[Interop-dev] hello new subscribers

[Matthias Schiffer]

On 05/19/2015 06:18 PM, L. Aaron Kaplan wrote:
> Hi new members to this list!
> 
> 
> Let me start off with some brief history:
> 
> We started the interop-dev list some years ago now after a meeting of community wireless networks in Roma at ninux / fusolab. Basically the idea back then was that the community wireless networks are re-inventing their stuff all over the place in parallel. Since we are not financially powerful as large corporations or so, we need to be efficient with our time.
> 
> Hence the first idea to work on one node database. However, it turned out quickly that there was no single agreement on a single software: community wireless folks love to hack on "their" own open source system. So the next idea was to standardise an API or basic functionality.
> 
> And this is where we are now. I see fantastic progress by a couple of people, mostly Federico right now. 
> 
> But... this being said, now it's your turn for the new members to this list to speak up!
> Do you want to briefly introduce yourselves?
> What brought you here? What motivates you? What do you want to see done? What do you want to contribute?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Aaron.

Hello interop-dev!

I'm Matthias (NeoRaider on Github / in IRC) from the Freifunk project of
Lübeck, Germany. Frederico suggested me to join the list at the Wireless
Community Weekend in Berlin last week.

I'm one of the core developers of the Gluon firmware framework used by
many German Freifunk communities. As we're also developing visualization
systems in and around Gluon, we're in the constant process of inventing,
refining and extending information formats like those NetJSON tries to
define. The other Gluon core developer Nils, who has joined this list as
well, is the original author of the ffmap and MeshViewer projects used
by many Freifunk communities for visualization. Long story short, we'd
love to make our tools more interoperable by making Gluon emit NetJSON
and add NetJSON support to ffmap/MeshViewer :)

You can see parts of our current data formats at [1] and [2] (look for
the entry "68:72:51:20:db:cc" to see the current version, most nodes
aren't updated to the latest Gluon version yet). Some information in our
current format is redundant as we're trying to provide backwards
compatiblity for at least a few Gluon versions. We're also currently
replacing the alfred/batadv-vis-internal topology information format
with an own extensible JSON format (to make it independent of alfred and
generally more flexible).

As you can see, many parts of our "nodeinfo" and "statistics" are
already similar to the "Network Device Configuration" and "Device
Monitoring" NetJSON objects. For the parts that aren't, I hope we'll
find time soon to think up proposals how to extend NetJSON to support
all of our usecases :)

Matthias


[1] http://metameute.de/~freifunk/alfred/nodeinfo.json
[2] http://metameute.de/~freifunk/alfred/statistics.json

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