I would like to share a project I am currently working on (contract based), and discuss few possibilities how we can bridge what's already going to be deployed with possible expansion as a marketing platform for Boinc and GridCoins as well, with many other benefits in both directions.

In short, the project goal is to cover some public places such as buss stations and parks with free internet access, especially these with limited connectivity.

After tons of testing, various solutions, way too many cigarettes and empty Coca-Cola bottles, I decided to go with RaspberryPi and thrown away idea of Mikrotik due to limited kernel level access.

Why?

RP Model 3B seems to be powerful enough to support this project with only 2 out of 4 cores available. That means, each repeater / AP could easy host some very minimal Boinc work, but as well as full node. Of-course, nice will take care of giving the priority to repeater and AP daemon, but it leaves more then enough, of otherwise spare computing resources to support our initiative.

This helps current project as well

Executed at the level of single city, if proven well, could be easy deployed based on case study in every major city. What's more important, the initial project has a great benefit, not only with free internet access, but supporting science and sustainable environment and green energy.

How you can get involved?

Do you have an Idea about a sticker design, we can put on each of these devices. (they will be in round metal boxes). I will need a GridCoin / Boinc Logo with a short "catchy" line. Something like "Green Certificate" with "learn more when you sign in".

Would you like to propose the same at the level of your city, school, institution or even a street? Let's get in touch, I will help you build repeaters and AP's as well as host nodes. It's plug and play.

Anything else that can make this better, go ahead.

The welcome page when someone logins would be: "This free internet access is sponsored by the city and GridCoin Community" If you would like to learn more and get involved, click here.

At the moment, as I am getting ready to put the first devices into production, it would be very helpful if someone of designers here could make a nice sticker that I could physically print on each device in order to maximize marketing potential.

The project is currently performed at the city of Belgrade, but I look forward to support with our case-study and know-how anyone who want's to implement the same on the level of city, school or even a pub.

My main assistant decided to get some sleep, so I count on you guys :)

Now going to have some sleep too, looking forward for your opinions. And just for an update of previous project, I plan to put GRC online / android wallet from test-net into full production by the end of the next week.

Thanks,

S