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Hi all,

at the fantastic WSFII meeting during SAX at guifi.net in Spain we started to specify two wireless hardware devices. There were people from various free wireless network communites from Europe and the US. We had a three hour workshop and tried to define our wish list for cheap free open source software compatible open wireless hardware. Now we are trying to find the manufacturers who is willing to build those devices.

If you have any contacts that could help, please talk to them and show them our results. The company should best sell those products direct to the communites over webshop and only ship the bulk boards in charges of 20,50,100 or more. We think, that's the best way to make them as cheep as possible.

There are quite a lot of people willing to help in e.g. software/driver-development or hardware-design. I am very positive that sooner or later some manufacturer is going to see their chance in our global movement!

(via Marek Lindner) Time: Wednesday 20^th June 2007 / Place: c-base berlin

The B.A.T.M.A.N.-developer team would be happy to celebrate with YOU the 0.2 release of B.A.T.M.A.N. at the C-Base (in Berlin). FYI, there will also be a free barrel of cool beer waiting to be flushed. Version 0.2 can reasonably be called stable now. It works quite performant, supports multiple interfaces, has a low CPU-load, a robustly working algorithm underneath, and autonomously negotiates UDP-Tunnels to GWs  which ultimately enables long-term and stable internet connections. A number of users reported quite excitedly about the amazing experiences they made with this protocol. Well, we want to stay neutral so join in to hear them and try batman for yourself.

Currently B.A.T.M.A.N is available for Linux only. The ports for Mac OS-X and BSD have fallen asleep and are waiting for a diligent bee ... Maybe there will once also exist a windows port.

Many thanks to all the people who helped to realize this in such a short amount of time.