Ubiquiti Announces RouterStation Challenge Winners

Riskable writes "Remember that $200,000 Contest For a Better Open-WRT Wireless Router GUI? Today Ubiquiti posted the winning entries to their support wiki. The grand prize was a tie between PyCI (written by yours truly) and NETSHe with OpenNET as the runner up. Source code and firmware images for each entry are available for download on their respective wiki pages. I'll be setting up a project page for PyCI (and l2sh) soon to make it a participatory open source product. Even if you don't have a RouterStation, or don't care about OpenWRT, there are numerous Python modules and tools inside of PyCI that could prove useful to other open source projects (e.g. iptables.py can read/interpret over 400 permutations of the iptables command). I'll also be checking the comments if anyone has any questions for me about PyCI or the contest in general. BTW: I'd like to thank all the commenters in the original article that insinuated that the technical requirements were impossible and/or that making a GUI to configure such complex things is a waste of time. I read every one and I wouldn't have made it such an obsession otherwise!"

Comments

You KNOW It's "Open Source"

[Philip K Dickhead]

When there are TWO "first place" winners! HA!

I'm torn between exclaiming "Bravo!" and muttering "Typical..." :-)

Now, we can't decide between Qt, GTK-2, EXT3 or 4 or JFS or, between Beryl or Compfusion or between...

Any way, GOOD WORK LADS! Now, can you find a better way to inject this on most of the horrid little boxes? All that TFTP setup for 1.5 mb of binary, just one time? I can hardly bother!

Re:You KNOW It's "Open Source"

[Anonymous Coward]

It isn't. Not at all. It literally has "Trivial" in the name. Some people really shouldn't be here.

Re:What no HL mod?

[Darkness404]

...Because that isn't the best UI? I find myself in real life wishing that it had an easy to use UI like a computer sometimes. Plus navigation in the real world is tiring and time consuming. For example in the "real world" you find things in a file cabinet, that is a lot harder than just CTRL+F and the filename. A basic GUI is much better than a "real world" environment. It also doesn't need a high-powered graphics card and an up to date CPU.