierte man vor fünf Jahren, was man zur Jahrtausendwende
	bereits in London versuchte: Eine drahtlose Vernetzung aller in der
	Nachbarschaft vorhandenen PCs, die im Prinzip so funktioniert, wie
	kreuz und quer miteinander verbundene Straßen: Wenn eine dieser Straßen
	einen Autobahnanschluss hat, ist es nur eine Frage der Zeit, wann ein
	am anderen Ende des Straßennetzes startendes Fahrzeug die Autobahn
	erreicht. So schrieb die Freifunk-Gemeinde ein Protokoll, das jedem, im
	Netzwerk angemeldeten Computer das aktuelle Abbild der sich ständig
	verändernden Verbindungen mitteilt und veröffentlichte es unter dem
	Namen &quot;Optimized Link State Routing&quot;. Wer an Freifunk teilnehmen
	wollte, ob mit oder ohne Internetanschluss, brauchte nur noch einen
	passenden WLAN-Router, erinnert sich Jürgen Neumann, Gründer von
	Freifunk:<br />
	<br />
	(Jürgen Neumann) <span class="text_zitatdlf">Lange Zeit ging das so,
	man kauft sich einen Access-Point, der muss kompatibel sein. Da gibt es
	eine lange Liste von verschiedenen Geräten, die dafür infrage kommen
	und dann kann man über ein Web Interface Firmware austauschen.
	Freifunk-Firmware kann man sich kostenlos aus dem Internet herunter
	laden und es reicht, diese zu ersetzen, aber wir sind einen
	wesentlichen Schritt weiter. Ich habe aus Taiwan erste Router
	mitgebracht, die tatsächlich schon ab Werk mit einer Firmware geflasht
	sind, die man überhaupt nicht mehr konfigurieren muss. Also es reicht,
	die Geräte einfach in die Steckdose zu stecken und der Rest geht
	automatisch.</span><br />
	<br />
	(Wolfgang Noelke) Das schreckte viele ab: Firmware
	auszutauschen, an sich ein kompliziertes und riskantes Manöver, bei dem
	die Betriebssoftware des Routers durch eine neue, quasi
	selbstgestrickte Version ersetzt wird. Das schreckte besonders
	diejenigen ab, für die Freifunk ursprünglich gedacht war: Teilnehmer
	ohne Internetanschluss und einer deswegen auch oft mangelnden Internet-
	und Computererfahrung. Die Teilnehmerzahl wuchs trotzdem. Inzwischen
	sind ganze Stadtteile Berlins und Städte wie Weimar gut vernetzt. Mit
	zunehmender Teilnehmerzahl wurde das alte Netzwerkprotokoll immer
	langsamer. Es berechnet ja die Navigation durch das das gesamte
	Netzwerk, kennt bereits beim Absenden eines Datenpäckchens jeden Knoten
	bis zum Ziel. Daran wurde gearbeitet: Um den genauen Weg zum Ziel
	kümmert sich das neue Protokoll B.A.T.M.A.N. - &quot;Better Approach To
	Mobile Adhoc Networking&quot;, generiert wörtlich eine &quot;Bessere Ähnlichkeit
	Mobiler Spontan-Netzwerke&quot; und verhält sich auch so. Wer spontan ein
	Päckchen versendet, denkt doch niemals an die unterwegs zu
	durchlaufenden Poststationen:<br />
	<br />
	(Jürgen Neumann) <span class="text_zitatdlf">Ich muss nur wissen, wenn ich ein Päckchen von hier schicke, wo der nächste Briefkasten ist, wo ich das abgebe, sozusagen.</span><br />
	<br />
	(Wolfgang Noelke) Von
	da ab geht's nun automatisch: Geeignete Briefkästen zum Weiterversenden
	sind die der nächsten Nachbarschaft, bis das Päckchen zufällig einen
	Briefkasten mit Internetanbindung erreicht.<br />
	<br />
	(Jürgen Neumann) <span class="text_zitatdlf">Da
	sind schon Mechanismen implementiert, um das permanent zu überprüfen
	und die Router auch sehr schnell anzupassen. Also jeder einzelne Node
	weiß nur noch, bei welchen nächsten Nachbarn er ein Paket abgeben muss,
	wenn es in eine bestimmte Richtung geschickt werden soll.</span><br />
	<br />
