<div dir="ltr">Let's meet and talk about what you are thinking about doing, and how it all works.<div><br></div><div style>I'm free all day today if you want to grab a coffee someplace, or similar.</div><div style>
<br></div><div style>-steve</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Miguel Vargas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:unroar@gmail.com" target="_blank">unroar@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Steve, <br><br></div>Yes! We've been on the hunt for locations in the hills. Lets coordinate a scouting trip to your house with a couple people from the mesh team.<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Steve Berl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steveberl@gmail.com" target="_blank">steveberl@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Not really sure if this is useful or not, but I'd be willing to donate a spot on my roof for an antenna. I'm part way up the hills, and have a line of sight view of Lake Merritt, chunks of downtown, and a wide swath of the flats of Oakland, Emeryville, and Berkeley. Not sure if I can see the sudoroom, as it is probably obscured by some taller buildings between here and there.<div>
<br></div><div><a href="http://goo.gl/maps/bGpNk" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/maps/bGpNk</a></div><div><br></div><div>Is this useful? Perhaps as a relay between different neighborhoods or something?</div><div><br></div>
<div>-steve</div><div><br><div><div><div><div>On Jun 17, 2013, at 11:02 AM, Miguel Vargas <<a href="mailto:unroar@gmail.com" target="_blank">unroar@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br></div></div><blockquote type="cite">
<div><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Reading that description I'd say our mesh network project at sudoroom is probably farther along than what he's offering for giving help, though it would still be great to get his help. We recently purchased 100 routers and our putting together plans for doing outreach in a neighborhood, which is probably going to be San Antonio in Fruitvale.<br>
<br></div>If anybody is thinking of donating please consider giviving to our local project instead at <a href="https://www.wepay.com/donations/oakland-community-mesh-network" target="_blank">https://www.wepay.com/donations/oakland-community-mesh-network</a><br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Tony Barreca <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tony.barreca@gmail.com" target="_blank">tony.barreca@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">There's an active Mesh Network project in Oakland once again, the central locus of which is at Sudoroom.<div><div>
<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 3:05 AM, howard dyckoff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:howarddy@gmail.com" target="_blank">howarddy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Most of the Mesh network activity was previously confined to SF.</div><div> </div><div>I think there was some activity in North Oakland 2-3 years back. </div>
<div> </div><div>If I recall correctly, the cells have to be within half a mile or a third of a mile of each other.... pls verify, I'm sure the range has increased gradually.</div>
<div> </div><div>And I think the min cost of a local neighborhood transmitter and antennae was between $500 and $1000 a few years ago. I hope that pricing is better now.</div><div> </div><div>The problem, I think , is that the areas most in need of this have fewer and less successful neighborhood associations and fewer households that could afford to setup mesh nodes. </div>
<div> </div><div>That's unfortunate since this could provide really inexpensive internet access for everyone.</div><div> </div><div>I am sure "Business Improvement Districts" could be involved, but there are few of them operating in East and West Oakland. We'd need a big grant to cover those areas -- or a lot of neighborhood organizing. </div>
<div> </div><div>And we'd have to plan for some of the equipment being stolen. As an example, the new library at 81st Ave, where we held an event earlier this year, had many of its computers stolen a few weeks after it opened. </div>
<div> </div><div>But I don't want to be too negative here. I would definitely support this effort.</div><div> </div><div> </div></div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Eddie Tejeda <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eddie@codeforamerica.org" target="_blank">eddie@codeforamerica.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Hey everyone!</div><div><br></div><div>Checkout this cool project by Preston Rhea, from Open Technology Institute at the New America Foundation. He's thinking that Oakland will be one of the pilot cities. There are existing local mesh network projects in the area, right? People know how those projects are doing? This could be a collaborative opportunity.</div>
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<font>The project is to spread locally-managed community
wireless mesh networks around the country. I'll teach local
technologists and community organizers how to use regular Wi-Fi routers
and free, open source software to build their own community Internet
infrastructure.</font></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><br>The project will use <a href="http://commotionwireless.net/" target="_blank">Commotion</a>,
a free, open source software project designed to make it easy for
anyone to set up their own mesh network. We'll share tools and methods
for participatory technology pedagogy, and the routers that we set up
together will remain with the locals to seed their own mesh networks.
With these seeds spread, people in each city can continue to grow
locally-managed Internet networks and spur innovation on a shared
platform accessible to any resident.</blockquote></div><span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium;border-collapse:separate">
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