[WLANware] OLSR GUI for masses

[Fabiano Fidêncio]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Mitar <mmitar at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> (I am writing to all of you because you have proposed OLSR GUI in one
> way or another. I am also CCing our mailing list.)
>
> So the competition part of GSoC is over. Now starts collaboration part
> (the part we were all waiting for).
>
> I would first like to congratulate Charles for being accepted. And I
> would like to stress that we all are sad that we could not simply
> accept everyone as all of you had good proposals and have made an
> impression that you would be able to pull things through. But we had
> to choose

Congrats, Charles!


> But not everything is lost. OK, money prize is lost, but you can still
> work on your proposals, learn new things, gain experience and
> knowledge, get acquainted with open source, open communities,
> interesting people, build something for people to use and be happy and
> angry about (you can never satisfy everybody) and to show to your
> grandchildren what have you done this summer of 2010 when you were a
> student. Even more, I have some ideas how we could all collaborate
> together and combine different proposals. So please tell me if you
> would like to work anyway and what would you like to work on most, so
> that we can maybe find some combination for everybody.
>
> For example, some ideas.
>
> We could combine special OLSR GUI for mobile phones with generic GUI
> for PCs. Because once we design what GUI needs and once we add all
> necessary things into OLSR codebase, it should be (in theory) quite
> easy just to make GUIs on different platforms for all this features we
> will envision. (OK, it will be a little bit harder on Android, but we
> have Charles to cover this.) I like approach which is Transmission
> bittorrent client using:
>
> http://www.transmissionbt.com/
>
> They have made a great underlying lib and then they build upon it
> different GUIs for different platforms with native tools and native
> look&feel. And also a web interface. And console interface.


Sounds like a good plan ;-)
I can write the interface for OS X and review codes for Linux interfaces (if
Charles chooses EFL or pyEFL).

One point:
N900's GUI *can not* be wrote in Java.


> And then another idea, which is mostly question if Anthony would like
> to do it. And that is that we could also make some abstraction on
> routing part and thus we could make a generic GUI for OLSR and Babel
> (and maybe some day B.A.T.M.A.N.) which would run on different
> platforms. Wouldn't it be great if you could just have an app on your
> PC or mobile phone and once you would connect to any open wireless
> network it would choose proper routing protocol used in this network
> and connect you automagically. This would really open our networks to
> masses.
>
> So, please tell me if this is interesting enough for you to
> participate anyway. And I will understand if you would not like to.
>
>
> Mitar
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Fabiano Fidêncio
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