Title: Traffic control on LibreMesh

tags: APC

People involved

• New person likely (as new graduates are outflowing) - Servelots
  • and a documentation person will support this person (likely from Quest Alliance group)
• Ger and/or San (Altermundi) ?

Background

Objective is to be able to manage the abuse of the mesh.

Some key usecases:

1. users playing games when other users need latency
2. users having problem browsing while others downloading torrents
3. users organizing the use of scarse bandwidth

Secondary objectives:

• document Pirania
• Capture Servelots requirements for Pirania
• and to pair program and work our way through it for COWMesh needs

Deliverables

Activity 1

Name: Colearning
Output: documentation
Who:
Completion date:

Activity 2

Name: Cowmesh requirements laid out
Output:
Who:
Completion date:

Activity 3

Name: Pirania for COWMesh
Output:
Who:
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Activity 4

Name: Sharing it on a webinar and as a document
Output: Video of the webinar
Who:
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Reporting

The contractor will report to LocNet’s Coordinator Nico Pace nicopace@apc.org

Timeline and Contract Duration

The contract will be in effect from:
date: Aug 1, 2022
to
date: Dec, 2022

Payment terms and contract value

The value of this contract is USD XXX payable on completion of all deliverables.
or
50% payable on signing and the balance on completion of deliverables.

Budget

1. Description. $ xx
2. Description. $ xx

Notes

• we need a tc expert… will look for that one. asked LOCNET team.
• important to capture the needs from the networks, for some traffic shaping is lifechanging, for others unnecesary
• Ger can commit one day per month