mesh September 2015

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Mailing list to coordinate responses to FCC ruling on router hacking

by Jenny Ryan

In case it slipped through the radar, please join the conversation and send an email to the FCC by August 16th re: new regulations preventing channel-switching and firmware flashing (eg OpenWRT) on wireless routers. * Mailing List: http://lists.prplfoundation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fcc * Public comments form: http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/proceeding/view?name=15-170 * The talk from BattleMesh: http://www.cnx-software.com/2015/08/07/openwrt-vs-fcc-forced-firmware-lockd… * Current filings: … [View More]

9 years, 2 months

ESP8266 crash course

by Morgan Allen

For hardware hack night tonight I will be bringing some of these new fangled ESP8266 boards, you may have heard of them. https://hackaday.com/tag/esp8266/ *Why are these things so cool?* Welp, they're a 80mhz CPU, with at least 512k flash memory, built in Wifi, are flashed with a serial connection and they cost about $4-5. For the last week I've been working on sudo-clock ( http://github.com/morganrallen/sudo-clock) with the ESP8266 at its core. Robb was surprised to find out that not only … [View More]

9 years, 7 months

Richmond tower update

by Paige Peterson

Hi all - an update to mention I'm reconnecting with Richmond based non-profit Building Blocks for Kids to discuss best ways to integrate People's Open Network with the community out here. Per our discussions a few weeks ago, the plan is to show Ralph from Internet Archive that SudoMesh is worth collaborating with so he will open up access to their free wifi tower to spread via mesh instead of limiting it to just the few repeaters they have set up already. My goals will be to: -find out where … [View More]

9 years, 7 months

2nd Annual Board Mtg Minutes

by Jenny Ryan

Recorded for posterity at: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/15_September_2015 ChrisJ & MaxB, we re-elected you to the board. Let me know if you'd like to be removed! Welcome Pete and Arlo to the sudomesh BoD! *sudo mesh annual board meeting, 15 sep 2015* We are meeting in La Commune! =Attendees= * Jenny, Pete, Jeremy, Jake, Marc, Matt * Came late: Mitar and his friend Jake =Discussion= * Pete: You can be a sharer or a recipient of sharing * Pete: Fundamentally about being in a … [View More]participatory community * Pete: Did you ever try to set up a tin can phone as a friend? [image overlay of tin can phone lines across oakland] * Jenny shows Pete our video. He digs it. J suggests we could do more videos, short 30-second/1-minute 'PSA' style clips tailored to different audiences * Jeremy: Would like to do more presentations at schools to recruit more young coders. Anyone else interested in co-presenting? * Pete's neighbor found the peoplesopen network and cancelled his service :D looked up the project and was stoked, contacted pete offering to share the costs =Proposals= ==New Board of Directors== * Remove: Lilia, Luis * Re-elected: Jenny, Marc, Jeremy, Jake, Matt, ChrisJ, MaxB * New Directors: Pete, Arlo Consenso: 5/5 ==Becoming a fiscally-sponsored project of the Omni== * Could help Omni achieve 33% charitable income as required of a 501c3 * Sudo Room might achieve 501c3 status more quickly * Jenny's also filled out most of our 501c3 nonprofit application if we'd like to go that rought * Proposal: Delegate this task to Jenny Consenso: 5/5 ==Election of Officers== * President: Jenny Ryan * Secretary: Pete Forsyth * Treasurer: Marc Juul Consenso: 5/5 =Post-meeting discussion on events we'd like to organize= * BACH Unconference - Bay Area Consortium of Hackerspaces 3rd annual Unconference. Visit http://ba.chgrp.org/ to learn more and join the mailing list if you'd like to participate! * Hackmeet - Matt has the domain hackmeet.net - Interested in hosting european-style 'hackmeets' to work on building solutions to tangible real-world problems, hacktivism * Open Alternatives conference - 18-21 March 2016 ** Paige and Jenny have been discussing organizing a 'decentralized tech' conference ** Marc is interested in expanding the scope to 'Open Alternatives' and inviting participation from Counter Culture Labs and other groups & projects working on open technologies and building alternatives to the current system ** Battlemesh track over the week ** Distributed / decentralizing tech track ** Biosensors track ** Failcon - sharing stories of failure in community organizing ** 50% maximum techies ** Overlap of technical and nontechnical tracks ** Block party / Creating Commons-style *** Phat Beets is interested in helping * Name ideas: Creating Commons, Creating Alternatives, Decentralized Alternatives, Forging a Commons, Growing a Commons, Collective Liberation, Collective Conference, Flock Together, The Humans Conference, Open Alternatives -- Jenny Help open a people-powered common space in Oakland, California! https://omnicommons.org/donate `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "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 ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` [View Less]

