erflungued's blog

.."The representative was so convinced that the concept as a pilot project is now likely to be implimented in Walaza and 4 surrounding villages"..
http://voipinfo.3owl.com/wordpress/2012/04/digital-village-demonstration-walaza/
(Translated from German)

3 mesh potatoes trialed over a distance of 4.7 km. Mesh Potato field trials

"Wireless Battle of the Mesh" is being held from 26 March-1 April in Athens: http://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV5

Part of the event is a "Warm Up" at Sarantaporo village - ~200Km north of Athens, with currently 9 wifi mesh networks in the surrounding area.
They have some nice links graphing their meshes:

Sarantaporo: http://www.sarantaporo.gr/node/98
Milea: http://www.sarantaporo.gr/node/141
Farmaki: http://www.sarantaporo.gr/node/211

This weeks Floss-Weekly podcast features "Village Telco"
http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly/196
(Haven't listened to it yet)
Guests are Steve Song and Terry Gillett.
Terry was the person that bought BATMAN-ADV to the Mesh Potato project - extending MP from a voice-only solution - allowing you to do stuff like this:

A cute feature I like about the mesh potato: PC not required - setup can be done from a plain old phone.

Twine reports via Twitter, SMS, email or with a HTTP request, using rules set from a Web interface.
http://supermechanical.tumblr.com/

ABC Radio National program Future Tense played a program this morning on providing communications for the underprivileged with Adelaide's Paul Gardner-Stephen and David Rowe.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/futuretense/stories/2011/3353120.htm