[Olpc-socal] OLPC for research project?

[Nicholas Doiron]

The XO has some great activities that have mesh networking.  But not all
activities support this.

I've been working on Map and OfflineMap activities for the XO.  They
support mesh networking and import of GeoRSS, such as Ushahidi's /feed page
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Map
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Ndoiron/OfflineMap

Let me know if those are useful to you.

Regards,
Nick Doiron
2012 Fellow (Macon)
Code for America

On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Danny Iland <iland at cs.ucsb.edu> wrote:

> I'm a UCSB PhD student studying Computer Science, taking a graduate
> course in Mobile Networking. My partner and I want to make an
> application for a disaster or crisis that will use the mesh network on
> the XO. Our goal is to enable people with XO laptops, and those around
> them, to communicate with search and rescue personnel, aid
> organizations, and each other in the event of a disaster. We want to
> develop a delay-tolerant peer to peer application utilizing the mesh
> networking functionality of XOs, so messages can be forwarded from one
> machine to another, hopefully reaching the recipient or an XO
> connected to the Internet. Messages that reach the Internet can be
> displayed on a map, a model successfully used in Haiti by Ushahidi. If
> anyone in the Santa Barbara or Los Angeles area has an XO they could
> let us use for the next month or two, please send me an email! I would
> really appreciate it.
>
> Thank you,
> Danny Iland
> iland at cs.ucsb.edu
> (661) 347-1437
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