9 years, 8 months

Annual Sudo Mesh Board Meeting: September 15th, 7:30pm

by Jenny Ryan

I won't bore you with the bureaucratic details and the imminent necessity of filing for tax-exempt status so we don't have to pay #1K+ in business taxes, but we need to have a 2015 board meeting. As a reminder, the following are those who are on our Board of Directors: * MaxB * ChrisJ * Marc * Jenny * Matt * Jeremy * Luis * Jake * Lilia If you wish to be removed from the board, or you would like to be on the board, please reply to this thread. Let me know if you can make it in person or … [View More]

9 years, 8 months

Fwd: Re: [sudo-info] my new diy platform

by eric maundu

more inline comments on spec's. On Sep 13, 2015 3:55 PM, "danarauz(a)gmail.com <mailto:danarauz@gmail.com>" <danarauz(a)gmail.com <mailto:danarauz@gmail.com>> wrote: i almost forgot to add the sudo discuss and mesh email lists. thx! d. On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 3:51 PM, danarauz(a)gmail.com <mailto:danarauz@gmail.com> <danarauz(a)gmail.com <mailto:danarauz@gmail.com>> wrote: Hello Eric, Thanks for reaching out … [View More]with the donation. I imagine some Sudoers may be interested. It sounds like a good idea for hands on teaching tool. If you don't mind, can you please let us know the following: 0- How many servers are they? >>enough 1- Can you please provide the Servers' hardware configuration (Brand, Model, CPU, RAM)? >>dell 2- Do the Servers include their rails? >>the rack ... i can't recall where i put the rails (but everything sits on top of one another) 3- What kind of rack type is it 2 or 4 post? Threaded or square >>the kind for servers 4- Hard disks: --Speed: 5400RPM? 7200RPM? 15000RPM? --Size: 3.5? 2.5? --Type: IDEE? SATA? SSD? etc. i>> don't even know what this is ... but the configuration offers a high availability, fault tolerance, parallel access and raw data access Many thanks in advance! Daniel On 9/13/15 2:04 AM, eric maundu wrote: > hey guys, > hope well. > i still need to come and do a presentation on how i think is > the best way to do supervisory control. > in the mean time. > i have a server rack i think i want to donate to you guys as i > don't seem to be using it ... its a full rack with a bunch of > 1u and 2u servers, switches, and tons of hard drives. > this is fun for folks trying to learn hardcore linux ... as > well as backups etc. > let me know if you all are interested. > thanks, > -m > > > On 01/14/2015 04:07 AM, Marc Juul wrote: >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 3:05 AM, eric maundu >> <emaundu(a)kijanigrows.com <mailto:emaundu@kijanigrows.com>> wrote: >> >> http://www.kijanigrows.com/topics/v2-smart-controller/ >> presented twice with make:sf in oakland and techshop >> http://www.meetup.com/makesf/events/219404155/ >> presenting shortly with counter culture >> >> it is an open platform i built that comes with open tools >> that i am working on. >> i don't specifically have any licenses yet if this is >> your question >> >> it is the same platform i use to teach diy IoT classes >> with - only with a focus on programming as compared to >> electronics in the v1 series >> >> >> Looks cool! You can request an event at The Omni (our new >> location) here: >> >> https://omnicommons.org/occupy/ >> >> And you can email the sudo room mailing list when you have >> the date and time: >> >> https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss >> >> -- >> marc/juul > > > > _______________________________________________ > Info mailing list > Info(a)lists.sudoroom.org <mailto:Info@lists.sudoroom.org> > https://sudoroom.org/lists/listinfo/info -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Help open a people-powered common space in Oakland, California! https://omnicommons.org/donate - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [View Less]

