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From: Charles N W. <ch...@th...> - 2008-04-09 20:59:28
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All, First off I have opened the preprep-devel list to all comers. We can create a separate project management list if need be. Second I am officially launching the Los Angeles WiFI project at SGVLUG this Thursday. I will be proposing it as a large scale test bed for routing, Voice over IP, Ipv6 and IPTV using open source software. I think this will get a lot of people very excited (especially as anyone who actively contributes/participates in the project will get free access to the network). I will also touch on InfrasBox and how knowledge learned from the WiFI project will feed back into the product development life cycle, and create a vastly better Linux distribution for internet scale operations. I have been doing a lot of research into various areas, and updating the Wiki, and have identified 2 major areas that are essential to project success: 1) Voice over IP service. Mike Fedyk is the resident VoIP expert and is gaining a massive amount of carrier grade knowledge at his current job. This is excellent. Keep up the good work Mike. Also Ralf has a decent amount of background with VoIP as well. See http://wiki.infrasbox.com/index.php/LAWIFI_VoIPStuff for more details. A number of technical people in the Los Angeles and Orange County area are interested in VoIP. This gives them a perfect opportunity to build out a large scale VoIP network and learn about QOS, billing, intelligent routing, multiple peers etc. I think we will have plenty of help in the VoIP area :) I will be sending out a project announcement to the local asterisk users group and putting a post on the voip-info wiki next Tuesday. I have also created a preprep-voip list as I imagine that a lot of discussion will be happening that is specific to VoIP and wireless in Los Angeles. 2) IPTV service. Dallas Legan is our resident media expert and I have tasked him with building out a prototype media server system using VideoLan. I think that having an IPTV service setup that we can demo to investors is a huge win. Especially if its optimized for mobile delivery (3g/4g/LT/WiFI). Also Larry Hart is an excellent resource for testing all sorts of media related services and is a very large media consumer. I am copying him on this e-mail as he isn't subscribed to the preprep-devel list. I believe that the media portion of the network needs some work and additional help, but it shouldn't be too hard to generate interest. The above services will be supported by a geographically distributed, fully fault tolerant back end infrastructure. More details on the Infrastructure components can be found at: http://wiki.infrasbox.com/index.php/LAWIFI_Infrastructure I am taking on the task of building out the back end infrastructure. Phase 1 will include core services: DNS, RADIUS, DynDNS, and network health monitoring, and a handful of access points. Phase 2 will involve meshing the access points. Phase 3 will involve Ipv6 tunnel brokers, BGP cloud, MPLS etc. I figure that enough technically inclined people exist in the Los Angeles region who have a wide variety of skills in the various infrastructure areas to help out quite a bit. So I am going to spend the rest of the day 1) Fleshing out the project plan (see the current draft at http://wiki.infrasbox.com/index.php/TechOps_MGOT ) 2) Working on my presentation / project pitch for SGVLUG 3) Filling in more information on core network infrastructure. Once the project is launched this Thursday, I will be undertaking a marketing/development blitz: 1) Promoting the WiFI project at LugRadio live in San Francisco this weekend. 2) Promoting the WiFI project at Interop in Las Vegas at the end of April as well as gathering up information and contact info from various wireless vendors. 3) Present on project progress and technical details at BarCamp SanDiego in early May. 4) Present on project status and some technical details at the IEEE chapter in mid May. So let's get this thing launched guys!!!! Make some mega money! Charles N Wyble ch...@th... http://charlesnw.blogpsot.com (818) 280-7059 |
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From: Charles N W. <ch...@th...> - 2008-04-09 18:12:16
