RightMesh Bi-Weekly Update: January 24, 2019
By: Amber Mclennan
Tags: Canada, Rmbiweeklyupdate, Mesh Networks, Mesh Networking, Digital Divide

It has been a busy two weeks for our development team working with Dr. Lucien Loiseau, in the Canadian office from Singapore, on DTN (delayed tolerant networks) and with Dr. Dan Gillis and Nic Durish, visiting from the University of Guelph, on the Mitacs research project. In addition, we brought on 4 new development team members, launched a new social video campaign, and released our first podcast!

Read on for our full update!

TL: DR

Connectivity Stories video series introduced;

RightMesh development team grows by four;

Dr. Dan Gillis and Nic Durish visit the Canadian office to work on the Mitacs research project;

Dr. Lucien Loiseau visits the Canadian office from Singapore to work on delayed tolerant networks;

RightAngle podcast series released.

Press

Introducing Connectivity Stories

Internet accessibility is a human right as defined by the United Nations in 2015. Yet, 3.9 billion people (56% of the world) are unconnected because of a lack of infrastructure or affordability constraints.

We want to help tell the stories of those who struggle with connectivity or remain unconnected. Our new social video series, Connectivity Stories, will do that.

Created by RightMesh Ambassadors and Nodebodies from around the world, these social videos give insight into the connectivity challenges — such as price, coverage, lack of infrastructure, or government intervention — faced by people every day.

Tech

DTN: Our Lead Mesh Networking Scientist, Dr. Lucien Loiseau, was in our Canadian office for the past two weeks working on delayed tolerant networks (DTN). Dr. Loiseau conducted multiple workshops for the team and provided additional training on the technical side of the integration of DTN to the RightMesh platform.

Our Lead Mesh Networking Scientist, Dr. Lucien Loiseau, was in our Canadian office for the past two weeks working on delayed tolerant networks (DTN). Dr. Loiseau conducted multiple workshops for the team and provided additional training on the technical side of the integration of DTN to the RightMesh platform. Mitacs Research Project: This week we had Dr. Dan Gillis, Associate Professor at the University of Guelph School of Computer Science and Scientific Advisor for the RightMesh Project in the Maple Ridge office. Dr.Gillis and RightMesh CTO, Dr. Jason Ernst, worked on the Mitacs funded research program with our first two interns, Nic Durish and Xuan Luo.

This week we had Dr. Dan Gillis, Associate Professor at the University of Guelph School of Computer Science and Scientific Advisor for the RightMesh Project in the Maple Ridge office. Dr.Gillis and RightMesh CTO, Dr. Jason Ernst, worked on the Mitacs funded research program with our first two interns, Nic Durish and Xuan Luo. While together in the office, the four planned the next steps in Xuan’s research on micropayment channels, reviewed logistics and administrative needs for the program, and identified how the program will continue to expand.

Nic Durish, Dr. Daniel Gillis, and Dr. Jason Ernst discussing the eNuk project.

Developer Team Growth

The RightMesh team is excited to welcome our four newest developers, Xuan Luo, Post Doctoral Researcher (MITACS), Peter Dan, Software Developer, Penji Chavula, Software Developer (co-op), and Matt Falkner, Software Developer (co-op) to our growing developer team.

RightAngle Podcast Released!

RightAngle has become a podcast!

We are pleased to announce our new podcast series ‘RightAngle’ — our series of interviews with mission-driven blockchain projects sharing their angle on their vision, the industry, and more.

For our first instalment of the podcast series, we spoke with Tricia Martinez, the CEO and Founder of Wala, a best-of-breed financial platform built on the blockchain. Wala’s mission is to help emerging market consumers reach financial prosperity by eliminating their barriers to banking.

RightMesh Has Moved to Rocket.Chat

Don’t forget that we have transitioned our main channel of communications from Telegram to Rocket.Chat.

With Rocket.Chat, community members can participate in conversations that specifically interest you and avoid the ones that don’t. We can take deeper dives into specific subject matters and spark more productive conversations by segmenting topics into clearly defined channels including:

#tech

#bizdev

#rmesh

#use-cases

#announcements

#careers

#press

#chinese-channel

#russian-channel

#support

#rocketchat-feedback

We’re Hiring!

We are looking for passionate problem solvers to join our growing team and help us connect the next billion.

Current open positions include: