> There are many situations where I’d love to be able to chat with people a few hundred meters away without a network connection It's a shame because the neces

> There are many situations where I’d love to be able to chat with people a few hundred meters away without a network connection It's a shame because the necessary technologies and protocols have all existed for a decade or more: XMPP over mDNS-announced endpoints and wifi in ad-hoc mode was supported by Pidgin many years ago.