[guardian-dev] OT: app for nearby peers

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

For the original posters use, you can also use XMPP-Bonjour or Bonjour chat in
ChatSecure and other chat apps, including Adium, Pidgin, etc.  You choose any
name you want, and anyone on the same wifi network will you see, and vice versa.

.hc

Paul Gardner-Stephen:
> Hello,
> 
> Related to this, at the Serval Project we have a small pot of funds that we
> are planning to use this year to pull in the innovations from gilga mesh
> into Serval, so that the Serval Mesh app should be able to work for secure
> text messaging using off-the-shelf android (and possibly iOS) devices.
> 
> Paul.
> 
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Nathan of Guardian <
> nathan at guardianproject.info> wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 5, 2015, at 05:32 PM, grarpamp wrote:
>>> Is there currently a nearby peers app with recognized mass
>>> appeal that uses WiFi only, is strictly peer to peer, no central
>>> service, no commercial ties, adhoc routed, is open source, etc?
>>> ie: Say you're at a party or a convention and you'd like to
>>> send a note to whoever nym'd themselves (in the list of
>>> all nodes the app detected over WiFi) as "guy wearing blue
>>> shoes", or to the "Chuck Norris", or to the "Linda Rogers"...
>>
>> My prototype app "Gilga" was an attempt at this. It uses Bluetooth and
>> WiFi Direct. It supports both public broadcast and direct messages, as
>> well as some basic retweet/repeat behavior.
>>
>> https://github.com/n8fr8/gilgamesh
>>
>> You can find the binary on fdroid.org
>>
>>
>> --
>>   Nathan of Guardian
>>   nathan at guardianproject.info
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