"The goal of Project Byzantium is to develop a communication system by which users can connect to each other and share information in the absence of convenient

"The goal of Project Byzantium is to develop a communication system by which users can connect to each other and share information in the absence of convenient access to the Internet. This is done by setting up an ad-hoc wireless mesh network that offers services which replace popular websites often used for this purpose, such as Twitter and IRC." - from http://project-byzantium.org/about/ http://project-byzantium.org/about/