TEOTWAWKI means The End Of The World As We Know It, and the
idea is to preserve the type of collaboration we are used to with the
Internet in adverse disaster type situations and in areas that simply
have no real hope of being connected.
Bill pulled together some old, reliable and new software to build a self-propagating Usenet from the LightTPD web server, InterNetNews (INN) news server, Suck news transfer service, Web-News news reader, Perl 5.10 scripts to handle UDP broadcasts, and a DokuWiki instance to provide a shared page editing space.
We had about 5 XOs in the network with either local or remote connections to the Browse interface for the news and wikis.
Nice demo.
Bill's system may be a precursor to tools used in the field
for collection of data needed to feed a more versatile and distributed
Sahana.
Project Discussion: Disaster Recovery Networks, Sahana, RIT, XOs by Jeff Sonstein.
3. Open discussion: Possibly a Kid's Corner, Math Games, Physics simulators We didn't get to these topics as we were so engaged in understanding the architectural issues presented.