Guaka! - travel

Wanted: Wireless Researcher for project in Dharamsala, India

Guaka — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:10:11 +0000

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In 2005 I spent some time ICT volunteering for Geekcorp Mali. And in 2001 I traveled in India and had a great time in the North. Now, a ICT volunteer is actually needed in Dharamsala. Contact me if you have the skills, time and you feel like an amazing experience:

AirJaldi, a nonprofit dedicated to harnessing the capabilities of the internet for the benefit of rural communities in developing countries, is looking for a highly-motivated and experienced person to take a central role in carrying out an innovative research project aimed at developing a viable Bandwidth Maximizer for rural Wireless ISPs (WISPS). The job is based in Dharamsala, HP, India. Your technical work will be supervised and monitored by AirJaldi’s CEO and CTO. You will report directly to AirJaldi’s CEO, based in Dharamsala. Responsibilities/Scope of Work: Lead Research focusing on, amongst others:

Searching and testing low-cost or Free software and hardware products for use as parts of the BwM system.

Adapting and integrating hardware and software components to create the BwM system.

Test and deploy a prototype BwM in the lab, on an emulated network and on a production network in Dharamsala.

Document and summarize research findings and participate in preparing project reports for funding body and general circulation.

Prepare Operation manuals on setting up, configuring and operating the BwM.

Assist in other AirJaldi tasks as needed and required by the CEO.

Extensive hands-on experience with administration of GNU/Linux and Linux-based networks and systems. Past employment with an ISP, hosting-facility or IT department of a large enterprise a major plus.

Strong familiarity with F/OSS tools and their integration.

You should be very confident with the following terms, protocols, servers and environments: multilayer IP switching and routing, firewalls (iptables), Policy-routing, DNS management and debugging, SMTP (sendmail, exim), POP/IMAP, HTTP (apache), Squid, Radius, LDAP, VPNs (OpenVPN), etc.

Familiarity with NMS and network provisioning systems is essential- the job will require setup of advanced Nagios-based network monitoring systems for very large and complex networks.

Familiarity with the following tools and similar ones required: Nagios, Cacti, MRTG, RRD, SNMP, Munin/Orca.

Experience with routing protocols, QoS setups, Embedded-Linux, MS-Windows machines support (Samba, wins) a plus.

Previous knowledge of RF a plus.

Previous field experience, in particular in a developing country, a great asset.

Qualifications / Skills / Experience In order to successfully carry out your work and as importantly, enjoy it and derive as much satisfaction from it as we do, you will need to: Be willing and able to live in a small, rural setting. Ability to work within a multi-national multi-lingual and multi-cultural team. Be an excellent team player – we mean this. Our team is built is based on getting the most from each of our team members, which calls for mutual respect and support. (professional and personal). You will be required to adhere to these principles.

Back in A'dam

Guaka — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:49:04 +0000

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My unlimited MetroCard was still valid for a day and a half so I left it to the poor soul who was robbed from all of his belongings in Lower Manhattan - he was also staying at my host's place in Williamsburg. I had a good flight to Dublin, where I had a very pleasant stay with Dublin's superhost. The guy has been hosting more than 1000 people. Now I'm back in Amsterdam, and it feels good to be among friends. It was just a bit annoying to find out that a "1 zone" tram ride in Amsterdam costs 2,60 euro these days. I boycotted that and walked instead - with about 25 kg of extra weight. Then later on I found out I did have my NS kortingskaart on me that can double as an OV chip...

Some questions and answers

Guaka — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:37:25 +0000

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> Hope you are doing fine... At the outset, I am V Kumara Swamy, a journalist > with The Telegraph, Calcutta, India... I am doing a story on the concept of > couch surfing and your friend Thomas Goorden recommended your name while > responding to my queries on the same. He said that since you are a fairly > frequent couchsurfer with some experience of India, you would be of great > help to me. > I thought an interaction with you would add immense value to my article. > I would be extremely grateful if you could take some time out and answer my > queries.. Hi Kumara, Ok. Great!

> Here's what i would like to know: > > 1) Please tell me a little bit about the journey of your couch surfing.org.. > How did you start..and which are the countries you have visited so far? How > many times have you come to India?

I have started using another website for hospitality exchange in April 2004. Since then I've traveled extensively, mostly by means of hitchhiking and staying with local people - in Europe, South America, the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, South East Asia, China and currently the Middle East. I have traveled in India once, but that was in 2001, before online hospitality exchange was widely spread. I had a completely different traveling experience, it was my first time out of Europe, so I was very unexperienced. I spent 9 weeks in India though and I had contact with the local population, but I exclusively stayed in guest houses. However, I spent 2 weeks in Udaipur to learn sitar and the teaching space was inside the teacher's home - so I had food there and was even invited for a Hindu marriage ceremony.

> 2) Today, how many people are enrolled as couchsurfers. In which part of the > world is it more popular?

There are over 500.000 people involved in couchsurfing and other organizations. From my experience it's definitely more spread in Western countries. Even though there were no members in rural China when I hitchhiked there last year, I have found it possible to find hospitality in most countries I've visited since 2004.

> 3) Has the concept of couchsurfing helped you getting in touch with more > people from around the world and how many times have you couchsurfed > yourself??

Definitely, I have stayed in people's homes on 6 continents, and I haven't exactly counted the number of times I've stayed with people, but it must have been hundreds. As a hitchhiker you often can't plan ahead where you end up and many people that I merely met at gas stations while asking for a ride have offered me a place to sleep. Even though it's not the major reason for couchsurfing the aspect of free accommodation has also allowed me to keep on traveling for extended periods of time - especially in combination with the free transport of hitchhiking and my IT skills, that have allowed me to easily find volunteer work in countries such as Mali and Peru.

> 4) At the time when the world is facing economic meltdown..do think > couchsurfing is like a boon? Are more and more people taking advantage of > this concept?

In affluent countries there is still so much waste and under-allocation of resources (empty rooms, empty seats, food in dumpsters, and so on), I consider couchsurfing as a way to turn unused space into an occasion for people to share experiences and culture. The economy going down might lead people to more efficient ways of using resources (and my contributions to that are hitchwiki.org and trashwiki.org).

For the short periods of time that I have had a more sedentary lifestyle - renting an apartment and working a day job - my guests were free to use anything they could find in my fridge (which is usually chockfull).

> 5) Please tell me about a good experience you had via couch surfing..that > made you really feel good?

Recently I have hitchhiked from Amsterdam to Jerusalem, through Turkey, Syria and Jordan. For this trip I decided not to use couchsurfing, but I still experienced amazing hospitality. In Romania a woman I randomly met in a local bus invited me to stay at her home - after I had spent 36 hours on the road.

The trucker who took me to Istanbul from the Turkish border helped me find my way in the city, when he left other random strangers continued helping me find my way and (since I hadn't acquired any Turkish money yet) pay my bus tickets right up to the front door of a friend with whom I was going to stay. He was not home and his Kurdish neighbors who barely spoke English invited me to wait in their home, offered me food, and I fell asleep on their couch and I woke up there the next morning. Muslim hospitality can be overwhelming.

> 6) Please tell me about your experiences as a couchsurfer in India? Where > all have been in India, and tell me a bit about your hosts and the > experiences. It would be really great if you could recount one interesting > couchsurfing experience in India.

Unfortunately I don't have any experiences as a couchsurfer in India. I am looking forward to go back to India some day though. And though I've successfully hitchhiked almost anywhere I am a bit worried about the possibilities of hitchhiking in India.

> 7) What do you do otherwise..please send me a few details..

I hold an MSc in mathematics and work as an internet consultant (here and there, now and then), but most of my online time goes into non-profit wikis and other forms of social use of the internet (though I recently started two wikis with which I want to make some money: visawiki.org and cashwiki.org). The internet offers new modes of sharing, both online and in real life. CouchSurfing is one way. (I've volunteered for the couchsurfing organization for 9 months, but I'm not very happy with the direction chosen by the couchsurfing leadership.) I think we will see much more of this in the coming years, online systems for coordination that allow people to live their lives in more pleasant ways (check e.g. groundcrew.us). Besides that I love learning languages and the restriction of only 10 languages on couchsurfing profiles is a bit annoying ;)

> I would be extremely grateful if you could reply as early as possible as I > have a very short deadline....

