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I was reading QSDK page [1] and it seems to me that they are doing something different from openwrt.

>The QCA Software Development Kit (QSDK) project allows users to build an OpenWrt based platform containing additional enhancements for Qualcomm Atheros chipsets that have not yet made it into the public OpenWrt repository.

I'm not aware of the project goals so I may be wrong.

[1] https://wiki.codeaurora.org/xwiki/bin/QSDK/

Yeah. It was a very good read. I could never have thought that you could use xmpp protocol for microblogging! Movim's the only platform that does that as far as I can tell.

Thank you for writing this article and for the great project.Do you have any plans for opensource wireless chips 802.11?

This is a great idea, well done! I think as a next step you should look a bit more into routers themselves. You can flash them with an opensource os like openwrt [1] and run a chat (or some kind of communication) server on it so everybody connected to the same wifi can freely exchange data.

This way you can turn any wireless capable [2] machine into a small community network.

> great use case I've seen are college campuses where thousands of students connect to the same WiFi,

This is indeed a great use case. Right now you're only thinking about chat but its got more applications like semi-remote teaching,tests ,role calls etc. But (I think) its far easier to realize it if you work at the network level rather than at the app level.

Best of luck!!!!

[1] https://openwrt.org

[2] router, raspberry pi, laptop, your phone

One of the things that I find really encouraging is governments letting other industires to become ISP

>In Tennessee, for example, state laws allow publicly-owned electric utilities to provide broadband

I think this is the best way to solve last mile distribution. Electric companies already have the capacity to manage door to door to installations. Internet could become an additional source of revenue for them. They could lease the line from big providers and increase their reach. Win Win.

Nice. Thanks!

Can you explain a bit more on your VPN setup? Did you create it on the same machine as the router itself?