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

[David Valdman]

That sounds like the right sequence of events. In fact I don't think the following part is necessary. What's your name on it Mitch? I'm dmvaldman

Dave

> On Aug 9, 2015, at 4:24 PM, Mitch Altman <maltman23 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> I just installed Firrechat.  I added rubin110.  I "created" nopecamp.  Not sure if it's working.
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> I've added a column to the roster for Firechat user names.
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> 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?
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> rubin110
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> 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?).
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> Ben
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> 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/
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Dave
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