[Voyage-linux] How Voyage can change peoples lives

[Pablo Osuna]

Hi Mark!

My name is Pablo, and I think we have plenty of things in common!. I am
part of EHAS, a spanish non-profit institution, whose ultimate goal is
improving public (as in state run) health assistance services in rural
areas of Latin American countries, as well as any other developing
countries, through the use of modern communications and information
technology.

Basically we are working with several wireless technologies (HF, VHF),
and WiFi has been the last one to turn up for us.

For the moment we are running Soekris with pebble and Voyage, and also
with Asterisk to provide VoIP. This has been our initial development,
because now the next step is going to some challenguing things like: IP
Autoconfiguration, Multi-hop routing wireless protocol, QoS in IP layer
with maybe iproute2, power save schemes, etc. Besides we plan to migrate
this system to ARM since we also run our routers with solar energy, and
this is a very limiting factor because of the prices.

I also would like to thank the effort to Voyage, communities like this
allow us to do the work much easier and are a big motivation.

Related to Web Interface, there is a very nice one based on PHP called
WiFiAdmin http://wifiadmin.sourceforge.net/
Also I think Metrix distro has cracked a lot on it
http://metrix.net/support/dist/ so it is worth to have a look at it.
I checked WifiAdmin and there were two important limitations: Security
was not implemented and the changes did not remain saved after a reboot
(it is using iwconfig ... instead of saving the configuration properly
in /etc/network/interfaces). Let me know if you see something
interesting, because I am also interested on it and it could be an
important improvement for Voyage.

Well Mark, I will have a look at your Web Site and keep in touch,
because I think we can collaborate in some way.

Regards from Madrid:

Pablo

El mar, 09-08-2005 a las 11:56 -0700, mark at kermit.org escribió:
> Hello everyone on the list;
> 
> 
> I wanted to let you guys know what we (Inveneo http:// 
> www.inveneo.org ) are doing with Voyage. We are a non-profit  
> organization that builds communications networks for remote  
> communities around the world that have no access to electricity and  
> phone lines. Our systems run of batteries that are charged by solar  
> and other types of generators. We establish WiFi links between the  
> various sites and run VoIP (voice over IP) on these links. We use  
> WRAP boards to establish the WiFi links which run a slightly modified  
> Voyage distro on them and use Asterisk ( http://www.asterisk.org ) to  
> provide the VoIP capabilities.
> 
> We completed two month ago our first installation in a remote region  
> of western Uganda (in the area of Fort Portal). Access to  
> communication can have a profound impact for these communities and I  
> want to thank all the people who have been working on this software  
> which in return enables us to create these networks.
> 
> If you're interested have a look at our web site ( http:// 
> www.inveneo.org ), we have as well just today released our code base  
> and detailed instructions how others can build these networks.
> 
> If I could add one feature to the current distro, it would be a web  
> based configuration interface. If anyone on the list has any pointers  
> to start looking at, please me know and I'd be happy to pinch in with  
> some coding - as much as it is in my abilities.
> 
> 
> Thanks and take care,
> 
> Mark
> 
> --------------------------------------------
> Mark Summer
> co-founder, Inveneo
> web:   http://www.inveneo.org
> phone: +1-415-901-1969 x 1200
> FWD:   603303
> cell:  +1-415-867-9751
> email: mark.summer (at) inveneo.org
> 
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