	(Wolfgang Noelke) Neben
	dieser selbstverständlich unter Open-Source-Bedingungen angebotenen
	Software beschäftigt sich die Gemeinschaft bereits auch mit
	Open-Source-Hardware. Auf einen Hauptprozessor im Router, die so
	genannte CPU, verzichtet man:<br />
	<br />
	(Jürgen Neumann) <span class="text_zitatdlf">Die
	Gruppe heißt OpenPattern.org, die gerade dabei sind, einen Router zu
	entwickeln. Und dieser Router verwendet keine CPU mehr im Sinne eines
	vorgefertigten Chips, sondern ein Bauteil, in das man selber eine
	CPU-softwaremäßig schreiben kann. Das bedeutet, die entwickeln gerade
	ihre eigene CPU und ihr eigenes Routerboard und sicher haben wir auch
	schon darüber gesprochen, mal einen Wireless Chip aus der Community
	heraus zu designen und dann dafür hoffentlich einen Hersteller in
	Taiwan oder in einem anderen Land zu finden.</span><br />
	<br />
	(Wolfgang Noelke) Vielleicht
	bewahrheitet sich damit bald der Freifunk-Traum, dass sich überall
	dort, wo mehrere WLAN-fähige Geräte sich gegenseitig erreichen, sich
	spontan ein Netzwerk bildet. Das nennt sich Meshing. Jürgen Neumann:<br />
	<br />
	(Jürgen Neumann) ##Seitdem
	wir uns mit Meshing beschäftigen, beschäftigen wir uns mit der Idee,
	dass jedes Telefon zum Beispiel ein Meshpoint sein könnte oder jeder
	kleine PDA. Alles was die Leute so an elektronischen Geräten in der
	Tasche mit sich herum tragen. Es hat nur leider zwei große Probleme.
	Das erste ist, dass der Stromverbrauch dieses WiFi Chips ziemlich hoch
	ist. Und wenn wir uns so eine Mesh-Wolke vorstellen, die immer in
	Bewegung ist, dann würde das auch bedeuten, dass das Wireless Device
	permanent Daten überträgt und mit den Chips, die wir heute haben, würde
	das zu viel Strom verbrauchen. Der zweite Punkt ist, dass es zwar schon
	eine Implementierung von BATMAN auf Layer zwei gibt, dass man diese
	aber in die Firmware des Chips idealerweise integrieren müsste und dass
	es bisher noch keinen Chiphersteller gibt, der sagt: Lass uns das
	machen. 
	</p>
</blockquote>
    ]]></summary>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>
Beitrag über Freifunk im <a href="http://www.dradio.de/dlf/">Deutschlandfunk</a>: 
</p>
<blockquote>
	<p>
	<img src="/files/images/deutschlandfunk.jpg" align="right" border="1" height="65" vspace="5" width="150" />&quot;Wo das moderne Glasfasernetz die Entwicklung einer DSL-Infrastruktur
	verhinderte und die vorhandenen Telefon- und Modemanschlüsse rar waren
	war Vielen der Internetzugang versperrt. Ersatz bringen engagierte
	Anwender, die eigene WLAN-Netze erschaffen&quot;
	</p>
</blockquote>
<p>
Autor: Wolfgang Noelke
<br />
Beitrag: <a href="http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/computer/786517/" title="http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/computer/786517/">http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/computer/786517/</a><br />
mp3-Download: <a href="http://ondemand-mp3.dradio.de/file/dradio/2008/05/17/dlf_20080517_1646_e9ccfc9e.mp3" title="http://ondemand-mp3.dradio.de/file/dradio/2008/05/17/dlf_20080517_1646_e9ccfc9e.mp3">http://ondemand-mp3.dradio.de/file/dradio/2008/05/17/dlf_20080517_1646_e...</a> 
</p>
<p>
Wolfgang Noelke war beim Wireless Community Weekend zu Gast. Er hat in
den letzten Jahren bereits öfters über Freifunk berichtet und liefert
nicht nur interessante, sondern auch gut recherchierte und faktisch
korrekte Beiträge. Das fällt vielen Journalisten nicht nur in bezug auf
Freifunk schwer.
