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-<h1><img alt="Logo" src="http://village.n4c.eu/images/n4c-logo.png" width="243" height="52" /> N4C Summer
-2011 Trial</h1>
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<a href="index.html">Home</a>
<a href="mail/">Mail</a>
-<a href="http://pushed.village.n4c.eu/">Local Web</a>
-<a href="portal/">Web Request Portal</a>
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<p style="text-align:right;margin-left:auto;margin-right:0;"><a
href="index.html#Contact">Contact</a>, <a href="index.html#privacy">Privacy, security etc.</a>,
-<a href="http://pushed.village.n4c.eu/sw_index.html">Svenska</a>,
-<a href="http://pushed.village.n4c.eu/sa_index.html">Sámi</a></p>
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-<p>Between <a href="#Locations">early June</a> and the <a
-href="#Locations">middle of July</a> 2011 the participants in the networking
-for communications challenged communities (<a href="http://www.n4c.eu/">N4C</a>)
+<p>Between <a href="#Location"> the 8th</a> and the <a
+href="#Location">15th of July</a> 2011 the participants in the Scalable and Adaptive Internet Solutions
+(<a href="http://www.sail-project.eu">SAIL</a> <a><img alt="SAIL logo" src="images/sail-logo.png" width="40" height="40"></a>) project following on the work of the networking
+for communications challenged communities (<a href="http://www.n4c.eu/">N4C</a> <a><img alt="N4C logo" src="images/n4c-logo.png" width="81" height="17"></a>)
project will be providing <a href="#Email">email</a> and <a href="#Web">limited
-web services</a> in some <a href="#Locations">locations</a> in Padjelanta.
+web services</a> in a <a href="#Location">location</a> in Padjelanta.
Given that there are no normal Internet connections in the area, we will be
using <a href="#Work">Delay-Tolerant Networking</a> (DTN) in order to provide
-these services. That means that an email sent from Staloluokta will travel on
+these services. That means that an email sent from Skuolla will travel on
the next suitable helicopter to Ritsem from where it will be forwarded to the
Internet. Based on our experience from 2009 and 2010, we expect on average such an email
-will take about 15 hours to get from Staloluokta to its destination. Similarly,
+will take about 15 hours to get from Skuolla to its destination. Similarly,
a response email from the Internet is likely to take another 15 hours to get
-back to Staloluokta. The limited web services we will be providing include
+back to Skuolla. The limited web services we will be providing include
content regularly pushed from the Internet as well as the ability to request
specific web pages. As with the email service, delays will be measured in hours
or days, depending on the location, helicopter movements and the availability
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<p>Please <strong>DON'T TAMPER WITH THESE DEVICES</strong> - as you can imagine it can
take a lot of effort to go visit one to fix it!</p>
- <p>We have installed equipment on two <a
-href="http://www.fiskflyg.se/english.asp">Fiskflyg</a> helicopters that can
-transfer messages between these village DTN routers and gateway devices
+ <p><a href="http://www.fiskflyg.se/english.asp">Fiskflyg</a> have agreed to
+carry equipment on their helicopters that can
+transfer messages between the village DTN router at Skuolla and gateway device
installed at Ritsem. That is how emails and web content move between the remote
sites and the Internet.</p>
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<td><a href="images/smaller-node.jpg"><img alt="Village DTN router" src="images/smaller-node-thumb.jpg"/></a></td>
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- <td><h2><a name="Locations" id="Locations">Locations and Dates</a></h2>
- <p>Current plans call for village DTN routers to be installed as listed below. Note that dates may vary somewhat and that even locations are subject to
-change, as the trial proceeds.</p>
+ <td><h2><a name="Location" id="Location">Location and Dates</a></h2>
+ <p>The village DTN router is to be installed as listed below:</p>
<ul>
- <li>Ritsem: from July 1st to September 30th</li>
- <li>Staloluokta: from July 3rd to August 23rd</li>
- <li>Sallohaure: from July 5th to August 7th</li>
- <li>Vastens: from July 6th to August 7th</li>
- <li>Skuolla (calf-marking): from July 5th to July 9th, or
- <ul><li>from July 12th to July 16th</li></ul></li>
+ <li>Skuolla (calf-marking): from July 11th to July 15th</li>
</ul>
- <p>For most services, messages from the Internet are delivered to all
-locations. So if you send a mail from Ritsem and someone answers that mail,
+ <p>Messages from the Internet are delivered to this location.
