On 22 May 2012 18:59, Adrian Colomitchi <acolomitchi@gmail.com> wrote:
See: http://wiki.freesoftware.asn.au/AustralianFreeSoftwareProjects - not that many IMHO.
You would need to identify why the list is so short first. How many Australia open source software authors know about it I don't know how many. By the number of entries, I suspect not too many of them. Which leads me to think that the "FOSS national identity" is a topic
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 7:27 PM, George Patterson <george.patterson@gmail.com> wrote: that worth discussing: - if deemed important, probably we would see more efforts to create awareness of the list existence - if deemed not (so) important, the fact the list is short is not a problem.
and if they do, why isn't it listed there? Well, the way I see: it's a *Wiki*, so if they know about it it should be easy to add their projects. I don't know if adding/editing that page is restricted, I suspect it is not
A promising big one is the Serval project http://www.servalproject.org/ A short run down, it's a application that allows phone calls to be made (or even sending text messages) via mesh networking where theres limited infrastructure. Think after a natural disater and the phone exchange has water flowing through it. If you spot something that needs attention such as a broken pipeline or landslide, you can upload the photo to the "Rhizome" and it will migrate via mesh connected phones untill it gets to someone to that can either address it or get a message to the outside world. The sender and receiver do not need to be online at the same time.
Sounds quite good.
Serval is being developed at Flinders University. Can you ask them to attempt adding the project to the list *if interested*? Or, if you are a contributor yourself, can *you* try to add it?
Adrian