Yes this is where i reside!
Layer 8 is the social community level of the architecture for the Open Systems Interconnection Reference Model!
So glad to have found a home!
Cven (picture below) from c-base and Freifunk in Berlin pointed this out late one night at an après Jungle Hut party in Dharamsala!
They developed an emergent community mesh network of thousands of people in Berlin and the critical layer was 8!
Redshoes you will luv these guys!
I think my head is going to explode!
There are so many interesting people here doing great work and i have discovered numerous possibilities to resolve some of the problems that i want to solve!
Today was an 8-9 hour hike in the mountains to view some of the 15 antennae that are part of the Tibetan Technology Centre mesh network. A french guy, and israeli and two tibetans in trainning maintain and set this thing up. Amazing! Their biggest sustainability problem is finding locals who knwo lynux. We went by one small temple where the priest was a wild japanese guy who helped set up the anteannae at his temple, he was surfing the net and taking webcam images of the local kids when they stopped to look! So cute!
Hugo is now afraid of me when i call out his name - seems i have way too many ideas that he can no longer keep up. I think i may have managed to set up a full day vlogging workshop in new delhi with some young creative kids doing stuff in the north east. That will be so great!
Tonight we are going to a wsfii meetup party in the jungle hut in mcleod ganj near dharamsala. Along the way i am in heaven as i get to see the most beautiful tibetan tankas and statuettes ever! Hundreds and hundreds of some of the best. The streets are narrow and rickety, and these treasures are found everywhere! It is like being in dreamland! The romantic notions of this place have come back in the night.
I have another entry sitting on the hotel desktop computer as the dialup kept stopping on me! I will try and load it tonight or tomorrow!
And the conference has not even started yet! I have to pace myself!
Well! I leave in a few hours for Dharamsala India. Unbelievable really! Just filling up my data key with documents and printing some off to read on the long journey. I will send dispatches once I get there.
In the meantime you can read up about the AirJaldi conference and watch & listen to some tv & radio media surrounding it.
The book on the table at this ogWiFi meeting - Wireless Networking in the Developing World - is the recommended reading for AirJaldi.
This photo of some of the ogWiFi gang was taken on monday at Le Petit Chicago our first Hotspot in Hull. We are making progress here in Ottawa and I am learning tons! We had two visitors that evening, Hugo who is also going to AirJaldi from Ile Sans Fil in Montreal. He has helped us out tremendously in the last week. Alex the pres was setting stuff up in the background & Mr. Redshoes also popped by.
This week in Ottawa there the Alternative Telecommunications Conference organized by the Canadian Research Alliance for Community Innovation and Networking (CRACIN). If I could i would be there! It will be great!
Gotta go!
Alternative Telecommunications Conference - Oct. 19-21
All the good stuff happens while i am away! If anyone i know goes, i would luv to read your notes!
Join a gathering of telecommunications policy experts, community groups, public interest advocates, and academics to discuss and debate the future of telecommunications policy and regulation in Canada, Ottawa, October 19-21, 2006.
Everyone wants to make friends with the People’s Republic of China. The acquisition of cheap gadgets, trinkets and computer bits is blindsignting us to the PRCs atrocities. The latest - a young
25-year old nun, was shot dead by Chinese security forces, a group of children apparently traveling with her was marched in single file through advance base camp at Mount Cho Oyu, according to witnesses.
Tibetan sources say that a young Tibetan boy may also have been killed when the group came under fire.
The British climber, police officer Steve Lawes, was among a group of climbers and Sherpas at Cho Oyu’s base camp who witnessed both the shooting on September 30 and the subsequent capture of the Tibetan children who were among a larger group of more than 70 Tibetans crossing the glaciated Nangpa-la pass en route to Nepal and exile. Mr Lawes said that approximately half an hour after he and others had witnessed the group come under fire, a group of about 10 to 12 children, who seemed to be aged between six and ten years old, were marched into advance base camp by three soldiers with assault rifles.
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees apparently provided support for an employee of the Tibetan Refugee Reception Center to travel on October 9 to accompany the refugees to the Tibetan Refugees Reception Center. Tibetans traveling through Nepalese border areas to Kathmandu have been at increasing risk of refoulement (the return of persons to a country where they fear persecution) over the past two years due to China’s strong trade and diplomatic ties with Nepal.
Tibetan children in Chinese custody after shooting at Nangpa Pass
International Campaign for Tibet
October 9th, 2006
Xeni.net/trek has links to other blogs, photographs and video’s of the incident.
That Made in China stamp is gonna guide my purchases, cuz no national leader has the hutzpah to stand up to China!
Did anyone hear that Canada and the Russian Federation were the only 2 countries out of 47 that voted against the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples!
29th of June, the Human Rights Council adopted by a roll-call vote of 30 in favour to 2 against and 12 abstentions a resolution on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
What is up with that! Have i been living under a rock or something? Canada was apparently integral in the drafting of this document. Anyway I can’t seem to find details as to why the Gov voted against this! Does anyone else know?
This is an excellent addition to my collection of maps of the mid east crisis - Maps of War which provides 5000 years of history in a 90 seconds animated map with a timeline that associates dates with the territorial occupancy of mid east empires between 3000 b.c.e. and now! The map artifact evolves as the issues does and culminates with two big dots - Israel and Iraq.
Hugo is visiting Ottawa from Montreal, and well i may have mislead him into thinking Ottawa was hip. Megan and Jenn were going strong to "these boots were made for walkin’!" in this photo
while a gaggle of ladyfest organizers did some doowap backup at the Shanghai Restaurant with China Doll spinning the karaoke machine in her blue froufrou regalia!
This all innoncently started with Dalal’s Art Exhibit and ended with tipsy mum’s eating pizza slices at the local pizza joint - the man who served us was dubfounded at his out of character rebel rousers. Thank goodness for the fruit in those lychee martini’s or else things could have completely gotten out of control!
Lucky for us Paul Galipeau a professional photographer documented all these happenings!
I have only bought art on 2 occasions and both times it was Erin’s work she speaks directly to your soul.
Vernissage : Friday October 13th 7:30pm to 10:30pm
Preview : Thursday October 12th 1:00pm to 3:00pm
ARTGUISE GALLERY
590 BANK STREET OTTAWA ONTARIO CANADA
Artguise is thrilled to introduce the breathtaking work of Ottawa based painter Erin Roberston, in her first solo show at Artguise.An accomplished oil painter with a zeal for employing finite methods and materials, Erin’s work stands in a class of its own. The compositions are greatly layered with atmospheric levels of depth which are vibrant and rich with mood. It is the artist’s feeling that: Sign’s of Life is a body of landscapes in oil and tar on canvas reflecting an interest in the juxtaposition of the natural environment and industrial growth. These recent paintings exemplify mans footprint on the contemporary landscape.There exists an otherworldly quality to many of the pieces; beautifying elements in our surroundings which exist in such conflict with one another.The show succeeds in being both cerebral and sublime. Please join us at her opening for a chance to view the work and to meet the painter.
For Media inquiries or other general information contact: Jason Vaughan or Brandon McVittie
artguise@on.aibn.com or 613 238 3803www.artguise.ca
This is sooooo exciting! 15 more sleeps!
Check out some of the news bits - http://summit.airjaldi.com/home/about/in-the-news/ and the program - http://summit.airjaldi.com/home/program/
