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The list will serve as a discussion ground for the deployment and use of a open mesh network for people in Mumbai to use. The primary objective is to build a local rich data functioning municipal area wireless mesh network open to all, with arms-length punctuated Internet access a future possibility.

Anyone willing to either help build the network, using known mesh technology and community owned and run hardware, or to build projects (art, games, catalogues, collaborative performances etc) that will showcase network capabilities, or to research open technologies to optimally strengthen the network, or to research and develop new technology layers on the network, or to collectively build or provide access to storage layers to power data resources, or *anything* not covered in the previous descriptions but have the possibility of growing value for all, please do join in and let's get the ball rolling.

fyi the first mesh node was built by LUGgers at HBCSE last month, and this list has grown out of the person-to-person discussions following that, to look for ways to bring this technology to bear for this *urban* area. Aside from Nagarjuna and myself, artists and educators and techie enthusiasts are coming together in the hope that more such efforts will catalyse the Mumbai mesh into self-sustaining growth.

The practical functioning of the mesh will depend on and grow together from many community level networks in discrete but contiguous parts of the city. As far as the technology goes, we look for expertise (now and in the future) in antenna construction, hardware refabrication, OLSR, streaming, data cacheing and database management, content management and many more. We are lucky that listmembers here live in wide-spread areas of the city, and hope they will use the preliminary workshops and events conceptualised and being planned, to learn and to teach others to build out from there.

Welcome.

Vickram

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