The new focus is to create a distributed network of wifi locations, each running an instance of the forum software, each serving those in its immediate vicinity. The content from one location’s forum can also migrate to other locations through a syncing mechanism that takes advantage of users moving from node to node. The long term goal is to deploy a broad network of wifi hardware running the Occupy.here software. In the short term the focus is limited to deploying the network throughout New York City in a number of locations to be determined.

‘Use these tools running on M-Lab to test your internet connection and perform diagnostics.’ Test connection speed, see if your ISP is throttling/blocking certain apps or traffic, or is traffic shaping, etc. etc.

Michael Nieling/Ocupop designed the icons icons/badges/logos/banners for this. On 8 June, 2011, Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Akamai and Limelight Networks will be amongst some of the major organisations that will offer their content over IPv6 for a 24-hour ‘test flight’. The goal of the Test Flight Day is to motivate organizations across the industry — Internet service providers, hardware makers, operating system vendors and web companies — to prepare their services for IPv6 to ensure a successful transition as IPv4 addresses run out.

The cool thing is that they actually are.