</p>
<p>
<img src="/files/images/juergen-neumann-freifunk.jpeg" align="middle" height="338" width="450" /> <br />
<span class="bildunterschrift">Jürgen Neumann: Freifunker verbinden den Spaß mit dem
Nützlichen und liefern Internet auch an Orte, die kommerzielle Anbieter
vernachlässigen. (Bild: Wolfgang Noelke)</span>
</p>
<p>
Der Beitrag:
</p>
<blockquote>
	<p>
	(Wolfgang Noelke) In Berlin realisierte man vor fünf Jahren, was man zur Jahrtausendwende
	bereits in London versuchte: Eine drahtlose Vernetzung aller in der
	Nachbarschaft vorhandenen PCs, die im Prinzip so funktioniert, wie
	kreuz und quer miteinander verbundene Straßen: Wenn eine dieser Straßen
	einen Autobahnanschluss hat, ist es nur eine Frage der Zeit, wann ein
	am anderen Ende des Straßennetzes startendes Fahrzeug die Autobahn
	erreicht. So schrieb die Freifunk-Gemeinde ein Protokoll, das jedem, im
	Netzwerk angemeldeten Computer das aktuelle Abbild der sich ständig
	verändernden Verbindungen mitteilt und veröffentlichte es unter dem
	Namen &quot;Optimized Link State Routing&quot;. Wer an Freifunk teilnehmen
	wollte, ob mit oder ohne Internetanschluss, brauchte nur noch einen
	passenden WLAN-Router, erinnert sich Jürgen Neumann, Gründer von
	Freifunk:<br />
	<br />
	(Jürgen Neumann) <span class="text_zitatdlf">Lange Zeit ging das so,
	man kauft sich einen Access-Point, der muss kompatibel sein. Da gibt es
	eine lange Liste von verschiedenen Geräten, die dafür infrage kommen
	und dann kann man über ein Web Interface Firmware austauschen.
	Freifunk-Firmware kann man sich kostenlos aus dem Internet herunter
	laden und es reicht, diese zu ersetzen, aber wir sind einen
	wesentlichen Schritt weiter. Ich habe aus Taiwan erste Router
	mitgebracht, die tatsächlich schon ab Werk mit einer Firmware geflasht
	sind, die man überhaupt nicht mehr konfigurieren muss. Also es reicht,
	die Geräte einfach in die Steckdose zu stecken und der Rest geht
	automatisch.</span><br />
	<br />
	(Wolfgang Noelke) Das schreckte viele ab: Firmware
	auszutauschen, an sich ein kompliziertes und riskantes Manöver, bei dem
	die Betriebssoftware des Routers durch eine neue, quasi
	selbstgestrickte Version ersetzt wird. Das schreckte besonders
	diejenigen ab, für die Freifunk ursprünglich gedacht war: Teilnehmer
	ohne Internetanschluss und einer deswegen auch oft mangelnden Internet-
	und Computererfahrung. Die Teilnehmerzahl wuchs trotzdem. Inzwischen
	sind ganze Stadtteile Berlins und Städte wie Weimar gut vernetzt. Mit
	zunehmender Teilnehmerzahl wurde das alte Netzwerkprotokoll immer
	langsamer. Es berechnet ja die Navigation durch das das gesamte
	Netzwerk, kennt bereits beim Absenden eines Datenpäckchens jeden Knoten
	bis zum Ziel. Daran wurde gearbeitet: Um den genauen Weg zum Ziel
	kümmert sich das neue Protokoll B.A.T.M.A.N. - &quot;Better Approach To
	Mobile Adhoc Networking&quot;, generiert wörtlich eine &quot;Bessere Ähnlichkeit
	Mobiler Spontan-Netzwerke&quot; und verhält sich auch so. Wer spontan ein
	Päckchen versendet, denkt doch niemals an die unterwegs zu
	durchlaufenden Poststationen:<br />
	<br />
	(Jürgen Neumann) <span class="text_zitatdlf">Ich muss nur wissen, wenn ich ein Päckchen von hier schicke, wo der nächste Briefkasten ist, wo ich das abgebe, sozusagen.</span><br />
	<br />
	(Wolfgang Noelke) Von
