As a result of the damage done to New York City by Hurricane Sandy the week before last, Project Byzantium was contacted by representatives of several NGOs and non-profit organizations we've been in contact with as a result of our work on community wireless mesh networks. We were asked if Byzantium Linux might be useful in assisting relief efforts in New York City by restoring communications on the local level. As this is one of our primary use cases, we responded in the affirmative, and were told that we might be asked to go to New York City to help …

Project Byzantium is back from New York City, where we were assisting the people of the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn restore their communications infrastructure following Hurricane Sandy.

I'll have a writeup soon. I'm tired.

Sitwon wrote a brief article about it here.