Looking for Mesh users in Puerto Rico or USVIs

[danielagotenna]

Copy/pasting relevant posts from another thread:

@femmesh

Peep goTenna Mesh in The Verge today:

Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria: when communication is a matter of life and death - The Verge

Even so, the startup goTenna is sending several hundred antennas that pair with mobile devices. These could allow first responders to create a type of mesh network in order to send texts and GPS coordinates via radio waves over longer distances than a walkie-talkie.

Nice work @Rahul_Subramany @danielagotenna @Jin_Gotenna and the rest of the goTenna Staff!

@danielagotenna

It’s true that a bunch of goTenna Mesh devices are in or on their way to Puerto Rico for use by various civilian responder groups as well as the US Army Corps of Engineers Savannah District, the University of Puerto Rico, some business/risk recovery firms.

A group called Global Health Response and Resilience Alliance is also deploying tonight to Dominica, and of course Mesh devices are in continued use by All Hands Volunteers in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

We’ve donated as much as we have inventory for, and sold these groups many at heavily-discounted rates. We’re hopeful we’ll learn a lot about how they were useful in a few weeks!

More on the USVI deployment is chronicled here: About goTenna

Finally, @Flutterbyasaurus is heading to (or already left to?) PR with goTenna Mesh this week to search for a missing girl:

@Flutterbyasaurus

We’ll be

searching for a missing girl and definitely need to be able to reach each

other.