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

[Chase Phillips]

This is excellent!  It looks like the provisioning system others have
talked about (including Paul et al at NS4CWN 06), and the map has
features over WNMap's currently.

On 5/11/06, Sascha Meinrath <sascha at ucimc.org> wrote:
> 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
>
> ***
>
> 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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