Hey y'all, I asked Brewster and Wendy about Disaster Radio comps for the
summit, got this back. If you're down to work cleanup on Thursday night,
holler back! (I have a ticket already, proceeds of backroom EFF deal.)
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Leez,
We'd love for Disaster Radio folks to attend!
We've extended comp tickets to a large group of Sudomesh folks including
Jenny Ryan in exchange for volunteer hours.
Have you talked to Jenny? Maybe many people in disaster radio are
already volunteering.
But here's the problem: every person who comes costs IA $585. That's
our break even per person. So we need enough people to pay to offset all
the free registrations, and right now, if I sell every single remaining
ticket. we will just break even.
There is one way we could work out a deal-- we need clean up help on
Thursday night from 9PM to 2 AM. That's right. It's a gruesome shift,
but we will all be there ourselves striking the Mint.
If your folks are willing to volunteer and really show up for that
shift, we can offer pure comp tix.
(In my experience, getting people to actually show up for that shift
takes a lot of arm-twisting, so you, Leez, would have to guarantee us
that you would make sure they actually came and volunteered Thursday night.)
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♥Ⓐ(ɔ) leez
GPG: https://leez.us/duolc/index.php/s/nCJQf0a4HVrktRY
We still have more soldering to do on the disaster radio nodes for the dweb
summit.
This time most of the soldering will be larger through-hole components so
it should be easier for less experienced solderers.
Join us at 7:30 pm tonight at sudo room!
or later.
There will be pizza and beer!
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marc/juul
We're having a hacknight this coming Tuesday to solder up ~50 dev boards to
be given away to interested developers at the decentralized web summit!
We have all but a few boards pre-populated with everything except the LoRa
radio modules, the SMA edge connector and pin headers.
If any of you have time to help out and any sort of experience with
soldering then we could really use your help! Even if you don't we'll need
help flashing and testing them.
There will be food and drinks :)
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marc/juul
We just got an email that disaster.radio is a finalist in the Mozilla
NSF/WINS challenge!
That means we'll have to do a 5 minute live demo in Mountain View on August
15th. This will be followed by 2-3 minutes of questions from the judges.
Audience size will be ~20 judges + ~80 others.
We don't know how many teams are finalists.
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marc/juul
Great! Yes let's do 7 pm :)
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 10:38 PM, Stephen Whitmore <sww(a)eight45.net> wrote:
> I'll be there! I've only done soldering once before, but I'd really
> appreciate
> the practice. 1900h?
>
> ~ noffle
>
>
> On 07/18 14:23, Marc Juul wrote:
> > We're having a hacknight this coming Tuesday to solder up ~50 dev boards
> to
> > be given away to interested developers at the decentralized web summit!
> >
> > We have all but a few boards pre-populated with everything except the
> LoRa
> > radio modules, the SMA edge connector and pin headers.
> >
> > If any of you have time to help out and any sort of experience with
> > soldering then we could really use your help! Even if you don't we'll
> need
> > help flashing and testing them.
> >
> > There will be food and drinks :)
> >
> > --
> > marc/juul
>
> > _______________________________________________
> > DisasterRadio mailing list
> > DisasterRadio(a)lists.sudoroom.org
> > https://sudoroom.org/lists/listinfo/disasterradio
>
>
Alright, the round 2 application has been submitted!
Thanks to everyone for their hard work on the hardware, software and
application :D
We'll be cleaning up the video and publishing a nicer version that we can
broadcast far and wide later this week :)
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marc/juul
Allo friends,
As you may or may not know, the deadline for Round 2 submissions is this
Friday!
A draft gDoc with the questions (which are much the same as Round 1) is
here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bp0CYUSzWEVt3xMusEQjQRvuCiciBsW6-gqYRw1…
I think DisasterRadio has a really good shot. Here's a look at the Round 1
winners (some of which I'm genuinely shocked won anything):
* Project Lantern <http://lantern.works/docs/apps.html> - first place - has
amazing design docs but no link to Github repo
<https://github.com/lantern-works> (which is very recently active, also
recently created, also only 1-2 contributers). might wanna incorporate some
of the kinds of things they show here eg; use cases and app previews
* HERMES <https://github.com/DigitalHERMES> - second place - Rhizomatica -
active codebase, could be a contender, certainly has an excellent team -
doesn't have a super open source feel (no link to Github on their homepage,
for example)
* Emergency LTE - 3rd place - can't find any website, code, specs, etc
* goTenna <https://imeshyou.com/> - honorable mention - has an impressive
map, but nothing about the project is open source
* Wind <https://guardianproject.info/wind/> - honorable mention - project
by Guardian Project - no Github activity in months
* RAVE <https://github.com/commotionwireless/rave> - honorable mention -
project by Commotion - Github has nothing in it and last commit was in
November
* Baculus <https://xn--f87c.net/> - honorable mention - still only a design
doc, same with the Github repo <https://github.com/jedahan/baculus> (and 1
contributer)
* Portable Cell Initiative
<https://github.com/Ironarcher/portable-cell-initiative> - honorable
mention - recent github activity but also 1 contributer
* Othernet <http://blog.othernet.xyz/index.php/Timeline> - they at least
have a wiki and a team :D looks interesting, tho not a whole lot of progress
<http://blog.othernet.xyz/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&days=30&from=>
they did use half the funds to train 4 high school students
<http://othernet.xyz/othernet-engineer/>
Butofcourse, there will be 35 other projects contending that were advanced
to Round 2...
Compare to our progress <https://disaster.radio/updates/> (excellent
updates juul!) most demonstrable by looking at the github history
<https://github.com/sudomesh/disaster-radio/commits/master>, as is the
actual-collaborative
<https://github.com/sudomesh/disaster-radio/graphs/contributors> nature of
the project :)
Could we document the working prototype this week? I am available to run
between, say Captain Morgan's and Omni with a camera... and do some editing
work on the submission (tho focus for me is more on the People's Open
submission). Could also edit a short video with the footage Marc's already
taken.
If anyone has the spoons to hack on this this week, plz reply to this
thread!
<3
Jenny
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Hi!
Just found out about this project, very exciting. I'd recommend that
developers consider attending the Decentralized Web Summit
<https://decentralizedweb.net/> that starts on July 31st. I believe that
folks that work on SSB will be present so might be a great opportunity to
collaborate.
I do know that there will be a humanitarian track; so again, this project
is a perfect fit.
Oh, and hi! I'm Paul. Sudo Room member lurker, Oakland resident and coder.
Happy to meet everyone
Paul
this might be the same thing Fitz already designed for the disaster radio
system, to manage solar charge and battery stuff, or maybe its design or
production could improve our situation, i don't know:
"Solar Power Manager 5V is a small power solar power management module designed
for 5V solar panel. It features as MPPT (Maximum Power Point Tracking)
function, maximizing the efficiency of the solar panel, suitable for various
solar power projects."
https://www.dfrobot.com/product-1712.html