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All, First off I have opened the preprep-devel list to all comers. We can create a separate project management list if need be. Second I am officially launching the Los Angeles WiFI project at SGVLUG this Thursday. I will be proposing it as a large scale test bed for routing, Voice over IP, Ipv6 and IPTV using open source software. I think this will get a lot of people very excited (especially as anyone who actively contributes/participates in the project will get free access to the network). I will also touch on InfrasBox and how knowledge learned from the WiFI project will feed back into the product development life cycle, and create a vastly better Linux distribution for internet scale operations. I have been doing a lot of research into various areas, and updating the Wiki, and have identified 2 major areas that are essential to project success: 1) Voice over IP service. Mike Fedyk is the resident VoIP expert and is gaining a massive amount of carrier grade knowledge at his current job. This is excellent. Keep up the good work Mike. Also Ralf has a decent amount of background with VoIP as well. See http://wiki.infrasbox.com/index.php/LAWIFI_VoIPStuff for more details. A number of technical people in the Los Angeles and Orange County area are interested in VoIP. This gives them a perfect opportunity to build out a large scale VoIP network and learn about QOS, billing, intelligent routing, multiple peers etc. I think we will have plenty of help in the VoIP area :) I will be sending out a project announcement to the local asterisk users group and putting a post on the voip-info wiki next Tuesday. I have also created a preprep-voip list as I imagine that a lot of discussion will be happening that is specific to VoIP and wireless in Los Angeles. 2) IPTV service. Dallas Legan is our resident media expert and I have tasked him with building out a prototype media server system using VideoLan. I think that having an IPTV service setup that we can demo to investors is a huge win. Especially if its optimized for mobile delivery (3g/4g/LT/WiFI). Also Larry Hart is an excellent resource for testing all sorts of media related services and is a very large media consumer. I am copying him on this e-mail as he isn't subscribed to the preprep-devel list. I believe that the media portion of the network needs some work and additional help, but it shouldn't be too hard to generate interest. The above services will be supported by a geographically distributed, fully fault tolerant back end infrastructure. More details on the Infrastructure components can be found at: http://wiki.infrasbox.com/index.php/LAWIFI_Infrastructure I am taking on the task of building out the back end infrastructure. Phase 1 will include core services: DNS, RADIUS, DynDNS, and network health monitoring, and a handful of access points. Phase 2 will involve meshing the access points. Phase 3 will involve Ipv6 tunnel brokers, BGP cloud, MPLS etc. I figure that enough technically inclined people exist in the Los Angeles region who have a wide variety of skills in the various infrastructure areas to help out quite a bit. So I am going to spend the rest of the day 1) Fleshing out the project plan (see the current draft at http://wiki.infrasbox.com/index.php/TechOps_MGOT ) 2) Working on my presentation / project pitch for SGVLUG 3) Filling in more information on core network infrastructure. Once the project is launched this Thursday, I will be undertaking a marketing/development blitz: 1) Promoting the WiFI project at LugRadio live in San Francisco this weekend. 2) Promoting the WiFI project at Interop in Las Vegas at the end of April as well as gathering up information and contact info from various wireless vendors. 3) Present on project progress and technical details at BarCamp SanDiego in early May. 4) Present on project status and some technical details at the IEEE chapter in mid May. So let's get this thing launched guys!!!! Make some mega money! Charles N Wyble ch...@th... http://charlesnw.blogpsot.com (818) 280-7059 |
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From: Charles N W. <ch...@th...> - 2008-04-09 17:32:25
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Dallas/Larry, While researching IPTV and open source media streaming , I came across an interesting web site: http://osflash.org/ They have a large list of open source flash related projects: http://osflash.org/open_source_flash_projects I am building a wiki page for the Los Angeles WIFI project IPTV portion at http://wiki.infrasbox.com/index.php/LAWIFI_IPTV Trying to capture the various components of an IPTV build out and existing software that can serve those needs. Dallas, Feel free to add to that page with media software that looks interesting. I have added a few things and will be adding more to it throughout the day. Thanks guys. Charles N Wyble ch...@th... http://charlesnw.blogpsot.com (818) 280-7059 |
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From: Charles N W. <ch...@th...> - 2008-04-09 03:09:07
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All, I have put up a draft of my back end infrastructure plan as it currently stands. Please see http://wiki.infrasbox.com/index.php/LAWIF_Infrastructure for details. I'll be getting some more info later tonight on a server which I will need to put in our colo facility downtown ASAP. I'll let you know Tarry. Dallas/Ralf/Mike can I get your guys IP addresses please? Need to create a dyndns record for them and also do some performance testing and get moving on MPLS/BGP. Let's keep things moving guys. Thanks! Charles N Wyble ch...@th... http://charlesnw.blogpsot.com (818) 280-7059 |
