Batphone Hackathon: Register here »
After a tornado, earthquake, wildfire or flood, when electrical lines, telephone cables and cell phone towers are all down, fear and anxiety increase and lives are lost because family-members, neighbors and community leaders can’t reach each other.
The D4H network is joining the Tribal Digital Village, InSTEDD, and the Serval Project to test a system for infrastructureless telephony that can be contained in a backpack and air dropped into disaster areas. It has the Batphone nickname because one part of its open-source software package is a protocol called BATMAN (Better Approach To Mobile Adhoc Networking). Visit http://www.servalproject.org for more details on the hardware and software.
We’re inviting folks to a Hackathon session to uncover and address any flaws in our assumptions, logic, software and hardware. You can join us in person or participate online. Whichever option you choose, please fill out the registration form below.
Sunday Nov. 20, 2011 | 10am – 5pm PST (GMT – 8:00) | Onsite: Tribal Digital Village- 36146 Pala Temecula Rd. Pala, CA 92059 | On Twitter: Follow @merelyanode and #Batphone. If you plan to join us either in person or online, please register…
Tags: ad-hoc, adhoc, Android, Batman, batphone, community wireless, DIY, hackathon, mesh, Paul Gardner-Stephen, Serval Project, Tribal Digital Village, Village Telco