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2019 Toronto Open Networks Ligtning Talks

Nick Sweeting @theSquashSH (Twitter) @pirate (Github) Monadical.com


Internet Archiving (3min)

  • 1 min: Intro to internet archiving
    • Why is preserving information important? why does humanity create libraries and museums?
    • How has it been done so far?
    • What are the benefits of decentraliced vs centralized archives?
  • 1 min: Why is internet archiving hard
    • Dynamic and interactive content
    • Private and paywalled content
    • Content ID and discovery, Base32 is hard
    • Dealing with the huge amount of data directly vs curating a smaller amount
    • Archive format longevity tradeoffs (WARC vs html / pdf)
  • 1 min: What can you do today to help save the internet?
    • Joining the ArchiveTeam task force & archive.org community
    • Running a local internet archive

Big index of all the software and web archiving communities:
Web Archiving Community · pirate/ArchiveBox Wiki · GitHub


LoRA (Low Power Long-Distance Mesh Networking (3min)

  • 1min: What is LoRA?
    • low power = 1 year battery
    • long distance = 300m - 14km+
    • low bitrate = 3kbps - 300kbps
  • 1min: Why LoRA?
    • IOT
    • Weather sensors
    • Disaster radio
    • SDR / microphone / GPS network
    • ligtning triangulation!
  • 1min: How?

Misc. + Questions (3min+)

Shameless plugs / if these sound intersting / related to your work come talk to me!

These slides available here 2019 Toronto Open Networks Ligtning Talks.md · GitHub


Find me IRL / online to ask more questions! (Montreal/NYC/SF)

Nick Sweeting @theSquashSH (Twitter) @pirate (Github) Monadical.com


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