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From: Charles N W. <ch...@th...> - 2008-03-31 00:37:50
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I have created a WiFI links page. See http://wiki.infrasbox.com/index.php/WiFILinks for details. It is just URLs for now. Feel free to help with the editing and put in titles. I have also updated the technical operations plan and defined the mission and SMART goals. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_%28project_management%29 for more info on SMART goals.) I also did a blog post on my success methodology which can be found at http://silent-victor.blogspot.com/2008/03/mgot-bit-of-gtd-mindmapping-person al.html I haven't done very many posts on that blog. I am going for quality of quantity there. The operations plan can be found at: http://wiki.infrasbox.com/index.php/TechOps_MGOT I still plan to have it completed by the end of the day (probably about 9:00 tonight or so). I would really like to hear back from Ralf/Dallas/Mike about the roles and responsibilities e-mail I sent out the other day. That would help in terms of making sure that tasks which are assigned are appropriate for your skillsets and passions. Let me know! :) -Charles Charles N Wyble ch...@th... http://charlesnw.blogpsot.com (818) 280-7059 |
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From: Charles N W. <ch...@th...> - 2008-03-30 23:00:26
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I have completed an early draft of the MGOT plan. Please see it at: http://wiki.infrasbox.com/index.php/TechOps_MGOT I'll be filling in objectives and tasks over the rest of the day. Still figuring out all the various pieces. Charles N Wyble ch...@th... http://charlesnw.blogpsot.com (818) 280-7059 |
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From: Charles N W. <ch...@th...> - 2008-03-29 16:25:57
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Team, I would like you to review the LAWIFI_GamePlan (http://wiki.infrasbox.com/index.php/LAWIFI_GamePlan) and give me any feedback. The software/hardware selections are based on my knowledge and research into the various areas. Please feel free to suggest alternatives etc. I will now work on an operations/implementation plan taking us through the next 2 quarters with a targeted code/feature complete date of September 1st 2008 and initial node/service launch at the central library on November 1st 2008. Based on the advice of my business advisory team, I have withdrawn mention of our mobile commerce intentions. We will still offer it, but it's a project that should be kept under wraps for a while. Thanks! Charles N Wyble ch...@th... http://charlesnw.blogpsot.com (818) 280-7059 |
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From: Charles N W. <ch...@th...> - 2008-03-26 04:38:49
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So I have been thinking over the various team members skills, and where we would all fit. Here is my initial rough cut: 1) Mike Fedyk. Voice over IP expert. He is rolling out a very comprehensive SIP solution at a good sized communications player. Having him focus on that for the next few months while the rest of us assemble and test core infrastructure seems like a good move. Once that is complete he can take his knowledge and experience with a carrier grade voice deployment and build out the VoIP infrastructure that we will need to serve the city. I also value his expertise with traffic shaping and Quality of Service. Mike you should probably try and spend some time getting familiar with Wireless Multimedia.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Multimedia_Extensions 2) Dallas Legan. Core networking and testing expert. He has a background in SNMP and perl programming. As we deploy code and changes into our test, staging and QA environments it is vital to gather information on the effects of those changes. Whether it's a change made to wired infrastructure, wireless access points, tcp tuning on a server etc. 3) Charles Wyble. Core network services such as RADIUS/FreeIPA and wireless bits (firmware selection/wireless security). I am happy to share this role with others if they are looking to learn more about these technologies and tools. I do my best to document my adventures as much as possible. I will also take the role of project manager/architect for now with things like role assignment, planning, task management etc. 4) Ralf Pieper. Technical sales/business development and relations. Ralf has expressed an interest in growing our technical sales channel. He has a high level understanding of the technologies involved and is very excited about them. As such I am happy to have him provide a bridge between the technology team and the business folks/customers. So that about sums up my initial thoughts/feelings around role assignment. Please feel free to reply to the list or me directly with comments/concerns etc. Charles N Wyble ch...@th... http://charlesnw.blogpsot.com (818) 280-7059 |
