[Interop-dev] A survey of community network management solutions

[Mitar]

Hi!

> The new version of nodeshot has something interesting that is not
> mentioned in that table which is a notification system so that users >
can know of what happens around them if they want to.

Interesting. So like a community content and communication features. I
think that is a good point. Network management solutions in community
networks often grow into those directions.

In wlan slovenija we used Python for this reason. We were then able to
integrate Django, Python, nodewatcher v2, Django CMS all together. So
not developing those as features in nodewatcher v2, but still making
them share database, models, etc. In v3 we work on a more explicit
modularity.

> There are also a few other modules like a simple CMS to write content
> pages, login with social networks, a tool to contact a subset or all the
> users and so on.
> 
> The curious thing, which I often ask myself why, is that most of those
> programs are written in python but do not share any common library.

I agree. With nodewatcher v3 we are making all functionalities a Python
modules. It should be relatively easy then to extract them into a
stand-alone package which can be used by itself, or as a nodewatcher
module. Once a function is encapsulated with a clean API, then it is
much easier to make it stand-alone as well.


Mitar

> That's why in the new nodeshot we are develping the topology parser in a
> separate pure python library hoping that more communities will join
> forces: https://github.com/ninuxorg/netdiff
> 
> I believe a similar approach could be used also for generating
> configurations.
> 
> Federico
> 
> 
> 
> On 05/21/2015 01:41 PM, Mitar wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Please help us fill in the spreadsheet of community network management
>> solutions out there. We filled in those we know about, but even those
>> only partially. So if in your network you are using some solutions for
>> network management, please fill it in:
>>
>> https://goo.gl/JbD4VC
>>
>> As we are working on nodewatcher v3 we are trying to keep up with
>> developments of others. We will also use this data in the paper we are
>> writing about managing community networks. Feel free to use the data as
>> well. If you strongly feel that some column is missing, add it, but
>> remember that it has to be filled for all rows to be really useful.
>>
>> Spreadsheet is CC0.
>>
>>
>> Mitar
>>
> 
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