[GTALUG] Firechat -- a mesh app for android, etc

[James Knott]

On 10/01/2014 08:39 AM, David Collier-Brown wrote:
> Courtesy of slashdot,
> http://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/09/30/2043244/hong-kong-protesters-use-mesh-networks-to-organize
>
> This looks useful for more than just protests (;-))
>

You may recall the "One Laptop Per Child" computers.  They were built to
use mesh among the devices.  However, mesh technology has been used in
amateur radio for at least 30 years.  Of course, with FireChat on smart
phones, it's more readily available.