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From: Charles N W. <ch...@th...> - 2008-03-26 04:23:56
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All, I have made some updates to the LA Wifi game plan. It isn't complete yet, but I have a basic framework in place. See http://wiki.infrasbox.com/index.php/LAWIFI_GamePlan for details. I plan to finish it up by the end of the week. I am still evaluating software and in some cases selecting a solution (where there is a very clear winner such as FreeRADIUS) or putting together a short list for further evaluation (in the case of say router firmware or network health monitoring packages). I will send out another e-mail when I make any major changes and a final e-mail when I am ready for feedback. My goal is to have the game plan completed by Friday night and to gather feedback and create an execution plan on Saturday/Sunday. Then assign out the tasks and we can really get into working on this project in earnest. I believe we have a very strong infrastructure in place for development and QA, and have a good team assembled. Charles N Wyble ch...@th... http://charlesnw.blogpsot.com (818) 280-7059 |
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From: Charles N W. <ch...@th...> - 2008-03-22 00:45:05
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The WorkFlow page has been updated. Please see http://wiki.infrasbox.com/index.php/Workflow for details. QA and integration stuff hasn't been populated yet as we have quite a bit of work to do in dev before moving to integration/test/qa. I also updated the company details page and added an organization chart: http://wiki.infrasbox.com/index.php/OrgChart I'll be cutting tickets for various tasks shortly. I am not impressed with the SourceForge ticketing system. Am in the process of deploying Trac. Will send out details when that is completed. Should be done in the next hour or so. After I finish up the various administrative bits, I'll put together a complete architecture / operations plan and cut the tickets in Trac. -Charles -----Original Message----- From: pre...@li... [mailto:pre...@li...] On Behalf Of Charles N Wyble Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 5:37 PM To: pre...@li... Subject: [Preprep-devel] Project Update All, I have today off. As such I am doing some project work. I updated the ServerDetails page: http://wiki.infrasbox.com/index.php/ServerDetails and am also going to work on the Workflow page: http://wiki.infrasbox.com/index.php/Workflow and the overall wifi project game plan plage: http://wiki.infrasbox.com/index.php/LAWIFI_GamePlan I'll send out another e-mail when I have updated the Workflow page. Want to make sure everyone is fully operational and understands the process etc. I should have that done in the next hour or so. I plan to spend the afternoon putting together a workflow/project architecture plan and cutting tickets in SourceForge for the various parts. I'll be on IRC all day. Ping me if you want to do some stuff today. -Charles Charles N Wyble Linux System Engineer cw...@ca... Cell: (818)280-7059 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Preprep-devel mailing list Pre...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/preprep-devel |
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From: Charles N W. <ch...@th...> - 2008-03-22 00:37:19
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All, I have today off. As such I am doing some project work. I updated the ServerDetails page: http://wiki.infrasbox.com/index.php/ServerDetails and am also going to work on the Workflow page: http://wiki.infrasbox.com/index.php/Workflow and the overall wifi project game plan plage: http://wiki.infrasbox.com/index.php/LAWIFI_GamePlan I'll send out another e-mail when I have updated the Workflow page. Want to make sure everyone is fully operational and understands the process etc. I should have that done in the next hour or so. I plan to spend the afternoon putting together a workflow/project architecture plan and cutting tickets in SourceForge for the various parts. I'll be on IRC all day. Ping me if you want to do some stuff today. -Charles Charles N Wyble Linux System Engineer cw...@ca... Cell: (818)280-7059 |
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From: <aw...@la...> - 2008-03-16 20:29:09
