<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Thank you, Mitar! This looks excellent. I will look into it. This will definitely be very useful!<div><br></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div>Rory</div></div><div class="gmail-yj6qo gmail-ajU" style="outline:none;padding:10px 0px;width:22px;margin:2px 0px 0px"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 2:45 PM Mitar <<a href="mailto:mitar@tnode.com">mitar@tnode.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi!<br>
<br>
There is:<br>
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It is still operational and feel free to continue to use it.<br>
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Mitar<br>
<br>
> Dear Battlemesh friends,<br>
> <br>
> I write to solicit feedback about a project I am starting which will <br>
> gather together a repository of mesh projects, activities, and people <br>
> into an open access database. I'm conceiving of this as two subprojects.<br>
> <br>
> – Subproject 1: A database in some form, operated in a "crowd-sourced" <br>
> mode in which everyone is welcome to submit entries for themselves or <br>
> others, and I (working with a research assistant) will moderate to <br>
> ensure some consistent quality of information in accordance with <br>
> guidelines that I'd like to establish with feedback from this community. <br>
> I can commit to hosting this, but I would be open to moving hosting to <br>
> community-supported infrastructure if such a thing were possible. I will <br>
> maintain the database in an open access mode online for anyone to use <br>
> for any project.<br>
> <br>
> – As an example of one such usage, I am also working on Subproject 2: a <br>
> data visualization that I am developing for release in concert with a <br>
> book on mesh that I hope to have published within the next 2-3 years. <br>
> The data visualization would draw selectively from the database to <br>
> present certain entries in relation to concepts from my book. This would <br>
> be a personal project, not subject to oversight from the community, <br>
> although I would certainly warmly welcome any feedback and comments. I <br>
> would invite (and even to a degree support) other folks working on <br>
> similar such projects that would draw from the database.<br>
> <br>
> So far we are just collecting everything in a spreadsheet, and trying to <br>
> think about what kind of taxonomy / data model would be most appropriate <br>
> for representing all of these examples. We're collecting everything from <br>
> community network projects, to protocols and other software, as well as <br>
> hardware projects, and even individual people.<br>
> <br>
> I present this here with 3 questions at the moment:<br>
> <br>
> (1) Is this an appropriate forum for me to communicate with you all <br>
> about this? I'm not sure how active this mailing list is anymore and <br>
> whether there may be many more folks in the community now who are not on <br>
> this list. As I mentioned, I write to solicit feedback about any of the <br>
> above, and at some point would even like to host a workshop or <br>
> discussion where others might offer comments about things like: <br>
> procedures, data models, appropriate technologies for hosting, data & <br>
> privacy, or any other concerns. I saw that there was some mention of <br>
> this at WBMv15 (<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__pad.cas.cat_WBMv15&d=DwIDaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=xQ27Xpp_1MwpAfMieAaTnw&m=EGXkcoIv0_tiXEH34bfnzsw2PazCJM_3mk6JE6in6oc9Vhb03dTIAleAbBrBgFqa&s=ot73o1_1utGAgBI5Cl5Bk1VfOJuE94ku7UiHXuBfxBI&e=" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__pad.cas.cat_WBMv15&d=DwIDaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=xQ27Xpp_1MwpAfMieAaTnw&m=EGXkcoIv0_tiXEH34bfnzsw2PazCJM_3mk6JE6in6oc9Vhb03dTIAleAbBrBgFqa&s=ot73o1_1utGAgBI5Cl5Bk1VfOJuE94ku7UiHXuBfxBI&e=</a>  – thanks, Paul!). Perhaps we <br>
> could host such a conversation at a future Battlemesh, though I plan to <br>
> complete much work on this before then.<br>
> <br>
> (2) Is anyone aware of prior work that partly or fully achieves similar <br>
> goals?<br>
> <br>
> (3) Would anyone like to be involved either by contributing information <br>
> & entries, or in some other capacity? As I've described, for me this is <br>
> a mix of a community and a personal project, but I do hope that the <br>
> community component can genuinely be so: a product of collective <br>
> endeavor from Battlemesh folks, and mesh network enthusiasts more widely.<br>
> <br>
> Thank you kindly for reading and I look forward to any comments!<br>
> <br>
> Kind regards,<br>
> Rory<br>
> <br>
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