I like this idea, do you know Byzantium project? Ad-hoc wireless mesh networking for the zombie apocalypse. http://project-byzantium.org/
Sounds too far away, but they're serious, and made it cool. But I think the spaceship is more about the hardware, or is it just a simulator project? Best regards. Amirouche writes: > Héllo, > > > I joined the GNU project as a Guile developper because it was the > correct technical solution for my immediate needs. GNU is one of the > best project incubator I know of. Also GNU with the help of the FSF > promote and protect our free sotfwares and other aspects of freedom. > > Nowdays you can proudly say that free software is the norm and the > basic building block upon which everyday commercial offerings are > created. Let's repeat it. Nowdays free software is widespread, global > and like the pacific ocean it looks like a natural resource. > > I don't forget that hardware is mostly not free. > > What I see in general is that projects with a goal have much more > success. A lot of project aim to copy and improve existing > softwares. This is good but not enough to make the hive dream. > > Innovation is difficult. Let's aim for the stars. > > Let's build a free self-sufficent and sustainable space-ship for a one > way trip to another habitable planet with the goal to settling a > colony. > > I draw initial requirements for that projects: > > - The official languages may be English and Esperanto > - The official programming languages may be C and Guile > > It will take advantage of existing GNU project, because GNU leads the > way and we can't ignore guix. > > The travel between planets may take several decades, so the spaceship > must be able to > fully sustain life of 1 million persons during several decades. The > maximum capacity of the spaceship may be 3 millions lifes. > > The project is not only about building spaceship navigation > system. It's all about sustain life over a long period of time and > prepare for what's next ie. rebuild the entire production means > available on Earth. > > In the course of the project, we will make sure to improve on Earth's > state of affair by documenting, building and using software and > hardware but with a purpose. > > WDYT? -- GNU Powered it GPL Protected it GOD Blessed it HFG - NalaGinrut Fingerprint F53B 4C56 95B5 E4D5 6093 4324 8469 6772 846A 0058
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
