I second Carol's pragmatic approach. What we should do is to use access points in schools whenever possible. The mesh network was not designed to compete with infra-structure. It was designed to be used when there is no infra-structure.<br>
<br>That being said, I will keep repeating myself that non-infrastructure is the default and will be the default scenario for years to come. So I believe we want and we need to have a working mesh and the good news is: we have!<br>
<br>The "kids under the tree scenario" (i.e. the mesh) works and it works pretty well. In my testbed with 10 XOs removed from any infra-structure, the XOs can effectively collaborate. What we have are scalability issues that are being addressed gradually. And application issues that will happen even in infrastructure mode.<br>
<br>The fact that we can't have 50 XOs collaborating through the mesh now does not mean we don't have a working mesh. And it is important for all the involved people to realize that we will progress to have N laptops, but there'll always be N+1.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br><b>Networking:</b> how much of the problems still outstanding with the mesh could be addressed by "throwing money at it", i.e. sending commercial APs to the small schools not currently using them. If this addresses the most pressing problems in the most common use cases, wouldn't it make sense to do so, given the opportunity cost of devoting engineering resources to the mesh issues when so many other problems vie for this time?<br>
<br>Carol Lerche<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Michael Stone <<a href="mailto:michael@laptop.org" target="_blank">michael@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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Dear devel@<br>
<br>
cjb, marcopg, tomeu, myself, and several others conducted a 2-hour<br>
planning session this morning. I've created a transcript of that<br>
discussion [1]. If you're interested, please review the questions that<br>
were raised and contribute your thoughts. (FYI: The end goal of this<br>
effort is a convincing written statement of where we want to go in the<br>
next four months, why we want to go there, and how we intend to get<br>
there.)<br>
<br>
Michael<br>
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[1]: <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Mstone/August_planning" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Mstone/August_planning</a><br>
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