Sorry for the spam, but a few more direct links with some relevant information on the project, just so people have a clue of what they might be working on :) http://www.caida.org/workshops/isma/1102/slides/aims1102_ssundaresan.pdf http://gettys.wordpress.com/2011/02/17/caida-workshop/ Thanks, Tim On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Tim Upthegrove wrote: > Greetings All! > > I am on a team of folks working on the BISMark project over at Georgia Tech > and around the world. > > The BISMark project is part of an effort to benchmark the openness of > network connections [1] as well as a means to collect data for identifying > problems such as bufferbloat [2] in upstream networks. > > Our goal is to collect performance metrics from a diverse set of locations > that sit at the edge of the Internet. > > The team is using OpenWRT on the wndr3700, noxbox, and an atom based > platform. > > While we are aware of resources such as this mailing list and the #openwrt > channel on irc, we are hoping to find a few people with significant OpenWRT > development experience and insight into OpenWRT best practices, to join our > team and help get us over some humps. > > Right now we could really use help with the packaging of some experimental > software. Are there any packaging experts around that could spend a few days > talking to a group of people on how to do it right? > > Our end goal is not just to have a new platform which people can use, but > to provide a slew of new packages and patches back to the OpenWRT community. > [3] > > More information on the project and how to participate can be seen at > http://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/bismark/wiki , and we can be found on > irc in #bismark and #bufferbloat on freenode.net > > Tim > > [1] http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?nid=65059 > [2] http://www.bufferbloat.net/ > [3] http://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/bismark/issues/ > >