	da ab geht's nun automatisch: Geeignete Briefkästen zum Weiterversenden
	sind die der nächsten Nachbarschaft, bis das Päckchen zufällig einen
	Briefkasten mit Internetanbindung erreicht.<br />
	<br />
	(Jürgen Neumann) <span class="text_zitatdlf">Da
	sind schon Mechanismen implementiert, um das permanent zu überprüfen
	und die Router auch sehr schnell anzupassen. Also jeder einzelne Node
	weiß nur noch, bei welchen nächsten Nachbarn er ein Paket abgeben muss,
	wenn es in eine bestimmte Richtung geschickt werden soll.</span><br />
	<br />
	(Wolfgang Noelke) Neben
	dieser selbstverständlich unter Open-Source-Bedingungen angebotenen
	Software beschäftigt sich die Gemeinschaft bereits auch mit
	Open-Source-Hardware. Auf einen Hauptprozessor im Router, die so
	genannte CPU, verzichtet man:<br />
	<br />
	(Jürgen Neumann) <span class="text_zitatdlf">Die
	Gruppe heißt OpenPattern.org, die gerade dabei sind, einen Router zu
	entwickeln. Und dieser Router verwendet keine CPU mehr im Sinne eines
	vorgefertigten Chips, sondern ein Bauteil, in das man selber eine
	CPU-softwaremäßig schreiben kann. Das bedeutet, die entwickeln gerade
	ihre eigene CPU und ihr eigenes Routerboard und sicher haben wir auch
	schon darüber gesprochen, mal einen Wireless Chip aus der Community
	heraus zu designen und dann dafür hoffentlich einen Hersteller in
	Taiwan oder in einem anderen Land zu finden.</span><br />
	<br />
	(Wolfgang Noelke) Vielleicht
	bewahrheitet sich damit bald der Freifunk-Traum, dass sich überall
	dort, wo mehrere WLAN-fähige Geräte sich gegenseitig erreichen, sich
	spontan ein Netzwerk bildet. Das nennt sich Meshing. Jürgen Neumann:<br />
	<br />
	(Jürgen Neumann) ##Seitdem
	wir uns mit Meshing beschäftigen, beschäftigen wir uns mit der Idee,
	dass jedes Telefon zum Beispiel ein Meshpoint sein könnte oder jeder
	kleine PDA. Alles was die Leute so an elektronischen Geräten in der
	Tasche mit sich herum tragen. Es hat nur leider zwei große Probleme.
	Das erste ist, dass der Stromverbrauch dieses WiFi Chips ziemlich hoch
	ist. Und wenn wir uns so eine Mesh-Wolke vorstellen, die immer in
	Bewegung ist, dann würde das auch bedeuten, dass das Wireless Device
	permanent Daten überträgt und mit den Chips, die wir heute haben, würde
	das zu viel Strom verbrauchen. Der zweite Punkt ist, dass es zwar schon
	eine Implementierung von BATMAN auf Layer zwei gibt, dass man diese
	aber in die Firmware des Chips idealerweise integrieren müsste und dass
	es bisher noch keinen Chiphersteller gibt, der sagt: Lass uns das
	machen. 
	</p>
</blockquote>
    ]]></content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Gerichtsurteil zur potentiellen Strafbarkeit der Nutzung eines privaten, offenen WLANs - Auswirkungen auf Freifunk?</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.freifunk.net/2008/gerichtsurteil-zur-potentiellen-strafbarkeit-der-nutzung-eines-privaten-offenen-wlans-auswirkun" />
    <id>http://blog.freifunk.net/2008/gerichtsurteil-zur-potentiellen-strafbarkeit-der-nutzung-eines-privaten-offenen-wlans-auswirkun</id>
    <published>2008-05-16T21:54:42+02:00</published>
    <updated>2008-05-16T22:39:33+02:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Mario Behling</name>
    </author>
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