[Nodedb-interop] why this list? goals and visions

[L. Aaron Kaplan]

sorry, this went out to klosch only. Wanted to reply-all ;-))

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> From: "L. Aaron Kaplan" <(spam-protected)>
> Date: December 7, 2009 12:20:23 PM GMT+01:00
> To: :k <(spam-protected)>
> Subject: Re: [Nodedb-interop] changed summary text of our group
> 
> Hi !
> 
> Ok, a biref summary what started this list...
> Ramon, Mitar, Joseph, Socrates and a few others (sorry if I dont remember every name now who was standig there at this moment) 
> were in Rome and we decided that it would be good to have some kind of common "language" between the node DBs.
> The reasoning is that we could develop apps and services which could work on any of our community Wi-Fi networks.
> 
> At this time Mitar presented their very interesting and good Lubljana node DB.
> However, both Vienna, Athens and the Catalan network already have node DBs and it is hard to simply throw it away and use a new one.
> 
> So Ramon had a suggestion some months ago already to define a common XML schema or something similar which can help us to have a common format. The idea being that if someone programs for that format, people can provide the data this way.
> 
> So you see , we are just at the beginning of this idea and it would be good if everyone here can explain the structure node DBs to each other as a start.
> ( I will post ours soon, (not the data, just the strucuture hehe) ).
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> 
> But of course , for this list , anything which lets our networks "talk" to each other is on topic.
> See this mailing list as the "interoperability working group" :)
> 
> best,
> a.
> 
> 
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> On Dec 7, 2009, at 12:05 PM, :k wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> do I get it right, that we are talking about a serverside app, which
>> lets communities enter their credentials and automated systems (like
>> firmware builders) just get that ptofile as simple key:value pairs?
>> 
>> I'd suggest some code using couchdb or mongodb. If enough time we can
>> have possibly something up til the congress. 
>> 
>> Or is this the place for discussing the IP scheme itself?
>> 
>> 
>> thanx for clearance,
>> kloschi
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to
>> stop reading them. ”
>>                                                         — Ray Bradbury
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