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These are suggested changes: 1) cp /etc/screenrc ~/.screenrc 2) add to the bottom of ~/.screenrc: # to turn startup message off: startup_message off # define a bigger scrollback, default is 100 lines defscrollback 1024 # to adjust your escape character: escape ^Oo Of course adjust these as desired. A lot of people may want to leave the last one off or use an escape charater that suites them better. Set the scrollback buffer as you want, I just wanted it bigger than 100 lines, and 1024 is really just arbitrary. Some people might like to keep the startup message. Regards, Dallas E. Legan II / le...@ac... / aw...@la... http://isthereanotherquestion.blogspot.com ************************************************************************ "Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!" - "At the Mountains of Madness", H.P. Lovecraft --------------------------------------------- This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ |
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From: Charles N W. <ch...@th...> - 2008-03-15 17:49:37
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http://venturebeat.com/2008/03/15/ecomm-iskoot-promises-carrier-friendly-voi p/ As I said I am doing a lot of research etc. Lots going on behind the scenes. Getting a bunch of preparation work done today for lots of work sessions over the next 30 days. Charles N Wyble ch...@th... http://charlesnw.blogpsot.com (818) 280-7059 |
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From: Charles N W. <ch...@th...> - 2008-03-13 20:57:01
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All, A few things to get in order between now and the weekend so we can really get underway on this project and have everything squared away from a legal point of view. In other words what my business backers/investors are looking for from a legal/due diligence stand point. I will be revealing more about management candidates, investors, contacts etc over the next few weeks. Suffice it to say a lot is happening behind the scenes and things are moving quickly. We need to get a prototype developed as soon as possible. :) 1) Sourceforge. Please make sure that you have a sourceforge account and are a member of the preprep project on sourceforge. ( See https://sourceforge.net/project/memberlist.php?group_id=196718 for current members). If you aren't on the list then shoot me over your sourceforge ID and I will add you. If you don't have an ID then please create one. We'll be using SourceForge to handle tickets, host the mailing list and code repository. 2) Mailing list. Please join preprep-devel. Ralf/Eric you have invites. Let me know if you need another one. John I have sent you over an invite as well. The rest of you are on the list. Kudos to you. By the way preprep-devel is now a closed list, available by invite only. Let me know if you have any issues joining the list. 3) Consulting Agreements. Dallas has given me his. Thank you very much for that. Ralf I am still waiting on yours. Have you gotten a chance to review it yet? Let me know if you want to execute this weekend. Say at LAMPSIG? Mike we can execute the contract this weekend. Maybe at LAMPSIG? Eric I have e-mailed you a copy and you can reply via e-mail as your signature. Dallas/Ralf/Mike I have sent you an e-mail copy of the NDA and you can reply back via e-mail stating you accept the terms as your signature. Tarry/John, I'll get you guys separate agreements that cover your roles as members of the board of directors. Expect that sometime this weekend. 4) Working session. Would love to have a working session this Sunday again. I should have a full operations plan done by then, and tasks on sourceforge all setup etc. If the core tech team (Dallas/Mike/Ralf) execute the agreements and have SF accounts setup and are on the mailing list we can get underway. I am spending the rest of today getting all the infrastructure setup and putting the plan together. Will send out more e-mail as I make progress. Thanks guys! |
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From: Charles N W. <ch...@th...> - 2008-03-13 19:30:04
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All, Dallas sent me an e-mail this morning that started a thought chain that I want to run by you guys. Dealing with the city/county of Los Angeles, is a major effort. Traditionally anything that is done in this great town requires substantial planning and financial resources, and greasing the skids and hands at city hall. The primary goal of our project is to build out a wireless network that enables month over month revenue generation (via IPTV/commerce/VoIP) for the city, with revenue sharing for the people who choose to incur the hosting costs of an access point. This is a mammoth undertaking. Not so much from a technical perspective (many large scale WiFI networks exist at companies, universities, hospitals etc) as much as