Distributing Code & Math Across Africa
summary
Deployable binary bundles (Burrito) put the BEAM and a LiveView app onto ragged student laptops via USB, cross-compiled for Windows and Linux, and nodes boot across a school in ~30–40 minutes. Local discovery uses mDNS / multicast DNS to find nodes and a hotspot initializer creates a LAN; membership uses partisan so node identity stays constant while IPs change. Runs in 10 Gambian schools with an infectious sharing panel that restores live collaborative visibility.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Paper Land and Mathland intro
- 3:27Papert’s Mathland vision
- 5:35Human feedback gathering
- 11:06Finding people Gambia Senegal
- 14:15Offline challenges Erlang nodes
- 17:21Collaborative offline experiences
- 23:21Node discovery mDNS Partisan
- 28:57Live offline demo
- 33:32Future of distribution
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