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

[Mitch Altman]

I just installed Firrechat.  I added rubin110.  I "created" nopecamp.  Not sure if it's working.

 
From: rubin at starset.net
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 00:00:42 +0200
To: congress at lists.noisebridge.net
Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-congress] FireChat app for communicating at Camp?

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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