[Olpc-socal] OLPC for research project?

[Everett Batey]

Danny, If you are not already on the crisiscommons mailing list,
you might want to rerun your interests there.

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On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 2:04 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


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