Friends,
Friday will be my last day in the Omni for an indefinite period of time
while I address a couple of personal issues that are bound up with my
increasingly problematic behavior, aggression, stress, anxiety,
interpersonal conflicts, and burnout.
I realize that I take my leave at a critical juncture, and intend to
continue remotely helping with the following:
* Building/Finance bookkeeping
* Ethnographic research of other commons-based projects
* Legal entity research and fundraising work
* Several of Omni's IndieGoGo perks
* Brainstorming on a new booking/calendar system
* Procuring necessary documents from David Keenan and organizing them at
htps://omnicommons.org/cloud
* Visioning (I believe my distance will enable a more coherent perspective
to contribute to these important conversations)
* Followup and resolution of all outstanding working group action items
(primarily for Commons, Building, Fundraising aka 'Until the Revolution',
and Finance).
* sudo mesh <https://sudomesh.org> documentation, finances, regular email
updates, organizing node mounts and public outreach (i realize i've been
dropping the ball on this but would like to shift my focus back to other
projects dear to my heart)
Things I've been responsible for that others will need to step up to help
with include:
* Paying sudo's rent / utilities / insurance bills,
* Finance updates at weekly sudo meetings,
* Acting as an Omni delegate for sudo room,
** Omni proposals and announcements at sudo room meetings,
* Regular Costco runs for general Omni supplies such as toilet paper, dish
soap, etc;
* Purchasing materials for building-related projects,
* Helping with many events renting space
<https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Booking_System> at the Omni,
* Maintaining the ever-buggy Omni calendar
<https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Calendar_System>,
* Co-facilitating monthly Open Circle meetups
<https://omnicommons.org/connect> with Antoinette, supporting families of
victims of police violence,
* Weekly front door shifts (Thursdays 2-6pm) and pestering Omninoms to
volunteer to be a front door greeter,
* Documenting working group meeting minutes on the wiki and general wiki
maintenance,
* Various communications and relationships I intend to hand off to the
appropriate people,
* Organizing work parties for Building projects,
* Creating a direct point of contact with neighbors around the Omni,
* Figurehead role of Secretary of the Board of the Omni Commons and Board
Member on behalf of sudo room.
Things I've already dropped the ball on:
* Proper onboarding of new sudoroom members
* Monthly Cryptoparties <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Cryptoparty> (Third
Sundays in sudo)
* Facilitating the Welcoming working group
<https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Welcoming_Committee>
* Facilitating the Communications working group
<https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Communications_Working_Group>
I love you all very much. Please know that I'm not doing this out of spite
but rather out of love for this project, this community, and myself. I
apologize to anyone I've hurt over the course of this project and hope to
recontinue building and dreaming with you all once I've healed myself and
risen to a better place than where I've been.
I will be at the community meeting tomorrow evening to discuss the
Fundraising WG's proposals for moving forward to buy the building, and
Friday evening to help out with the Digital Detox event that will be
utilizing much of the building. I will be travelling in Europe and visiting
my family for the entirety of August. Please get in touch directly if you'd
like to talk about anything.
With love and solidarity forever,
Jenny
Help open a people-powered common space in Oakland, California!
https://omnicommons.org/donate
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At Omni we're using TP-Link dual-band home routers (N750) and modifying
them for PoE.
These routers have gigabit ethernet.
Unfortunately gigabit ethernet and PoE at the same requires special
ethernet transformers and these routers don't have that type of transformer.
This means that they drop to 100 mbit when we modify them for PoE (but only
on the port we modify).
I was looking into how to get around this problem.
I thought maybe there was a way to do gigabit half-duplex on two or three
pairs, but it seems like that's not possible.
BUT! It looks like TP-Link makes a PoE splitter which can apparently handle
gigabit:
The TL-POE10R
Here it is for $12:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/TP-LINK-TL-POE10R-Gigabit-PoE-Splitter-Adapter-IEEE…
I ordered one so we can try it out. If it works we should just do that to
all of the routers. No reason not to have gigabit if it's only $12 extra
per router. It's still only $77 total for router + PoE splitter.
oh and btw, someone is selling dirt cheap Ubiquiti Unifi UAP devices:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Ubiquiti-UniFi-UAP-802-11n-300-Mbps-Wireless-Ac…
Caution: They are 2.4 GHz only.
I ordered one for the mesh, just so we have it to test our firmware on.
--
marc/juul
Have you folks seen the Tessel 2.0?
substack just informed me that the new one is no longer using the weird lua
node thing.
