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Re:Mesh Networks by daurnimator on Sunday August 25, 2013 @10:32PM (#6274838)
Similar thing exists in Melbourne, Australia: http://www.melbournewireless.org.au/
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Re:Mesh Networks by haydio on Monday August 26, 2013 @12:35AM (#6275217)
As well as Perth, Western Australia: http://www.wafreenet.org/
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Re:Mesh Networks by mafro on Sunday August 25, 2013 @11:01PM (#6274930)
Thanks for posting this. I'm in Melbourne and I had no idea..
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Re:Mesh Networks by dil8 on Sunday August 25, 2013 @11:20PM (#6274995)
I'm in Melbourne too... started thinking about this while browsing reddit on the weekend, had no idea there was a group
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Re:Mesh Networks by nikatwork on Monday August 26, 2013 @01:41AM (#6275380)
There used to be one in Brisbane in the mid 2000s (BrisMesh), but it seems to be dead now.
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Re:Mesh Networks by femto on Monday August 26, 2013 @02:31AM (#6275508)
Most capital cities in Australia had a wireless mesh project during that era. wireless.org[1] was (and still is?) the toplevel website.

Melbourne and Perth seem to be the only ones left with active nodes? Canberra (air.net) used to be strong. Sydney lives on in the form of a website[2] and nodedb[3], a world wide map of mesh network nodes, started by "evilbunny" (Duane Groth).

The servers are still live, but the content is well out of date. The projects are dead, but all the infrastructure seems to still be there, if interest ever revives.

[1] http://www.wireless.org.au/

[1] http://www.sydneywireless.com/

[2] http://www.nodedb.com/

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