[CUWiN-Dev] funkfeuer.at presents "redeemer" a municipal wifi freenet provisioning software

[Sascha Meinrath]

Hi all,

What do folks think about this?  Obviously, this is a much more centralized 
system than what CUWiN uses, but I'm curious if folks have any thoughts about 
it.  I've been talking with Aaron and the Freifunk folks (since I'm traveling to 
Vienna and Berlin) about visiting with them and learning more about their 
projects.  If folks have specific questions, definitely send them along.  I'll 
probably be meeting with Funkfeuer folks next week and the Berlin folks the 
weekend of the 19th.

Keep me posted,

--Sascha

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Funkfeuer presents "redeemer": a GNU GPL WLAN freenetwork provisioning
software.

Why?

We hope to make the process of setting up a mesh based community
wireless LAN and the extra services (VOIP, ..) much easier with this
software.

What is it?

"redeemer" is an almost complete provisioning software for municipal
wifi freenets. http://sourceforge.net/projects/redeemer

It started because at funkfeuer.at we use official IP addresses. We also
did not want to rely on any autoconfig mechanism at that time. So we
wrote our own provisioning DB. As a side product we could create a very
nice real time map of the whole mesh network.
A sample map can be seen at:

http://sandwich.funkfeuer.at/patrick/map

Another notable feature is the provisioning of VOIP (asterisk) configs.

The most practical feature however is the flexible driver framework:
want to add services? Just write a small driver that will feed your
service with the necessary data from the DB.

"redeemer" still lacks documentation but it is licensed und the GPL.

All credits for coding go to: Wolfgang Nagele, Patrick Gaubatz
GPL -> additions and modifications are welcome!

Aaron Kaplan
press contact, funkfeuer.at

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