[pp.int.general] Lobbying EgyptSat To Provide Free Internet Services For Egyptians

[Kenneth Peiruza]

Hi Jay,

Let me lobby him before, I might be more effective ;)

The guy I'm talking about is Ivan Pizarro, from Globaltelesat.com

BTW, who do you suggest me to contact about mesh/planned-wifi networks?
(Guifi.net for sure, but, who else?)


Talk soon,

Kenneth

On 04/02/11 04:24, Jay Emerson wrote:
> Thanks for the info!  I was more going the route of asking them to donate
> the services and we return the favor by advertising the fact they did it for
> the people of Egypt.  $3K in services donated is much less than marketing
> budgets for most companies and It's not even money they're spending.  Not to
> mention an endorsement from pirates and a group that shall remain Anonymous
> will go a long way for them.
> 
> That was my thought process on this.
> 
> Jay Emerson
> Administrative Officer
> Pirate Party of New York
> On Feb 3, 2011 8:46 PM, "Kenneth Peiruza" <kenneth at contralaguerra.org>
> wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>>
>> About satellite communications, some points:
>>
>> Last year I asked a friend about sat-com because everyone at Bangkok's
>> hackerspace went nuts with the (buggy) filtering proxy of Thai's
> government.
>>
>> I have a friend who is an amazing telecom expert, running a satellite
>> communication's firm in EMEA, so I asked him about rates and latency.
>>
>>
>> In short:
>>
>> 1000 US$ / mbps / month
>> Equipment: btw 1200 and 2000 US$
>> Link Latency 500 ms (all geosynchronous satellites have this delay)
>> Emitter dish considerably bigger that a simple Sat-TV receiver (AFAIR
>> 2,5M diameter)
>>
>> IMHO discouraging. If you want it anyway, I can put you in touch with him.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Kenneth
>>
>> On 04/02/11 01:00, Jay Emerson wrote:
>>> Thanks and will do.
>>>
>>> Jay Emerson
>>> Administrative Officer
>>> Pirate Party of New York
>>> On Feb 3, 2011 1:41 AM, "bbox-gs" <borgbox.drone.guinness1 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>>> nice Op. Jay
>>>>
>>>> also, keep an eye on #openmesh on twitter. looks like they will try and
>>> buy a satellite. I'm contributing ideas for tech., from afar (still, if
> they
>>> can help - got to push this) - strange bed fellows, I'm on my own. but
> I'm
>>> trying to add ideas to make it robust AND pushing to give it to an
>>> International Org., for full transparency -not US control.
>>>> it's an interesting read,
>>>> at least #borgboxgs1 comments ;)
>>>>
>>>> anyone know of a good trusted Org. to run the SAT?
>>>>
>>>> the US centric core group is probably ignoring common sense I think :(
>>>> note: Gary Jay Brooks seems like a good egg so far. Shervin???
>>>>
>>>> maybe more push from the international community would help.
>>>>
>>>> it has good potential in the right hands.
>>>>
>>>> to be seen...
>>>>
>>>> Peace Brother
>>>>
>>>> gs1
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPod
>>>>
>>>> On Feb 3, 2011, at 0:31, Jay Emerson <jemers2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Would members of PPI be up for helping us lobby this company to provide
>>> free Satellite Internet Services for the Egyptian people?
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.egyptsat.com/
>>>>>
>>>>> I have started a PiratePad and will collaborate with others if this is
>>> something some of us would want to do:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://piratenpad.de/ipzdFy569K
>>>>>
>>>>> While it has been restored, I think preparing for another shut down is
>>> best and what we do:
>>>
> http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/02/egypt-internet-back-up-as-protests-turn-violent-in-cairo/
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance and feel free to start without me on the PiratePad.
>>>>>
>>>>> - Jay
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Jay Emerson
>>>>> Administrative Officer
>>>>> New York Pirate Party
>>>>>
>>>>> "My user has information that could...that could make this a free
> system
>>> again! No, really! You'd have programs lined up just to use this place,
> and
>>> no MCP looking over your shoulder." - Tron
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