Ok. Good luck! namaste,

How I got hold of my bag

Guaka — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:16:47 +0000

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The Bulgarian border guards didn't speak English. They also didn't understood why I was sent back. It gave me some courage to at least get my backpack back. When I saw 2 more people on the Turkish side I decided to walk back and give it a try. The baksheesh border cop was human enough to walk with me to the gathering of Turkish truckers dealing with bureaucracy. I hadn't taken Ahmet's phone number, I just knew his truck was yellow. There seemed to be 100s of trucks. And I couldn't recognize Ahmet among the truckers. The baksheesh cop said (in Turkish and body language) that my trucker had already left. Which I didn't believe.

On the way back to Bulgaria Ahmet appeared out of the hurd of trucks. Relief. I got back my bag and shook hands with Ahmet who also didn't understand the miserable man.

Again I walked to Bulgaria in the dark, this time with some more weight (including my laptop and some more essential travel equipment). On the way 2 Bulgarian border officers told me that they never heard of anything similar and that I should just try again. But well, not with the miser that send me back. "Not tomorrow, never can you come back to Turkish", at least, that's how much I understood with my Turkish phrasebook (that has now traveled now back in la Casa together with Marc).

I went to change some money, had to count and recount the money given by the bitchy border exchange woman and went into the warmth of a gas station's shop. No tea. The boy working there was able to tell there was a train to Istanbul from Svilengrad, the nearest town.

After about half an hour a guy with a familiar face entered the establishment. Somehow he started speaking French to me. "Moi je suis un capitaliste." He had the same madness for life, money and women as a loony Ukrainian artist I had known in Paris. Though somewhat less successful.

"Moi je suis riche.", said Angel. Apparently he owned 1 house, 2 apartments and 2 cars. His main occupation was exchanging foreign cash for Bulgarian coins, at least that night. Remarkably the car he had chosen that night had some troubles starting. But I had a ride to Svilengrad, where I took a shower in a luxurious hotel. The early morning light appeared outside when I fell asleep.

I had ruled out the train option when I found out it was only going after midnight. At the bus station in Svilengrad I socialized with some old Bulgarians. The cord in my bag cover had slipped inside and fortunately an old lady was happy to fix it. The bus arrived and took me towards Capitan Andreevo. After everyone had already gotten out of the bus 2 women and a little girl got in.

They were traders and without too much communication we formed a bond. I knew they want to get as many cigarettes into Turkey and well, I don't speak Turkish. They hitched a ride with car (good!), but we got out when there was no movement anymore. We just walked, showed passports here and there. I bought cigarettes (with the money she had given me), walked some more. And more. All the way to the Turkey that was free from corrupt officials.

There I put my bag and the bag with cigarettes down. Shaked hands, said "spaseeba", picked up my own bag and left the cigarettes for them. The taxi leeches were looking hopefully but my response was "autostop" and I walked towards the first trucks I saw.

And of course, the second trucker I saw was happy to take me to Istanbul. And from that moment till the next morning was an amazing succession of Turkish hospitality. He had been riding through Europe for more than 3 months. Of which he had been waiting 1 month in Russia for some papers that didn't happen thanks to baksheesh and bureacracy.

Now he was on his way to Gaziantep, close to the Syrian border. He had to park his truck somewhere in Istanbul though. The thought of heading to Syria was tempting but I had decided to not continue directly.

Aleppo was amazing. Not as much for the scenery as for their people. At a fruit stall I started talking to a real estate agent who took me on a tour through Aleppo. I had no idea I was in a city of 4 million people. The mosque was splendid and the view from the ancient building I was taken to was amazing.

I hadn't read Hitchwiki and just decided to just start walking towards the South and see where I would end up. A German speaking guy told me it was impossible to hitchhike. Heard that before. I just kept on walking and walking until I found a halfway decent spot to stop a car. And got a ride further out of the city, towards a roundabout, where I continued walking

I was summoned by a smiling Syrian cop. It was a funny feeling shaking his white handkerchief. I decided to just sit down and wait. Surprisingly a couple of buses refused his signs and drove on. Finally a minivan stopped. The music they played was exstatic. The landscape magic, though the spell was broken by the large amounts of plastic bottles and other random garbage besides the road. I realized I was in a vehicle that was mainly going around to pick up and drop military personnel.

