[Interop-dev] GSoC 2017 student application

[Xiang Gao]

Great thanks. I have experience for network visualization and ready to get started. Should I write a proposal to Freifunk?


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

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