Hi meshers!
As you may already know, we received a donation of a 10 TB storage server
from the Novato Unified School District (!)
We'll soon write a proper thank you post and put them on our list of
sponsors.
For now, I wanted to announce that it was picked up in Novato with the help
of Pete, and over the past two days Daniel (who was the main force behind
making this donation happen) and myself have set up the storage server.
It's at sudo room for now and it's running GNU Mediagoblin. Until we find a
better spot for it, you can reach it at:
http://datasink.sudomesh.org:8000/
So far I've heard two suggestions for uses of this server:
* A community-curated library of free and open media.
* Encrypted storage for folks using the mesh.
Let's see how we like mediagoblin for the first use. Right now I've
installed plugins for: Video, audio, pdf, stl (3d models) and ascii art :)
Some specs:
* 2 dual-core 2 GHz Xeon processors
* 4 GB ram (and four more slots to fill)
* 2x 160 GB sata drives in raid 1 for operating system
* 10x 1 TB sata drives in raid 5 for storage
* 15 total hot-pluggable harddrive slots
* Debian 7
We could likely fit a few more sata drives inside, if we're ok with them
not being hot-pluggable. If we filled it with 3 TB drives, then we could
probably upgrade it to about 55 TB for about $2000 worth of drives.
I also set up a phpbb support forum. The idea is that the stickers that go
on the power supply will list the address h.sudomesh.org and that url will
take them to a page (that doesn't yet exist) that links to user
documentation, node operators documentation, developer documentation and a
support forum. For now there is just the support forum at:
http://h.sudomesh.org
aliases are: help.sudomesh.org and support.sudomesh.org
I was tweaking the phpbb theme and was planning on switching the color
scheme to something more in line with the sudo mesh colors (and maybe
remove the jagged edges), but ran out of steam.
More work to be don!
Mesh The Planet!
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marc/juul
Hi!
If anyone here cares about privacy. :-)
Mitar
-------- Original Message --------
Data Privacy Legal Hack-A-thon
This is an unprecedented year documenting our loss of Privacy. Never
before have we needed to stand up and team up to do something about it.
In honour of Privacy Day, the Legal Hackers are leading the charge to do
something about it, inspiring a two-day international Data Privacy Legal
Hackathon.
This is no ordinary event. Instead of talking about creating privacy
tools in theory, the Data Privacy Legal Hackathon is about action! A
call to action for tech & legal innovators who want to make a difference!
Across three locations on February 8th & 9th, 2014
* New York City * London, UK
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/data-privacy-london-legal-hack-a-thon-ticket…>*
Bay Area *
http://legalhackers.org/privacyhack2014/
This two-day event aims to mix the tech and legal scenes with people and
companies that want to champion personal data privacy. Connecting
entrepreneurs, developers, product makers, legal scholars, lawyers, and
investors.
Each location will host a two-day judged hacking competition with a
prize awarding finale, followed by an after-party to celebrate the event.
The Main Themes to The Hackathon Are:
*
Crossing the Pond Hack
*
Do Not Track Hack
*
Anti-Surveillance & Transparency Hacks
*
Privacy Policy Hack
*
Revenge Porn Hack
There are pre-hackathon projects and activities
*
Join the Hackerleague
<https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/data-privacy-legal-hackathon>
*
A Consent Legal Map & Schema Project
<https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/data-privacy-legal-hackathon/hacks/…>to
create a legal map of the consent laws as a legal hackers tool for
the event and projects posted at the event (many volunteers needed)
*
Brainstorming List of Hacks
<http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/DP-HACK-Brainstorm>- Add your ideas
*
Share Tech and Links
<http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/DP-Hack;_Technology_Sharing_Page>Page
- Share your Knowledge
*
Hacks
<https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/data-privacy-legal-hackathon/hacks>(Project)
Page - Propose or Join a project
*
IRC Channel for
Discussion<http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23legalhack&>
<http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23legalhack&>
Sponsorship Is Available & Needed
Any organization or company seeking to show active support for data
privacy and privacy technologies is invited to get involved.
*
Sponsor: prizes, food and event costs by becoming a Platinum, Gold
or Silver Sponsor
*
Participate: at the event by leading or joining a hack project
*
Mentor: projects or topics that arise for teams, and share your
expertise.
Contact NYC sponsorship: Phil Weiss email or @philwdjjd
Contact Bay Area sponsorship: Mary Hodder - Hodder (at) gmail (dot)
com - Phone: 510 701 1975
Contact London sponsorship: Mark Lizar - Mark (dot) Lizar
(at)gmail (dot) com - Phone: +44 02081237426 - @smarthart
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http://mitar.tnode.com/https://twitter.com/mitar_m
Hi!
