3 Apr
2014
3 Apr
'14
11:54 a.m.
Unfortunately the broadband hamnet devs wouldn't accept any help. Its really
unfortunate. I offered numerous times to help with porting to ubiquiti, port to newer
version of openwrt, write up documentation etc. I needed just a bit of access to the
developers to make sure i wasnt duplicating work and staying inline with the roadmap etc.
They completely ignored all offers and actually kicked me off the mailing list. I am based
in Austin, went to meetings, did show and tell of various bits of kit etc.
Most impolite and uncivilized behavior.
I'm a system and network engineer with almost 25 years of experience. I've worked
for some of the world's largest web properties, built mesh networks before they were
popular etc etc etc. I offered to help for free. The number one complaint of the folks was
the lack of others to help and lack of compensation. However they refused anyone new who
wanted to help and censored me and others who pointed that out. They also were opposed to
user content (wiki, blog) and wanted to retain 100% control. Very much not a FLOSS project
unfortunately.
It was most disappointing, as they've got the best olsr integration for openwrt.
I've considered forking the project but decided to move on to qmp.cat firmware (bmx
based) instead.
On April 2, 2014 11:40:25 PM CDT, kb9mwr(a)gmail.com wrote:
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I can echo a lot of what Robbie wrote.
My dad was in broadcast radio when I was younger. I read an article
by Larry Kollar, KC4WZK on the Amateur Packet Radio Network that was
floating around on dial-up BBS's and really caught my attention. That
kind of sealed the deal that I needed to get into the hobby.
When the locals gave me a copy of NOS, that was great. Before you
know it I had two NOS boxes networked using NE2000 drivers. Moved
from 1200 to 9600, and drooled when reading the VE3JF higher speed
pages. We even did webpages on 9600 baud RF in the mid 90's when we
all gravitated to Linux.
Lots of learning and fun.
Moving forward if you know anyone in the hobby with coding skills
there are plenty of things that can be done. Hopefully in the future
we can attract a few more of these types when they see the relevance
ham radio can offer with higher speed networks and that sort.
I am sure Chris could use a hand. How about a openwrt package for
hams? Be that out of part 15 frequency control, or something like
rip44d
http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/devel/packages
Then there is always application ideas on 44net. I am impressed with
what is out there already.
On the RF side the broadband hamnet firmware developers could probably
always use a hand too.
73
Steve, KB9MWR
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