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"And to wrap this up, here's the best piece of news for the day..." I paused, enjoying the moment. "The last node of the Indian hackerspaces network is now live ! You guys have put together your own, completely built from scratch, nation-wide communication infrastructure tying these innovation spaces together, and to hackerspaces all around the world. Give yourselves a big round of applause !"

It was a room of 50 hackers, but the cheering made it sound like it was two, three times that and was the perfect conclusion to 4 months worth of work estimating needs, scouting for instinctive hackers, coordinating efforts over the country with the help of other Agents and finding alternate solutions on the way with everyone's help. Perfect in an organic, networked way and so worth it.

"It's been awesome working with you guys and I'm very sad to leave - but I know that I'll hear a lot of you all, your hackers, and the inventions you will come up with. There's some face-changing waiting to happen, and thanks to you India will play its part. Namasté !"

And with this, it was over. They were chatting with each other, already resuming the bouncing idea back and forth as I collected my last notes, shook some hands and headed out. This hackerspaces network was going to thrive, because it was in these people's minds before it was a reality the EVOKE teams helped make come true.

The phone caught me as I was picking the last of my stuff and thinking of how nice it would be to go back to France and the US for some time off. Guy going by the name of Number, first name Unknown. So much for time off !

"Hello, sir !

(... ?)

Yes, everything went fine. The usual kinks to work out here and there, nothing a little protovating couldn't solve. Give it another few months, 2 years at worst and India's hacker and maker culture will thrive and promote innovation. The network should also provide local to national scale relevant information...And I think they already want to extend its features. We should see some really good stuff coming out of all this.

(...?)

Sure ! I was going to start my way back to Europe to spend some time with the wife and kids, so it's right on my way. I can be in Morocco by...Early next week ? Would that work ?

(...)

Perfect ! I'll report in as soon as I get there. Thank you, sir.

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FACT : In 2010, Afghanistan started rolling out their own made-from-scratch wireless communication network through the FabFi project, an open source, wireless communications project. You can read more about the wh*** project, its structure and features on the FabFi project website !