Hi!
My GSoC Project for Freifunk is the development of a Query Client for the Freifunk API.
The Freifunk API is inspired by the so called “Space API” that is used by Hackerspaces all over the world.
It provides detailled information about every Freifunk Community and is intended to serve as a central place to aquire information and statistics about all Freifunk communities.
Freifunk communities can provide their data for the API using the generator.
The aim of my project is to provide a query browser for the API data to make the data for humans as well as machines more useful and accessible.
Possible usage examples are queries like:
– All contact mailinglists for all communities.
– Sum over all node numbers of all communites
– Show the name and webpage of all communities that use OLSR for routing.
– …
The API is defined using JSON-Schema. The current (0.3.0) version of the definition is here.
The query client will provide queries for the API data according to the specification.
It will be a JavaScript based web-application that loads the API files and returns results according to queries.
Besides that we plan to provide a server that provides results as JSON that can be used by routers or other machines or websites.
E.g. the current node count could be integrated in the website for the community via a simple Ajax-Request to the API.
A working prototype is planned to ready next week.
About Me: My name is Martin Tippmann. I’m a student at the Bauhaus Universität Weimar and I’m pursuing a degree in Computer Science for Media there.