<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Great thanks. I have experience for network visualization and ready to get started. Should I write a proposal to Freifunk?</div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="font-family: 'lucida Grande', Verdana;" class=""><br class=""></div></div>
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 1, 2017, at 16:49, Nemesis <<a href="mailto:nemesis@ninux.org" class="">nemesis@ninux.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">I'm contributor OpenWISP, NetJSON and Ninux and I have been mentor and<br class="">organization admin for Freifunk a few times in the previous years<br class="">(almost every year since 2011), I know personally many people in<br class="">Freifunk and we are good friends.<br class=""><br class="">All these projects have a slightly different scope but have one common<br class="">denominator: they want to make it easier to build bottom-up computer<br class="">networks (wireless, mesh, wired, radio, fiber, whatever technology).<br class=""><br class="">The NetJSON implementation ideas present in<br class=""><a href="http://openwisp.org/gsoc/ideas-2017.html" class="">http://openwisp.org/gsoc/ideas-2017.html</a> are focused on the<br class="">configuration part (NetJSON DeviceConfiguration), which is the current<br class="">focus of OpenWISP 2.<br class=""><br class="">NetJSON is an open format and can be implemented by any software.<br class="">My aim in trying to get NetJSON accepted as a mentoring organization was<br class="">to help it gain popularity, but I knew the chances were not very high so<br class="">I made sure to write the same project ideas in multiple places, because<br class="">I think those project ideas are valid and useful indipendently on which<br class="">umbrella organization works on them, be it Freifunk, Ninux or NetJSON.<br class="">Since in the <a href="http://ninux.org" class="">ninux.org</a> community network we are using the NetJSON<br class="">NetworkGraph objects to collect and visualize topology information, it<br class="">makes sense to keep working on this front with Freifunk, which is an<br class="">Umbrella organization for community networks.<br class=""><br class="">But this are just my ideas and do not represent the view of Freifunk as<br class="">I haven't had the time to discuss thoroughly with them. The number of<br class="">available projects will depend on the number of applications Freifunk gets.<br class=""><br class="">Therefore, if you like the project you were interested in, get involved<br class="">as soon as you can, show that you care, that you are able to improve it<br class="">so it can be useful to all the communities collaborating with Freifunk.<br class="">We are actively looking for new, valid and passionate contributors, if<br class="">you think you are one, show us!<br class=""><br class="">Federico<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">On 02/28/2017 07:28 PM, Xiang Gao wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Hi,<br class=""><br class="">Excuse my-ties, I wonder what relationship between OpenWisp and<br class="">Freifunk? I saw the NetJSON project in<br class=""> <a href="http://openwisp.org/gsoc/ideas-2017.html" class="">http://openwisp.org/gsoc/ideas-2017.html</a>, too.<br class=""><br class="">Best regards<br class="">Xiang<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Feb 28, 2017, at 20:37, Nemesis <<a href="mailto:nemesis@ninux.org" class="">nemesis@ninux.org</a><br class=""><<a href="mailto:nemesis@ninux.org" class="">mailto:nemesis@ninux.org</a>>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Hi,<br class=""><br class="">NetJSON has not been accepted for the GSOC 2017, but you can still apply<br class="">with Freifunk for the same ideas, see<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://wiki.freifunk.net/Ideas#Netjsongraph.js:_canvas_and_geographic_data" class="">https://wiki.freifunk.net/Ideas#Netjsongraph.js:_canvas_and_geographic_data</a><br class=""><br class="">Best regards<br class="">Federico<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">On 02/22/2017 07:16 PM, Nemesis wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 02/22/2017 03:34 PM, GeekPlux wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Great thanks for all.<br class=""><br class="">Sounds very cool and useful. I don't know about wireless dev, but know a<br class="">generic data format is important. Do I need to understand OpenWISP2?<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">You don't need to understand OpenWISP2 in order to work on<br class="">netjsongraph.js.<br class=""><br class="">You need to know NetJSON, be sure to read the information provided on<br class="">the website and the RFC.<br class=""><br class="">Federico<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>