I'm typing this from E's parents' home. Half an hour across the border that no one has crossed in my lifetime. I got here in a bus (it was dark and her 90 year old grandma forbade us to hitchhike and paid our bus tickets). There were more weapons than I've seen on the other side, and their holders were barely adults.

I mostly agreed with their anti-zionist stance and my subscription of Le Monde Diplomatique only ended when they placed Microsoft ad two issues in a row. I've read a tiny bit of Chomsky (which is still a lot). But seeing is believing. Many mixed feelings.

1000 articles in Hitchwiki!

Guaka — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:40:58 +0000

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Today we reached the milestone of 1000 articles at Hitchwiki.org! It took less than 3 years to get there. Already before I found the then called "Hitchhiker's guide to Hitchhiking" I was sure that a wiki for hitchhikers was a good idea. So I'm very happy that I moved the project to Wikia.com in December 2005. At some point I had been thinking to move it to hitchhikers.couchsurfing.com, but fortunately MrTweek was around. He did an excellent job setting up and maintaining the current Hitchwiki.org and adding the extremely cool integrated maps. All in all the project has become a prime source of current hitchhiking info, and a lightning rod for online social cooperation - in three years' time we never felt the need to set up even a single rule. Next...

Last week I contacted Salman of digihitch.com and we can probably show a nicely integrated Hitchwiki on there!
More syndication, especially maps.hitchwiki.org to other places and vice versa
More info in other languages besides English
Most important: continue the do-ocratic conviviality!

Alta - Helsinki - Tallinn - Riga

Guaka — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:28:44 +0000

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Sorry about all the detail. The last post has been a while now and I want to write it down while it's fresh. I can always rewrite it later when I'll work on my book. We tried leaving Alta for Tromso, but after 2,5 hours of a lot of cars and none stopping we decided to just head south. It took another 1,5 hour before someone stopped. For the shortest ride of our trip, 2 km only, but it was encouraging, especially thanks to the strawberries we got from the young woman who picked us up. From the bus stop we were dropped at we didn't have to wait that long again to get a ride to Kautokeino, in a huge Chevrolet, driven by a guy attending a Christian meet-up. He only talked a little bit about Christ and the gospels his friend had made were actually a good way to learn some more Norwegian. After walking and waiting a bit a guy stopped. A friendly dog in the trunk. He was on his way to Rovaniemi, which meant we could go along for quite a while. We found out he was actually going for a weekend of hunting. Nice to find out for two (mostly) vegans. Well, at least killing the animals you eat is more sincere than having a huge machinery do it for you. We were dropped in an abandoned tiny village and decided to continue a bit more, even though it was 22:30 or so. Of course it was still light, we hadn't seen more darkness than the blinders would give us in 5 days. Surprisingly, a couple stopped, and then I had made a mistake. I left the bluetooth GPS device given to me by Marcus on my bag. So I lost it there. It was much faster in getting a satelite fix than my N810 so I slightly miss it these days. Then after 25 minutes driving we were really dropped in the middle of nowhere and killing mosquitos decided to set up our tent. In the morning we heard "nok nok" and some Russian but we didn't feel like inviting the millions of mosquitos in our cozy tent. Later we got a ride from a Norwegian on his way to buy a fridge. At the crossroads two friendly Finnish women picked us up. They were totally into fishing. We were dropped at a city at the Northern coast of Finland where it took us not too much time to get a ride to Oulu. I had sent a bunch of texts to our potential host in Oulu but hadn't received anything back. I decided to give