[Noisebridge-congress] FireChat app for communicating at Camp?

[Ben Rupert]

I just uninstalled firechat because it was too noisy even when I thought I set it to minimal notifications. Anyway it's a good idea. Also it's supposed to do peer-to-peer somehow (maybe only bluetooth?).

Ben

On August 9, 2015 9:43:45 PM GMT+02:00, David Valdman <dmvaldman at gmail.com> wrote:
>failed to include a link to the app: http://firechat.opengarden.com/
>
>On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 12:39 PM, David Valdman <dmvaldman at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> I’ve never used it in practice, but it’s a chat app that creates a
>mesh
>> network between all users and as long as one of us has an internet
>> connection, we can proxy through him/her. It’s often used in events
>with
>> high densities of people. The security of it I’m not certain about.
>Maybe
>> someone here can add some helpful advice on the matter.
>>
>> I’ve just created a room called nopecamp. You can access it via the
>web on
>> your mobile device at http://firech.at/nopecamp after installing the
>app.
>>
>> I know we have a lot of chat apps lying around, but I worry that with
>poor
>> internet connectivity on mobile google hangout/slack will not work
>well for
>> some of us.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>
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