a business operations/deployment perspective. I fully believe we have the technical expertise to build out a working prototype and come up with the provisioning process (for servers and access points) that lets us scale to that level. The technical operations plan for both firmware and backend services is what I am focusing on over the next couple days, and what I hope we can work on executing this Saturday/Sunday. See the game plan at: http://wiki.infrasbox.com/index.php/LAWIFI_GamePlan Getting a prototype built and launched at SGVLUG in April, and an initial cell deployed at one city library by the end of May is very doable. I am willing to fund the hardware purchases, organize the tech work etc. This will prove to the city that we have a workable solution, and we can start the contract process for a city wide mesh base station deployment. The problem lies in the contract execution. How does one plan a deployment of a city wide service that is akin to a public utility, in a reasonable time frame (say 18 months start to finish). Obviously it has to be a short timeframe to give a return on investment in any reasonable time. We have a few things working for us 1) No right of way is needed beyond the City/County libraries giving us access to the rooftops to deploy the PowerStation5 base nodes (see http://ubnt.com/products/ps5.php for details). At about $100.00 per unit we need $15,600.00 to cover the libraries. 2) The city is already paying for the fiber to be run to all libraries. I don't know the county library bandwidth situation but it's something to find out. 3) The city is clamoring to have a WiFI solution and we are the closest to execution and the most viable model (organic growth via residents vs massive capital outlay by a single player). I already have the contacts at the City (senior tech people at the library, the CTO of los angeles etc). So how do we roll this out city wide? I believe the answer lies in having 156 areas (neighborhoods around each branch). That breaks down to 84 county and 72 city libraries. Each area is a "neighborhood area network (NAN)". Tarry you will be very familiar with this, as you created the model. It is my firm belief that a city/county wide Wireless network will enable the NAN business model to be very successful. I think that partnering with Komputers4RKids (http://www.komputers4rkids.com/) and deploying both the network and computers is a viable model. This gets people onto the network and using it and generating revenue for the city. We should start by deploying the computers into the county libraries as they are sorely needed there. Oh and it just so happens they would be on our network :) We can parcel the contract work out to various people in these areas who wish to make some money and deploy the infrastructure. This allows us to keep our team small and focus on the technology and infrastructure components (such as a backend VoIP/IPTV delivery/billing system, network health etc etc etc). Again all things I will be putting into the LA Wifi Game plan over the next 48 hours. Anyway this is a somewhat coherent/organized brain dump of the various non technical issues involved with what will be the largest scale enterprise grade, mission critical (ie emergency service bands and use), revenue generating WiFI deployment in the country. Some things to think about. Bottom line. Let's focus on a prototype over the next couple weekends (milestones 1 and 2) and launch the project at SGVLUG in April (I am presenting to the group at that time). Then target an initial node deployment at one city library by the end of May. By then we should have all the tech issues solved and can focus on the various business/operations issues. Thanks. Charles Wyble Founder/CTO InfrasBox |
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From: Charles N W. <ch...@th...> - 2008-03-13 03:48:01
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Wanted to let everyone know a few things: 1) Preprep-devel is not a public list. It is for the core software team only. This way we can communicate sensitive information and status without the whole world seeing it. 2) Thank you all for joining the list. Eric please join the mailing list. Sent you an invite. Thanks. 