her a call when we were 50 minutes away from Oulu. Apparently none of my messages had come through. The same thing happened in Denmark, where my messages never made it to the recipient. I will have to file a complaint with Vodaphone, especially if they still dare to charge some ridiculous amount of money for sending less than 160 bytes. She was actually on her way to a festival close to the spot where we found our ride to Oulu. In the meanwhile, our driver told us he was driving all the way to Lahti, 90 km from Helsinki. Since our back-up plans in Oulu were not working out either we decided to head to Lahti and see if we could still hitch to Helsinki from there. Our driver had to drop off his trailer at his summer house, which freaked out E a little bit since it was not even on my GPS map. We got there around midnight. There was a gas station and a big mall. And lots of mall rats. With scooters. And "no picknick". We had some food anyway, thanks to the supermarkt guard. Then we tried a bit of hitching. No luck. So we pitched our tent in a little bush next to the highway. Next morning, oh well, a bit later, we started hitching. I guess it took 2 hours (not looking at the time) before a car stopped. Not going south. We decided to take the ride anyway and the friendly old man showed us how pretty the little village used to be. We wereropped and started walking in the direction back to the highway (but more south). Again we were picked up by a friendly old guy and then we had to walk even more. After hours of walking and thumbing we were getting slightly desperate, less than 80 km away from Helsinki. Then finally an angel stopped. She was a very friendly nurse who had been looking for berries in the forest. We hugged goodbye at a metro station in Helsinki. We finally were able to take a shower and clean Anu's fridge. We quite a few days in Helsinki, first at Anu's, then at Laura's. Dumpster dove quite a bit and made delish food, vegan soup, pancakes. I finished the garam masala and bought some new. The ferry to Tallinn was a forebode for the internet situation in Estonia. You can find (unprotected wireless) internet in almost every street corner and apartment. Apart from Andros' place. I had to plug a cable into my newly bought Acer Aspire One. We cleaned out his junk room so we had a very comfy place to sleep. He also had a car and loved to drive around people all over town. Yesterday morning he took us to a good spot to hitch out of Tallinn. The first driver was an IT/artist guy who drove us to Parnu. When we got there we had some baked goods and it started pouring down. We were almost tempted to take a bus. It appeared to cost more than 10 euros per person though, and the rain, well, hitchhiking in the rain is good for character building and practicing bad Russian. We found a local bus eastward and when I thought I saw a gas station we got off. To find out that we could have gone 4 more stops. But we saw a lot of trucks coming our way and started walking there, almost drowing in the rain. We decided to ask at a gas station and my bad Russian appeared to be very useful. We found a ride to the border with a friendly Latvian Russian guy. The radio was all about the war in Georgia. In Russian though, but we had already been drowned with news about the war in Tallinn. People are very concerned here. I'm glad Marian didn't take the plane to volunteer and report the mayhem. At the border we tried hitching. I asked 2 truck drivers, but they didn't want to take two people. I did see 4 very similar trucks and decided to try and ask them if they could take us. We where dropped next to a highway because they didn't go all the way to Riga and through my GPS found out that we were at Salaspils. Walked a lot. Missed the last train. Walked even more. Found a microbus for 1 lat (1,50 EUR) to the city. Happy. In Riga we were warmly welcomed with Leffe, food (but not veggy) by Inga, her roommates and two tiny black tom kittens who where very happy with the food. Now we're sitting in the Old Town hostel that was the focal point of the Riga Winter Camp 2,5 years ago. There's free wireless and I've done some Drupal hacking on my 1 kg laptop.

