EBrainPool

= aims at allowing software to be discovered and used from any device around you

URL = http://www.ebrain.in

Description

Erle Pereira:

"eBrainPool aims at allowing software to be discovered and used from any device around you. It enables any user running ebrainpool to discover and run software from someone else in the shared community resource pool and use it on their own netbook, phone or any other device. This means that she doesn't need the software installed on her device to use it - simply seek others with the software and use it on your device while it runs directly on their computer. While the architecture has been designed keeping in mind our long term goal of platform independence, it currently runs on Linux.

The broad goals are to provide software, computing and operating environments as a shared resource.

We've shared crayons in kindergarten and our toys growing up, we've shared our tools and we've benefited from sharing knowledge and our lives. Communities are brought closer by sharing, working and playing together. The long term vision of eBrainPool is to allow software with anyone in the community to be usable throughout the community, across boundaries of operating system and hardware capabilities and to not just bring us closer but to bind us stronger.

A short note on the technologies involved:

The original architecture used P2P to build the network, the current implementation has used Meshed Networking (OLSR -- www.olsr.org) to achieve a direct connection between the various devices involved. At the current time, Xorg (X Windows), SSH and Fuse are the other essential elements. Security and data abstraction are essential in the architectural design, a combination of ssh (libssh) and Fuse are being used to achieve this currently."

Status

May 2011:

"Truthfully, a lot of work remains. Our code is still in development alpha stage. Although rough what we would love is for this to be tested in a real life large mesh environment so we can study usability in a real world scenario. This is one area we need the most help with and we would appreciate it profusely if someone here would be willing to put a bunch of linux systems together in an ad-hoc mesh and test this out. We are currently working hard to clean up our code further to reduce the entry barrier for people trying this out and giving us valuable usability data." (NextNet, May 2011)