Building on the innovative research efforts and tireless support of
the Wireless Africa group at the Meraka Institute of the CSIR [1], the
sometimes terrifying growth of the Scarborough Wireless Users Group
[2] and tools developed by the Open Mesh team [3] I am pleased to be
able to finally announce the BETA release of the Afrimesh Network
Management Dashboard for Ubuntu Linux!

  [1] http://wirelessafrica.meraka.org.za
  [2] http://swug.za.net
  [3] http://www.open-mesh.net

Featuring:

  * Powerful mesh network routing with B.A.T.M.A.N.
  * Dynamic GIS visualization of your mesh on OpenStreetMap maps.
  * Plan your network using the terrain elevation map.
  * Visualize live health&traffic information for any mesh node.
  * Keep inventory of your network devices.
  * Monitor the health&usage of your Internet gateway.
  * Monitor live network accounting information from pmacct.
  * View network status & log messages in realtime.
  * Customer management interface featuring FreeRADIUS support.
  * Customer authentication featuring coova-chilli support.
  * Online help and live chat support.
  * Intelligent configuration assistance.
  * Build and manage mesh networks even without an Internet
    connection.
  * Now supports the VillageTelco Mesh Potato.

Installation instructions live here:

  http://code.google.com/p/afrimesh/wiki/Installation

The impatient & brave can try:

  sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 50CFBA3E
  sudo sh -c "echo deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/afrimesh/ppa/ubuntu hardy main >> /etc/apt/sources.list"
  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install afrimesh-dashboard

Please request features and report your bugs:

  http://code.google.com/p/afrimesh/issues

Help can usually be found on:

  http://groups.google.com/group/afrimesh

  #afrimesh on irc.freenode.net

The source is licensed under the New BSD License:

  http://code.google.com/p/afrimesh

A live demo can be viewed at:

  http://demo.afrimesh.org

Finally, this announcement would be incomplete without the ever
growing list of folk who have contributed to the development of
Afrimesh:

  Chris Morris
  Kobus Roux
  Ajay Makan
  George James
  Johann Hugo
  Sebastian Buettrich
  Louis Coetzee
  Dhiren Seetharam
  Jonathan Mzengeza
  Edwin Cowley
  Cynthia Mlambo
  Nkosinathi Msimango
  David Ume          
  Steve Song
  David Rowe          
  Elektra Aichele      
  David Carman

Thank you everyone!