+So if you send a mail from Ritsem and someone answers that mail,
then you should be able to see the response when you access the mail service
-later on in, for example, Staloluokta (if enough time has passed of
+later on in, for example, Skuolla (if enough time has passed of
course.)</p>
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<ul>
<li>A WiFi-enabled <a href="#devices">device</a> with a standard email client.</li>
<li>A mail account in the 'village.n4c.eu' domain
- (<a href="/mailsignup/">create account</a>)</li>
+ (<a href="https://village.n4c.eu/mailsignup/">create account</a>)</li>
<li>To have configured your mail client with an account that uses our message store ("IMAP" server) and
-outbound mail relay ("SMTP" server). The same settings will work in all of our locations, and (when you get home) from the Internet, for the duration of the trial. Note however, that we only provide outbound mail relaying (i.e. sending) from within the trial area - when you're on the Internet, you need to use some other mail relay.
+outbound mail relay ("SMTP" server). The same settings will work in all of our location, and (when you get home) from the Internet, for the duration of the trial. Note however, that we only provide outbound mail relaying (i.e. sending) from within the trial area - when you're on the Internet, you need to use some other mail relay.
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<p>To use the web service you need a WiFi-enabled <a href="#devices">device</a> with a standard browser.</p>
-<p>There are two ways to get at web pages - each day we <a
-href="#pushed">push</a> some content to each of the village DTN routers, and
+<p>There are two ways to get at web pages - each day we
+push some content to each of the village DTN routers, and
you can access that content as if you were browsing the web normally. You can
-also <a href="#requested">request</a> content we don't push to be specially
+also request content we don't push to be specially
delivered. Note however, that only fairly "static" web content really works
well either way - rich web applications cannot currently be used via our
service since they generally depend on a "real" Internet connection.</p>
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our web infrastructure will serve up the web pages, if they are present. Since
we clearly cannot copy the entire web, only a limited set of pages are
available. Mostly, those are news, weather, educational and other local sites
-that we expect to be of interest. For a list of the sites that are available,
-go to <a
-href="http://pushed.village.n4c.eu/">http://pushed.village.n4c.eu/</a>.</p>
+that we expect to be of interest.
<p>If you would like us to add a site, please send us an email at <a
href="mailto:help@village.n4c.eu">help@village.n4c.eu</a> and we'll try to add
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<h3><a name="requested" id="requested">Requesting</a> Specific Pages</h3>
-<p>To request a specific web page, you can use our <a
-href="portal/index.php">web request portal</a>, which allows
+<p>To request a specific web page, you can use our
+web request portal, which allows
you to enter a web site address (a URL). We will then send that to an automated
web engine which will attempt to get those pages and send them back to you. Of
course, this will take quite some time, so is only really suitable if you will
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is that pages you request this way will be available to anyone who tries to
access them. (Though they will not be "indexed" on our list of sites.)</p>
+<h3><a name="facebook" id="facebook">Register</a> Facebook Access</h3>
+SICS have built an experimental Facebook/DTN gateway.
+It is now possible to register for Facebook access over DTN using our
+<a href="http://www.sics.se/~andersl/dtnfb/">Facebook access resgistration</a>
+page. Please note that you will only be able to access Facebook if you preauthorise using
+this registration mechanism. We do not store any Facebook passwords of users,
+but only an auth token (which is easily revokable by the users from the privacy panel of
+facebook). For information on the Facebook/DTN gateway please contact
+<a href="mailto:Anders Lindgren <andersl@sics.se>">Anders Lindgren</a>.
+
+
<h2><a name="devices" id="devices">Client Devices</a></h2>
<p>Most WiFi enabled devices with mail and web clients should work. We have
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<p>We are considering providing some laptops or other client devices for shared
-use in some of our locations for some of the time, so do ask if you'd like to
+use in some of our location for some of the time, so do ask if you'd like to
use the system, but don't have a device with you, and we'll help if we can.</p>
<p>We are also investigating the provision of a web-mail front-end for the mail
service, for devices that have a browser but no mail client. We'll provide more
details on that once we've done some testing.</p>
-<h2><a name="Power" id="Power">Power</a></h2>
-<p>Last Day</p>
-<img src="images/power_day.png" alt="power"/>
-
-<p>Last Week</p>
-<img src="images/power_week.png" alt="power"/>
-
-<p>All</p>
-<img src="images/power_all.png" alt="power"/>
<h2><a name="Contact" id="Contact">Contact</a></h2>
<p>The main developers of this trial are from <a
href="http://www.tcd.ie/">Trinity College Dublin</a>, Ireland, and <a
href="http://www.intel.com/">Intel Ireland</a>, co-operating with other
-partners in the <a href="http://www.n4c.eu/">N4C project</a>, in particular <a
-href="http://www.ltu.se/?l=en">Luleå University of Technology</a> (LTU),
+partners in the <a href="http://www.sail-project.eu">SAIL</a> project
+, in particular <a href="http://www.sics.se/">Swedish Institute of Computer Science</a>
and <a href="http://www.tannak.se/default.asp?ID=67">Tannak AB.</a> who are
providing local assistance, users and support.</p>