3) I am working on the LAWifi Game Plan. See http://wiki.infrasbox.com/index.php/LAWIFI_GamePlan for details. I will be putting a lot of work into it on Thursday/Friday. <soap box> Here is my "grand unified theory of world domination (or at least Los Angeles). I think that we have a good grasp of what makes up a network. From the edge (Content Distrubtion Network/Cache, Load balancer, routers) to the middle (app/web servers) to the core (database, directory services, radius). Plus various management bits (SNMP systems, security, inventory databases). All of these things are needed to run a city wide WiFI network that provides communication and commerce services. We need the hands on experience with the various technologies and a running demo (a city wide wifi network) to have the necessary knowledge, expertise and real world data to build InfrasBox. Essentially we have a service development life cycle that feeds right back into our product development cycle. All of the work, lessons, trials etc learned from the WiFI network can be reused/repackaged as an appliance that drive an Average Sale Price of 25,000 a unit (for large companies, smaller companies will pay less). We will have a free download of our build as its essentially a Linux distribution (Centos 5.1 + OpenVZ + preconfigured virt/management/itil bits). </soap box> So I will put a lot of effort into the WiFI game plan over the next two days. I would like for us to have a VoIP/IRC/SSH+screen session this Saturday and Sunday so we can hit our first milestone (building out a clustered system (using heartbeat/ocfs2/(c)lvm/drbd and putting Cacti/RRDTOOL (and perhaps other management systems) and setting up a RADIUS/FreeIPA server and selecting the firmware for the wireless routers. I'll be putting all of the tasks into sourceforge and we can work through that on Sat/Sun. Would love to have a prototype to demo at the next SGVLUG meeting. The sooner we get a prototype out, the sooner we get a contract with the city and Angel funding. In case I haven't mentioned this already, I am hoping to sell for something like 12 to 20 BILLION. So we would each have a cash out of $100 million dollars in the next 18 months. That's right. $100 MILLION dollars in the next 18 months. And in the meantime we all get very marketable skills and build a cool service/product. -Charles |
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From: Charles N W. <ch...@th...> - 2008-03-13 03:31:12
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Wanted to let everyone know a few things: 1) Preprep-devel is not intended to be a public list. It is for the core software team only. This way we can communicate sensitive information and status without the whole world seeing it. Working on making it private now. 2) Thank you to those who have joined the list. Eric/Ralf please join the mailing list. Sent you guys both an invite. 3) I am working on the LAWifi Game Plan. See http://wiki.infrasbox.com/index.php/LAWIFI_GamePlan for details. I will be putting a lot of work into it on Thursday/Friday. <soap box> Here is my "grand unified theory of world domination (or at least Los Angeles). I think that we have a good grasp of what makes up a network. From the edge (Content Distrubtion Network/Cache, Load balancer, routers) to the middle (app/web servers) to the core (database, directory services, radius). Plus various management bits (SNMP systems, security, inventory databases). All of these things are needed to run a city wide WiFI network that provides communication and commerce services. We need the hands on experience with the various technologies and a running demo (a city wide wifi network) to have the necessary knowledge, expertise and real world data to build InfrasBox. Essentially we have a service development life cycle that feeds right back into our product development cycle. All of the work, lessons, trials etc learned from the WiFI network can be reused/repackaged as an appliance that drive an Average Sale Price of 25,000 a unit (for large companies, smaller companies will pay less). We will have a free download of our build as its essentially a Linux distribution (Centos 5.1 + OpenVZ + preconfigured virt/management/itil bits). </soap box> So I will put a lot of effort into the WiFI game plan over the next two days. I would like for us to have a VoIP/IRC/SSH+screen session this Saturday and Sunday so we can hit our first milestone (building out a clustered system (using heartbeat/ocfs2/(c)lvm/drbd and putting Cacti/RRDTOOL (and perhaps other management systems) and setting up a RADIUS/FreeIPA server and selecting the firmware for the wireless routers. I'll be putting all of the tasks into sourceforge and we can work through that on Sat/Sun. Would love to have a prototype to demo at the next SGVLUG meeting. The sooner we get a prototype out, the sooner we get a contract with the city and Angel funding. In case I haven't mentioned this already, I am hoping to sell for something like 12 to 20 BILLION. So we would each have a cash out of $100 million dollars in the next 18 months. That's right. $100 MILLION dollars in the next 18 months. And in the meantime we all get very marketable skills and build a cool service/product. -Charles |
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From: Mike F. <mik...@gm...> - 2008-03-10 09:12:31
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We have lift off! |
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From: Charles N W. <ch...@th...> - 2008-03-10 08:06:45
