Re: We Rebuild

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On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Jonathan Kundra <jkundra@gmail.com> wrote:

I'll poke around all my links - I seem to remember something like that (or not). If I find, I'll send it on to you. It does look nice, but as you say, we need a very simple explanation - and ideally in Arabic as well. Once again, I don't know how closely you, Barrett or the others want to work with WR. As for me, I'd be tempted to post the link you gave to it with the request for the how-to info you need as well as an Arabic translation. I'd be happy to do this if you wish.

Best,

J.

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Vertesi.com <campbell@vertesi.com> wrote:

I tried actually, and they dont. They have a good guide for Egyptians hooking their computers up to their mobile phones so they can get long distance... But nothing to make it easy for people to share their connections.

The way i see this, it is a very effective tool in our arsenal to get communications out of disaster or censorship zones. I hear rumors that Egypt will restore Internet acces by Tuesday, but IMO we should still pursue it.

It's also a great way to get people involved in the info war with a low barrier to entry and a real effect. I think of all those people who posted on facebook about tunisia but didnt get off their butts to do anything else. This is free, easy, and provides serious support. To my mind it's perfect.

C

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On Jan 30, 2011, at 7:19 PM, Jonathan Kundra <jkundra@gmail.com> wrote:

Addendum: Missed the part about the missing info, but soon encountered it after setting up an account. So I won't be sending it to the We Build people. I do think that they would rapidly have an answer to your query about a simple guide to sharing an internet connection were you to contact them on http://chat.telecomix.org/

Best,

JK

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Campbell Vertesi <campbell@vertesi.com> wrote:

OK guys, dialupegypt.projectpm.org is up and running. The frontpage is a list of all dial up addresses submitted , along with a brief metric of how many people marked a given dialup number as "broken". There is also a howto page, with no real information yet. :( Does anyone have a link to an idiot-proof guide to sharing your internet connection over dialup? If you can send that to me, we can start publicizing the site over twitter and fb. The more dialup numbers added the better.

On a related note, word on the street is that the Egyptian government is only censoring DNS - the system that translates names like google.com into the IP addresses that computers actually use to identify each other on the Internet. So one big solution is to offer people a public dns (or why not just use Google's? 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4), and give them instructions on how to change their internet settings accordingly. Another is to give them the IP address for big sites like Twitter and Facebook, or IRC.

I'm out of time to work on this for today, sadly. I'll be back on this tomorrow I guess.

C
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Many thanks,

C
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On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Emma Allan <emilieduchatelet8@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi men, lovely morning. I have the worst hangover caused by having a hangover. I would love a Bacon sandwich. I see the lovely Jonathan has been busy and the equally lively Campbell knows what he's on about. Jolly good. If someone could just massage my temples and tidy up a bit. I'm without broadband atm but it's coming to England tomorrow! Yay. I feel sick and am going to lie down until next week. Love Emma

On 30 Jan 2011 13:09, "Campbell Vertesi" <campbell@vertesi.com> wrote:
Ah - these are the guys who are doing such good work getting dialup going for people in Egypt. I'll pop in and say hi today, see if I can get them to help us get information up on dialupegypt.net .
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Many thanks,

C
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tel 347.329.4511

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Jonathan Kundra <jkundra@gmail.com> wrote:
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