[Commotion-dev] convincing google to support ad-hoc mode

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I had dinner with Lucas Dixon a small group at a dinner organized by a couple Google people on Tuesday as a precursor to Internet at Liberty.  Last night at the conference dinner, I happened to be sitting next to him again, and he turned to me and said something like "I really think that its important that Android support Ad-hoc mode".  Needless to say, I agreed and gave him lots of information why.  He said he's been talking to the google dev who works on that part of Android, and he's overburdened.  He's been trying to line up other google devs to work on this as part of their 20% time.  We agreed to start an email conversation with those devs with the goal of: a) figuring out what needs to be done, and b) putting together an internal proposal to get google resources officially assigned to it.

I saw Lucas again as we left today, and we reiterated this.  So I'll keep you posted on this.

.hc

On May 24, 2012, at 10:37 AM, Brian Duggan wrote:

> Thomas and I spoke to Lucas Dixon of Google ideas a couple months ago about this issue. He's at Internet @ Freedom today. Don't know where that went, but he was receptive to the ideas of supporting adhoc in the SDK and exploring a not-quite-root privilege level for routing table modification. He's at Internet @ Liberty today. I'll follow up with him :)
> 
> Brian
> 
> On May 24, 2012 10:25 AM, "L. Aaron Kaplan" <aaron at lo-res.org> wrote:
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> On May 24, 2012, at 2:39 PM, Sascha Meinrath wrote:
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> > Perhaps we should see about setting up a meeting with the Android development
> > team management to ensure they understand the importance of ad hoc mode for the
> > open source movement?
> >
> YES!!
> 
> That would be a great contribution.
> 
> Aaron.
> 
> 
> PS: while you are at it: please tell them that for good meshing we need the layer 2 parameters (RSSI, noise, SNR, biterror rate, etc.) as data readable from /proc or debugfs
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