Muy muy muy Alta (en el norte)

Guaka — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:28:39 +0000

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We didn't leave Stockholm the time we expected. It happened a couple of days later. And even on that Sunday we were very late, I got stung by a bee in the last moment. We went to a hitch spot I found on Hitchbase, which was rather bad actually. We got a ride after a long while and ended up in Uppsala. But we didn't want to stay there, so we hitched out while it was getting dark. Fortunately you can put your tent almost anywhere in Sweden, legally.We didn't leave Stockholm the time we expected. It happened a couple of days later. And even on that Sunday we were very late, I got stung by a bee in the last moment. We went to a hitch spot I found on Hitchbase, which was rather bad actually. We got a ride after a long while and ended up in Uppsala. But we didn't want to stay there, so we hitched out while it was getting dark. Fortunately you can put your tent almost anywhere in Sweden, legally. While I was looking for a place for our mobile home a car stopped. A Peruvian, which was great for refreshing my Spanish a little bit. (Peruvian Spanish is a lot clearer than Argentinian or Spanish Spanish.) We were dropped in a little village not too far and found a nice spot. After an hour or so it started to rain. And thunder, and pour down. It was the first (and so far only) real test of our tent. It held out perfectly fine. It was a little moist on the sides, but next time I'll put the plastic ground sheet underneath the tent so that the water can disappear easily. Time is different here. It's 23:55 and it's completely light out. Apart from the dark clouds. We made it all the way up to Alta, which is only 237 km from Nordkapp and 3000 km from where we started in Amsterdam a week and a half ago. When we woke up in the little village we tried hitchhiking, but there was almost no traffic and the few cars that passed us, well, they passed us. After a while we found a gas station and there was a guy with his daughter who we asked about the situation. He was so nice to go out of his way to drop us at the highway entrance. Unfortunately there was not much traffic either, and well, it didn't stop either. When we saw big dark clouds appear we decided to start walking. On the highway. A lot of traffic passed us, but as always, there is this one great person who decides to stop. We were dropped at the best gas station ever. We met two hitchhiking girls with amazing arm pit hair and we spent some time in swimming in the lake. It was beautiful. But then we had to find our ride to Umea, where we had two places to stay, and many people at the gas station gave us "the face", not even an answer, just an empty gaze. We tried walking out of there, but the next gas station according to the map software on my N810 was just a bunch of trees. So we had to walk back. And waited more. While I went to the toilet a car finally stopped, heading for Sundsvall. Again a non-Swedish driver. This one from the North of Iraq. He spoke many languages, but not English. So I had another great chance to practice my Swedish. He dropped us of at an amazing spot for long-distance hitchhiking. There we met Josephine, a 17 year old barefoot first-time hitchhiker. She was on her way to some hippie festival relatively close to Sundsvall and missed the last bus (at 16:00 or so). She asked us if she could join us. Well, fine. I started "priming" on a little corner so that people could see me from afar and E and Josephine stood close to the bags at a good place for stopping. After an unspecifed amount of time (I don't really check the time anymore) a Norwegian car stopped. I told Josephine to talk to the driver and he was heading to Umea! We all got in the car and started driving, towards the town of the festival. Josephine appeared to be in a circus high school and had travelled to Egypt. It was great fun talking to her. Tomas, the driver, was a bit more quiet. Josephine was dropped and I moved to the front seat, talked a little bit and found out he was driving all the way to the North. We decided to go for it! We dropped by at a big supermarket to spend our last Swedish Kronor on food, contacted our host in Umea. Jonas is probably the coolest truck driver I ever met. His fridge is vegan and his computer runs Ubuntu. Unfortunately we didn't have a lot of time to chat. The next morning he had to leave to work early and we were picked up at 9:00 sharp by Tomas for our long ride North. We met up with Linnea for a short lunch at the beach in Lulea. I had met her in Lima and it was nice to see her in her home town. We continued through endless forests, lakes and mosquito storms. Today I've done a tiny bit of work on my favorite Wikipedias and as it happened Tonita has an acquaintance from Mali in Tromso. I spoke to him on the phone and we're heading there after Nordkapp. He's doing a PhD in anthropology and I guess he might be interested in WIkipedia in Bambara and/or Peul. I also had the defend the existence of the latter (and several others). Someone proposed the deletion of a whole bunch of Wikipedias. I still think that wikis are a viable mode of development for Africa, and that Bèrto ëd Sèra overlooked the fact that free software and wikis are a radically different mode of production, a third way, that somehow blends in perfectly well with capitalism. And that native speakers set the rules on Wikipedias, not corporate white America. In my experience you only need 3 active contributers to make a Wikipedia blossom and I'm very willing to spend a couple of hours now and then until we find those contributors for Bambara and Peul. Besides these serious issues we enjoyed the Alta Museum, the light, the hospitality of our host and merely being alive! and maybe some more kaltura

Wikivoyage

Guaka — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:55:11 +0000

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I have been a contributor on Wikitravel for a long time now. I was not too worried when Wikitravel was bought by Internet Brands (which has already shown interest in buying CouchSurfing). But I have been annoyed by the lack of database dumps at Wikitravel for a long time now. So I was very happy to stumble upon an alternative: Wikivoyage. The project was set up by disgruntled admins of the German version of Wikitravel. I haven't gone into the gory details, but it could be more than the lack of database dumps. My wild guess is that there was a cultural misunderstanding between Wikitravel, that was founded with an SF Bay Area Burning Man culture, and the Europeans dealing with policies created by them. It's funny to see some more parallels here with CouchSurfing but ortunately Wikitravel was already a lot more open (using Creative Commons and mostly open means of communication) than CS so forking was quite easy. Now let's see if a little bit more pressure will induce Internet Brands to make the dumps available.