The unMonastery rides again: unTransit development sprint in Matera

Day 4 & 5 - In da Hood (Feb 12 & 13, 2015)

This time I’ll try to keep it really short to get right back on the actual work we came here to do…

Failed Stewardship

Thursday (Day 4) started with a short visit to Palazzo del Casale - a venue in which we resided during unMonastery Matera, Pilot Session #1. We went there after receiving call from @RitaO with news that at 9:15AM someone will go there to pick up some chairs and this way we can get in and loo for wireless bridge antennas, which we planned to donate to local Ninux mesh. When we arrived we also had an opportunity to exchange greetings with couple of good old Comitato MT2019 folks :slight_smile:

To cut the long story short, the building got robbed recently including mesh network antennas which we tried to pass to Ninux already for last couple of weeks :frowning: Also various equipment acquired by Edgeryders/unMonastery vanished in this incident, IMO we could have stored it in more secure location (#TODO add to unMonastery - The Book of Mistakes). On top of that, electric wires with copper, heating system boilers and rack with network equipment got pulled out of the walls. I won’t dedicate any more time to that incident, especially that very likely @Alberto (sitting ATM right next to us) will follow up on that in more depth!

On much more positive side, in the evening we joined nice get together + buffet of MT2019 gang at Palazzo Lanfranchi. We could enjoy there again few short conversations with Rita, @ilariadauria, @rossellatarantino, Raffaella, Emmanuele and few other friends present :smiley:

Open Lab Matera

In last two days we stayed most of the time at Open Lab Matera. Working together, sharing lunch, chatting. We very much enjoyed warm atmosphere there, especially our unMonastic bro @Marc! Working from there allowed us to make progress on existing project of mapping Matera public transport, as well as start preparing for mapping Potenza next Thursday (Feb 19th)!

Last night we also finally met for dinner with Michele Salerno and chat about local mesh network (Ninux Matera). He expect his visit here later today, together with another friend of unMonastery - Vincenzo Altieri. They will try to setup a wireless bridge to us, using their own personal equipment!

More updates coming in next days!