Qaul
S01:E07

Qaul

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Episode description

This episode explores the varied means of communicating when the internet gets shut down with the qaul قول project, a delay tolerant network. Stemming from the arab spring and seeing the need for a means of communicating when authoritarian governments shut down the internet, Mathias Jud shares insights from the past 15 years of solving the challenge of communication during internet outage, from the early days of talk back to NSA to current challenges.

In this interview projects such as libp2p, Meshtastic, Reticulum and Meshcore are mentioned as well as the upcoming events of DWeb Camp 2026 in Berlin, Global Gathering in Portugal , Battlemesh in Croatia and Kollapscamp in Berlin

0:00Introduction
3:03Talk back to NSA
6:03Origin of Qaul
9:09Past 15 years of Mesh
19:19Modularity
23:10Challenges
27:20How they build Qaul
29:10Upcoming and Current Developments
30:43Terminology
33:08Meshcore, Meshtastic and Reticulum
40:58Dreams for the future
46:54Funding
49:02Connecting with Qaul