Re: Introduction
Willy Smith <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.wireless.cu-wireless |
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| Organization | SSC |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Thursday 29 April 2004 23:49, you wrote: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 08:49:54PM -0500, Willy Smith wrote: > > What I'd like to do on LinuxGazette especially is to write more about > > this development and get some more participants involved. I've jumped the > > gun a little on this project - I first titled it an "Open Source Mesh > > Project", but now I realize that it's not Open Source, it's a "free > > downloadable boot image". So, I'm wondering what your intentions are in > > this regard, and if there are some restrictions in the software which > > would inhibit it from becoming OS. > > Willy, > > The project is absolutely open-source, Great! > however, we are behind in > publishing our source repository. Do you need help in this area, whether technical, hosting or something else? Have you considered putting the project on SourceForge? Maybe you could give a little background here of the status quo and goals. > The Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless > Network uses a 4-clause BSD license (below). > > Our sources essentially "wrap" the NetBSD sources. You can think of > it as a kit to which you "just add NetBSD." We get a lot of leverage > out of the NetBSD host tools; it should be possible to cross-build our > station boot images on virtually any operating system and architecture > you can think of. That's good news. > We have more work to do than we have developer-hours to do it, so we > are definitely interested in Linux Gazette's help to enlist new folks! I think we can find some people for the project. For example, there are some really talented people sending me articles from all over the world; I suspect there are other people whose English is less than great and who are afraid to write articles, but who could work on the project. > *** LICENSE *** > > > Copyright (c) 2005 Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center I love working with people who are stuck in the future. I have a few technical questions which I will post under another header. Regards, -- Willy Smith Editor in Chief www.LinuxGazette.com www.a42.com Panama _______________________________________________ CU-Wireless mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cu.groogroo.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/cu-wireless Project Page: http://cuwireless.ucimc.org