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Jo Walsh | 6 Sep 2006 15:43
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Fw: [GCA] microsoft out of India

dear wsfii'ers,

I'm having an interesting time this week in Timisoara, Romania at
http://eclectictechcarnival.org/ , a women-only hacker camp
co-organised by the genderchangers group in amsterdam. (This is the
first one I've made it to; I hear Paula was at last year's.)

Here's some India-related FOSS news from their list.

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The article is in spanish but basically talks about Kerala  (south of
India) and the intention of put free operating systems.

http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=36836

Here info in english:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&q=microsoft+kerala+schools&btnG=Search+News
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Nagarjuna G. | 7 Sep 2006 13:00
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Re: Fw: [GCA] microsoft out of India

On 9/6/06, Jo Walsh <jo <at> frot.org> wrote:
> dear wsfii'ers,
>
> I'm having an interesting time this week in Timisoara, Romania at
> http://eclectictechcarnival.org/ , a women-only hacker camp
> co-organised by the genderchangers group in amsterdam. (This is the
> first one I've made it to; I hear Paula was at last year's.)
>
> Here's some India-related FOSS news from their list.
>

This is a result of the movement FSF India initiated with support from
Trade Unions, Teachers unions and Teachers Assosciations and other
social organizations in the state which helped the Govt to take this
positive step.  FSFI recently developed a special distribution based
on Debian for schools in Kerala and training thousands of teachers in
the state.  It is a massive training program of free software for
teachers, possibly may not have happened any where in the world.   We
do hope this will sustain.

Nagarjuna
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Hitesh Shetty | 10 Sep 2006 11:22
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<newbie> olsr

Hello Every Body,
My name is Hitesh Shetty,
I wanted some information about OLSR.
Actually I have interest in the functioning of olsr.
I wanted to know as much about the olsr as possible.
Im quite familiar with some basics which I've read from books.

Allow me to transcript what I know and please correct me wherever appropriate.

Need for Ad-Hoc routing algorithms:

1) Traditional wired routing algo's will not work effeciently or fail
totally since these algorithms have not been designed for a highly
dynamic topology, assymetric links or interference.

2) Routing in ad-hoc n/w cannot rely on layer-3 alone, routing info
should be based on lower layers (radio links) for issues of
connectivity or interference.

3) A centralized approach can easily prove to be a bottle neck.

4) Many nodes need routing capabilities.

5) Ad-hoc networks would have to work mostly based on connectionless
principle, reason being that if a 3-way TCP handshake is established
for each and every request , with dynamic changing routing information
, establishment and maintenance of connection causes a lot of
overhead.

Existing Ad-Hoc routing algorithms:
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gil forcada | 10 Sep 2006 11:39

Re: <newbie> olsr

hi,

maybe the best place to ask about olsr is his website: http://www.olsr.org

their mailist: http://olsr.org/index.cgi?action=mlist

cheers

en/na Hitesh Shetty va dir:
> Hello Every Body,
> My name is Hitesh Shetty,
> I wanted some information about OLSR.
> Actually I have interest in the functioning of olsr.
> I wanted to know as much about the olsr as possible.
> Im quite familiar with some basics which I've read from books.
>
> Allow me to transcript what I know and please correct me wherever
> appropriate.
>
> Need for Ad-Hoc routing algorithms:
>
> 1) Traditional wired routing algo's will not work effeciently or fail
> totally since these algorithms have not been designed for a highly
> dynamic topology, assymetric links or interference.
>
> 2) Routing in ad-hoc n/w cannot rely on layer-3 alone, routing info
> should be based on lower layers (radio links) for issues of
> connectivity or interference.
>
> 3) A centralized approach can easily prove to be a bottle neck.
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Simon Knight | 10 Sep 2006 11:55
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Re: <newbie> olsr

Sounds like someone has a homework assignment ;)

There is a lot of documentation on the OLSR website, including the
thesis which I beleive started the OLSR implementation.

The source code is available, surely that is sufficient to explain the codebase.

OLSR is very usable. Quagga support would be nice, but it has been
successfully deployed in medium to large scale networks.

We plan to implement it here in Adelaide in the coming 6 months or so.

Simon

On 9/10/06, gil forcada <gilforcada <at> guifi.net> wrote:
> hi,
>
> maybe the best place to ask about olsr is his website: http://www.olsr.org
>
> their mailist: http://olsr.org/index.cgi?action=mlist
>
> cheers
>
> en/na Hitesh Shetty va dir:
> > Hello Every Body,
> > My name is Hitesh Shetty,
> > I wanted some information about OLSR.
> > Actually I have interest in the functioning of olsr.
> > I wanted to know as much about the olsr as possible.
> > Im quite familiar with some basics which I've read from books.
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Hitesh Shetty | 10 Sep 2006 20:31
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Re: <newbie> olsr

On 9/10/06, Simon Knight <simon.knight <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Sounds like someone has a homework assignment ;)
>

Not actually, the reason why I needed some information was to
understand the difference between olsr and other proprietary ad-hoc
algorithms  :-)

> There is a lot of documentation on the OLSR website, including the
> thesis which I beleive started the OLSR implementation.
>

I've been through the site and the documentation , but unfortunately i
couldnt find information on the structure of the C files

> The source code is available, surely that is sufficient to explain the codebase.

Im sure the source code is as huge as other codes and I guess that
wouldnt be much of a help, unless i know how each one fits in the
overall working......

Regards
Hitesh Shetty
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Simon Knight | 11 Sep 2006 02:45
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Re: <newbie> olsr

http://www.olsr.org/docs/report_html/node68.html
?

On 9/11/06, Hitesh Shetty <hitesh.p.shetty <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/10/06, Simon Knight <simon.knight <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> > Sounds like someone has a homework assignment ;)
> >
>
> Not actually, the reason why I needed some information was to
> understand the difference between olsr and other proprietary ad-hoc
> algorithms  :-)
>
> > There is a lot of documentation on the OLSR website, including the
> > thesis which I beleive started the OLSR implementation.
> >
>
> I've been through the site and the documentation , but unfortunately i
> couldnt find information on the structure of the C files
>
> > The source code is available, surely that is sufficient to explain the codebase.
>
> Im sure the source code is as huge as other codes and I guess that
> wouldnt be much of a help, unless i know how each one fits in the
> overall working......
>
> Regards
> Hitesh Shetty
>
> _______________________________________________
> wsfii-discuss mailing list
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Hitesh Shetty | 11 Sep 2006 12:26
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Re: <newbie> olsr

On 9/11/06, Simon Knight <simon.knight <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.olsr.org/docs/report_html/node68.html
> ?
>
Thank you for the link ....
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Sascha Meinrath | 11 Sep 2006 18:05

OLSR & HSLS & etc.

Hi Hitesh,

> Not actually, the reason why I needed some information was to
> understand the difference between olsr and other proprietary ad-hoc
> algorithms  :-)

You might also be interested in HSLS:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazy_Sighted_Link_State_Routing_Protocol

If you have more specific questions feel free to drop an e-mail to:

cu-wireless-dev <at> cuwireless.net

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gil forcada | 12 Sep 2006 10:04

meeting in WOS

hi all,

some time ago I write in this mailinglist about going to WoS and doing the
presentation about SNP as the wiki claims (
http://www.okfn.org/wsfii/wiki/WizardsOfOs )

where, and when can we meet to make the speech?

see you in berlin ;)

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