Very interesting:
https://apollo.open-resource.org/lab:argus
"This is an early draft proposal for a solid, modular and distributed
communication/monitoring system shared and operated by communities (not
everyone needs his own equipment in a neighboring area). It will offer
services locally for community members and the nodes should be
interconnected worldwide to create a global network of free-to-access
Communication- & Monitoring-Nodes (CMN)."
And a plea:
"If anyone has the datasheets and could share some insight on the
AR9330's antenna configuration, to enable the 2nd antenna for
MIMO/Diversity, please drop a note."
Mitar
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http://mitar.tnode.com/https://twitter.com/mitar_m
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Awesome donations for the mesh today! Thanks to J Rad for the cable
and the generous cash donation, and to Daniel and Novato School
District for the server!
Notes reposted for posterity at
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/16_January_2014
=Attendees=
*Jenny, Marc, Jeremy, Daniel, Matt, MaxB, Angelica, Mitar
=Updates=
*We now have a ~18 TB server! Thanks to Novato Unified School District
for the donation and Daniel for coordinating! RAD@!
*J Rad dropped off 1000ft of outdoor ethernet cable and $600! :o
*Marc is building a spectrum analyst machine from an OLPC + an
omnidirectional Bullet, a GPS, and portable power supply -
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/
*Marc solved the MTU issue! (rearranged the layers :)
*Daniel spoke with a landlord who's interested in supporting the project.
*Jeremy spoke at SF New Tech on Monday! We should hack more startup
events!
*Marc's been testing the cheap TP-Link routers and made a firmware
image (minimal OpenWRT) that's a tarball that can be unzipped right
onto the router. Unfortunately, the cheapest ones are not approved by
the FCC. However, he found a bunch of better routers (eg; Western
Digital) for around $27 (plus a USB stick would be ~$35)
*Jenny presented the mesh at the Mass Effect event last Friday:
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mass_effect
*Upcoming EFF event in Berkeley (including Daniel Ellsberg) on Jan.
23:
https://www.eff.org/event/nsa-surveillance-and-our-almost-orwellian-state
*Mitar and friends code-sprinted on nodewatcher! -
https://github.com/wlanslovenija/nodewatcher
*Angelica's going to do music for the videos \o/
=ToDos=
*Coordinate server pickup with Pete (Jenny)
*Make or procure antennae for the 5GHz nodes (Marc / Jake / Deekoo)
*Coordinate with the Meraki guy (Daniel & Juul)
*Connect to Angelica's friend who owns real estate in East Oakland
(Angelica/Jenny)
*Ironing out the last bugs in the firmware! (Marc / Max)
*Sync with Ralf from Internet Archive (Jenny)
*Poke Liberty until we receive real estate contact (Jenny)
=Notes=
*As router resellers, we'd be responsible for replacing them when they
break.
*Computer Networks Coursera course study group Thursdays at 6pm before
mesh!
=Gratuitous Link Dump=
*https://github.com/richo/groundstation - Project used by Byzantium
folks. From The Doctor: "It is a distributed Twitter work-alike that
uses Git for its back-end and a lightweight gossip protocol to
synchronize other instances on the network. It presents a regular
HTTP front end (which is easily proxyable through Apache to add
SSL/TLS for data-in-motion protection) and does not require that users
create accounts to use it. Communication channels are set up on the
server side, and users can interact with (read, post, comment) with
them from the client side."
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Jenny
http://jennyryan.nethttp://sudomesh.orghttp://thevirtualcampfire.orghttp://technomadic.tumblr.com
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"Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories."
- -Laurie Anderson
"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining
it."
-Hannah Arendt
"To define is to kill. To suggest is to create."
- -Stéphane Mallarmé
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Pete and myself Installed a nanostation m5 on a 20 foot aluminum flagpole in west oakland. The node is about 14 feet above the roof of a two-story building. The total cost of this install ran to about $145 including all materials.
Bill of Materials:
* One nanostation m5 loco
* One 4 foot wood beam of 3.5" by 3.5"
* Three 5" by 1/4" bolts
* Three 5/8" washers for bolts (optional)
* Three 1/2" washers for bolts (optional)
* Two 5" hose clamps
* 30+ feet of outdoor shielded ethernet cable
* Two shielded/groundable ethernet plugs
* A bunch of zip ties
The optional washers make it easier to tighten and untighten the bolts (otherwise they dig into the wood).
Material sources:
* Nanostation from Amazon
* Flag pole from habor freight
* Everything else from home depot
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marc/juul
They had 60 seconds at the end of the night to pitch an idea. I wasn't very
prepared but I mentioned the People's Open Network. The whole stream is
available online. ustre.am/UknO <http://t.co/K4lwq0YEos> There's a feed on
twitter too (#sfnt), I'll apply and see if we can get a full segment there.
