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

[Rubin Abdi]

Ok folks, this thing is stupid and silly and possibly useful. Think of
Firechat not as chat but as a P2P Twitter. There's a main "Everyone" feed
which includes tagged messages from #channels. If you enter a channel
you're simply seeing a filtered view of only those tagged messages from the
Everyone feed. The DMs are private but everyone sees all the chats from all
channels that are geographically near by.

This would be a fun experiment. I'm not sure if the BT component will work
if you've got an older phone, but it's worth a try. We still have the
Google Hangouts thing and this mailing list.

To join "nopecamp" simply download/install, register an account with an
email address. Add someone from the camp and have them add you back. At
that point I think you just need to tell it you want to create/join
"nopecamp" and it should work.

I've added a column to the roster for Firechat user names.


On 9 August 2015 at 22:55, Rubin Abdi <rubin at starset.net> wrote:

> 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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