Howdy Folks:

Balug on Tuesday will host Thomas Belote, who is a new speaker. Tom is a software developer at Untangle and a CS grad student at San Jose State.

Tom will be talking about wireless mesh networking. As a grad student at SJSU, Thomas has worked on Wireless Mesh Networking and Mobile Ad Hoc Networking. His talk will compare solutions like OLSR and Microsoft's semi open source Mesh Connectivity Layer (that doesn't run on Linux). He will discuss why WDS is not sufficient and a mesh protocol is needed, and discuss the lack of openness thus far in 802.11s even though it is included in the OLPC, as well as security issues and implications.

If you'd like to come, please RSVP:

RSVP@balug.org

Meeting Details...

6:30pm April 20th, 2008 (Tuesday)

Four Seas Restaurant 731 Grant Ave. San Francisco, CA 94108 Easy $5 Parking: http://www.portsmouthsquaregarage.com/

Cost = $13 for dinner, but the meeting itself is free and open to the public

Upcoming 2008 speakers include:

June - Andrew Morton (Linux Kernel) July - Mike Linksyaver (Creative Commons) Aug - TBD Sept - Ian Murdock (Debian & Sun)

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