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

[Rubin Abdi]

So I can't get this to work. After installing the app, when I hit the link
I just get redirected to the Play store. Do you want to add me to your
friends list and try to invite that way?

rubin110

On 9 August 2015 at 22:17, Rubin Abdi <rubin at starset.net> wrote:

> I'm up for trying it but not abandoning Hangouts. I believe the p2p works
> through BLE, so this makes it useless for some of our trash hacker Android
> devices. But it'll be a good experiment. I should be rubin
>
> This while local chat room is slightly creepy where I'm sitting right now.
> Is this Everyone channel just based off GPS or actual BLE mesh?
> 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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