Instead it's actually wifi router hardware running OpenWRT with an ARM
build of node.js
We should pre-order one and build think about making a simple node.js sudo
mesh module that makes it super easy to run a node.js app on the mesh from
a tessel device
It would be pretty easy to make it possible to do:
npm install -g pplsopen
# configure peoplesopen.net adhoc wifi, grab static IP from
meshnode-database and set up babel
pplsopen wifi enable
# same but on ethernet
pplsopen ethernet enable
Definitely a side-project, but could be pretty easy depending on how
standard their OpenWRT install is.
--
marc/juul
Just a reminder that tonight is our weekly mesh hacknight!
I'll be there, caffeinated and hopefully finalizing the extender-node
system!
We still need someone to finalize our new web UI and package it as a
sudowrt package, if anyone wants to take this on!
--
marc/juul
Hey so is anyone planning on being at sudo this Sunday? There are probably
some things we can do, though it will depend a bit on whether Will will be
thre or not.
I went to the ham store, but they definitely didn't have any affordable
mounts that fit our purposes. That being said, I actually think it'd be
pretty trivial to make a mount ourselves with a bit of angle iron and a few
bolts. I don't imagine we'll have the time this Sunday to do that, but if
anyone were to be excited about it, some group could go in that direction.
There is plenty of cabling and setting up routers to do, though. Who's
coming with me....?
any ideas what this is about?
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Hi all,
i have a 90-foot antenna tower in my driveway for sudomesh. It's a telescoping
tower like this:
http://alumatower.com/towers-telescoping-mast-systems/telescopic-antenna-to…
but it's NOT aluminum, it's old-fashioned steel. It has one place it needs
welding, but my neighbor offered to fix that. it extends to 90 feet total
(which means you need the guy wires in a 108' diameter circle if you extend it
to the full 90' height, according to the 60% rule)
anyway, i paid $100 for it and Marc paid $45 in gasoline to get it, and i'm
willing to sell it to sudomesh at ZZZERO PROFIT, but it has to move somewhere
else. I may be able to help move it (although i would have to borrow
neighbors' truck)
collapsed down, it's about 23' long and weighs like 250 lbs i think.
if sudomesh is not interested i'm going to put it on craigslist.
thank you!
-jake
Thanks Yar!
So I have some ideas about Sunday, but I haven't really decided on anything
yet. Here they are in more or less random order:
- Meet at Sudoroom, I show whoever is there how to flash our newest
firmware, run makenode and create a mesh node. Depending on time and how
many folks show up, we could also set up extender access points or extender
node->node radios and perhaps set up a 5ghz extender node link in the omni.
I would probably trust these folks to take those mesh nodes home with them
as I think the new rule is starting to shape up as: "if you can flash and
configure a node yourself, you can take it home and be part of the alpha
release".
- We try to get on the roof of the omni and build a connection to Will's
house. I don't really know much about the roof status, so I'd be hesitant
to go this direction unless someone else was there who was comfortable with
the roof situation. This would also require us to have the proper mounting
materials and figure out the correct mounting technique and locations for
the roof. We DO have a nanostation m5 which would be a good match for
Will's nanobridge and we could also set up a nanostation m2 which would be
an access point broadcasting internet signal to the neighborhood.
- Folks come to my house and help me set up an extender node. I have a
mynet setup in my house and nanostation m2 which I'd like to broadcast to
the neighborhood, but the mounting situation is a tiny bit tricky. Ideally
we'd have a ladder as well as some sort of materials/techniques for
following my comcast cable line back through the wall out of the house and
to the roof (so probably just those wall brackets as well as whatever it
takes to get through the wall). If we were feeling particularly ambitious,
we could set up an extender node which would face south and *perhaps* be
able to see Alex.
Just some thoughts. If no one else shows I'll probably just be hacking on
some firmware tweaks and/or setting up a mesh service at my house. Also -
send an email to the list if you want to show up. I likely won't be at
sudoroom unless I know that someone else will be there as well.
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 8:01 PM, yar <yardenack(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> This message got sent during server migration and lost in limbo. Here it
> is.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Will Martin <will(a)willmartin.com>
> Date: Thu, May 14, 2015 at 4:17 PM
> Subject: Sunday Node Mounting
> To: "mesh(a)lists.sudoroom.org" <mesh(a)lists.sudoroom.org>
>
>
> I'm free this sunday and would love to help mount some nodes.
>
> My Nanobridge NB-5G25 dish is up-and-running and facing the Omni - I'd
> like to get it set up as a backbone so I can begin adding 2.4ghz nodes
> in my neighborhood.
> Do we have any 5G dishes on top of the Omni yet?
>
> Will Martin
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> Please don't do anything important until the DNS finishes propagating.
> Avoid any important mailing list messages, wiki edits, blog posts,
> etc. I will send an update when we're done. Thanks!
Ok, all should be well now. If you have any trouble please email
sudo-sys(a)lists.sudoroom.org. Thanks!