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I'll be at the meeting. fyi - for those playing with asterisk... from: http://www.trixbox.org/forums/trixbox-forums/open-discussion/new-los-angeles -asterisk-users-group-jim-van-meggelen-our-firs ------------------ Hi All, We've been planning out first meeting of this user group with Jim Van Meggelen, Author of Asterisk: The Future of Telephony as our first guest speaker, for some time. This will be Jim's first speaking engagement in Los Angeles for over 2 years. Jim leads one of (if not the) largest Asterisk User Groups globally, based in Canada. This will be held on Thursday 20th March at 6:30pm. At our office's conference room in the Los Angeles County Business Technology Center (www.labtc.org). We have ample parking and are located in Altadena (Pasadena is 400ft away) very close to NASA JPL. Please RSVP space is limited and must be restricted if we get a large attendance. For further information please PM me or email me at in...@la... or al...@as... I will update this thread if we have more information. Please feel free to comment if you have any suggestions. ____________________________________________________________________________ ________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ |
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From: Charles N W. <ch...@th...> - 2008-03-09 17:16:11
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Ralf/Dallas/Eric, I have sent invites to the project mailing list. Please accept them and join the list. Also please create sourceforge accounts and send me your ID so I can add you to our sourceforge project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/preprep ) This is necessary for things like source control access etc. Also I created some new wiki pages. The most important one at the moment being http://wiki.infrasbox.com/index.php/LAWIFI_GamePlan I don't know if you saw my blog posts on how InfasBox and the LA Wifi project tie together or not: http://vagbond.blogspot.com/2008/03/crawl-walk-run-towards-wifi-voip.html http://vagbond.blogspot.com/2008/03/first-application-of-infrasboxvagabond.h tml We have got to get this project moving. I can only do so much by myself on the weekends. Working together we can get a lot done. I have done my best to do all of the initial research, market validation and software selection. I have some virtual machines setup on my server here ( see http://wiki.infrasbox.com/index.php/ServerDetails) currently they aren't directly reachable from the net but I am getting there. Also there is a server at mikes house and I know Ralf setup OpenVZ. We were able to collaborate rather effectively recently via IRC/screen/VoIP. I think that was a very good thing. It helps us keep our costs low and not all need to be in one place. I wish I could pay you guys now. I can't. We need to get a prototype built that we can take to investors for funding. Investors look for some key things. 1) A prototype. 2) A team that has built it for free. This shows true commitment and belief in the vision. 3) A range of technical experience. We have that on this team between the 5 of us. My goal is to not be CEO but CTO. I have laid out the vision as clearly as I can, and done a fair amount of initial work. I will be working on the product and operations plan tomorrow. If you guys could join the list, create SF accounts and send me the ID today that would take care of the various administrative details. I would like to have the product and operations plan completed by the end of the week, and have a work session this coming Saturday/Sunday. Are you guys ok with that? I have copied a good friend of mine on this e-mail. His name is Tarry Burgy. He is an outstanding guy who has a very broad vision for what the network can be used for. The key thing is to build it out and then watch the explosion of services and revenue generation that happens. Let's get underway ASAP!! -Charles |
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From: Charles N W. <ch...@th...> - 2008-03-09 08:29:59
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http://coova.org/ |
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From: Charles N W. <ch...@th...> - 2008-03-09 03:23:12
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Testing the list. Please reply if you can see this. |
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From: Charles N W. <ch...@th...> - 2008-03-08 05:46:01
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http://wiki.infrasbox.com/index.php/LAWIFI_VoIPStuff |
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From: Charles N W. <ch...@th...> - 2008-03-08 05:45:16
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Hello, Welcome to the InfrasBox mailing list. Lots of discussion here soon. -Charles |
