Community Minded Apps/Services

[Tom Higgins]

There are many parts that go into making a well used community
networking project like the PTP. The backbone tech is important but so
too are the things you can do with the nodes and networks being built.
Over the next couple of months I would like to focus a bit on the
things that are being done, and could be done, on not just the PTP
works but any network from your home lan to the globe spanning
intertubes.


What type of things am I talking about. For starters lets take a look
at gnump3d.

http://www.gnu.org/software/gnump3d/

This is an easy to set up server app that allows you to easily offer
up music, movies and other media to the users of your net. The name
may have mp3 in it but the server covers ogg, avis and a ton more
media files. The setup is pretty darn easy, there is one
configuration file where you can tell gnump3d where the media files
you are offering are, how to show them off, add any security you may
want and set some options that would make it easier for the users to
get the files in other formats. Gnump3d takes those options and sets
up a web based server that lets your users search for, stream and
download the things you are offering up. Adding and removing new
offerings is as easy and placing them where you told gnump3d to look
for things, it does the rest.

You can see an example running over at the Urban Grind node; next
time you are there point your web browsers to http://10.11.19.250:8888
I just set it up last week so there are just a few files now from a
group that meets at the UG, I will be adding some PTP related stuff
soon.

As with many of the apps and servers we will be looking at gnump3d
would be something you would want to advertise on your local net via
zeroconf or on the splash page of your captive portal if you are
running one.

There are a million stories in the interconnected community network,
this is just one of them. Lets here what you have running on your
networks.

-tomhiggins

[Russell Senior]

Tom> You can see an example running over at the Urban Grind node; next
Tom> time you are there point your web browsers to
Tom> http://10.11.19.250:8888 I just set it up last week so there are
Tom> just a few files now from a group that meets at the UG, I will be
Tom> adding some PTP related stuff soon.

Meeting videos might be a good choice.
--
Russell Senior, Secretary
russell-LS+HbC+***@public.gmane.org