9 years, 8 months

no sudomesh meeting this week? (there's a board meeting instead)

by Romy Ilano

i'm assuming there's no sudomesh meeting this week right? it's only for the board? ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com

9 years, 8 months

Greetings from Bolivia

by Sergio Guillen Mantilla

Hello friends of Sudoroom, I am Sergio one member of the hacklab r00tHouse from Bolivia. I send you this mail to comment you that we started working on a project that is a mesh network. We want to make a network that communicates our city (it is not a big city) and we started working on it. We decided to use Batman-adv as the routing protocol and OpenWRT and some weeks ago looking for some documentation we found your wiki and looked that you decided to stop using Batman-adv because of some … [View More]

9 years, 8 months

Re: [Mesh] [sudo-info] my new diy platform

by danarauz＠gmail.com

i almost forgot to add the sudo discuss and mesh email lists. thx! d. On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 3:51 PM, danarauz(a)gmail.com <danarauz(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Eric, > > Thanks for reaching out with the donation. > > I imagine some Sudoers may be interested. > It sounds like a good idea for hands on teaching tool. > > If you don't mind, can you please let us know the following: > 0- How many servers are they? > 1- Can you please provide the Servers' … [View More]hardware configuration (Brand, > Model, CPU, RAM)? > 2- Do the Servers include their rails? > 3- What kind of rack type is it 2 or 4 post? Threaded or square > 4- Hard disks: --Speed: 5400RPM? 7200RPM? 15000RPM? --Size: 3.5? 2.5? > --Type: IDEE? SATA? SSD? etc. > > Many thanks in advance! > > Daniel > > > On 9/13/15 2:04 AM, eric maundu wrote: > > hey guys, > hope well. > i still need to come and do a presentation on how i think is the best way > to do supervisory control. > in the mean time. > i have a server rack i think i want to donate to you guys as i don't seem > to be using it ... its a full rack with a bunch of 1u and 2u servers, > switches, and tons of hard drives. > this is fun for folks trying to learn hardcore linux ... as well as > backups etc. > let me know if you all are interested. > thanks, > -m > > > On 01/14/2015 04:07 AM, Marc Juul wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 3:05 AM, eric maundu <emaundu(a)kijanigrows.com> > wrote: > >> http://www.kijanigrows.com/topics/v2-smart-controller/ >> presented twice with make:sf in oakland and techshop >> http://www.meetup.com/makesf/events/219404155/ >> presenting shortly with counter culture >> >> it is an open platform i built that comes with open tools that i am >> working on. >> i don't specifically have any licenses yet if this is your question >> >> it is the same platform i use to teach diy IoT classes with - only with a >> focus on programming as compared to electronics in the v1 series >> > > Looks cool! You can request an event at The Omni (our new location) here: > > https://omnicommons.org/occupy/ > > And you can email the sudo room mailing list when you have the date and > time: > > https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss > > -- > marc/juul > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Info mailing listInfo@lists.sudoroom.orghttps://sudoroom.org/lists/listinfo/info > > > -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Help open a people-powered common space in Oakland, California! https://omnicommons.org/donate - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [View Less]

9 years, 8 months

Meeting notes from 9/8 & 9/1!

by Jenny Ryan

Last week's monthly organizing meeting notes are here: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/01_September_2015 This week's weekly organizing meeting notes recorded for posterity at: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/08_September_2015 sudo mesh weekly organizing meeting, 8 sep 2015 =attendees= * juul - developer * jehan - wants to learn more about the practical * maxb - We've been eating the dogfood and it's been tasting pretty good: http://192.241.217.196/cacti/graph_view.php?action=tree&tree_id=1… [View More]&leaf_id=45 * siavash - saw it on the calendar, background in telecommunications, gsm, transmission related, worked with ericsson in iraq/iran * captain morgan - programmer, likes linux, has a node at his house * jenny - really happy to not have any responsibilities to do with anything else in the building tonight, working on community stuff, outreach and documentation * mo bala =battlemesh report-back= * https://sudoroom.org/weaving-together-a-network-of-networks-report-from-bat… * video of talks coming online here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxfh-2aOR5hZUjxJLQ2CIHw Ryan, Paige and Jenny did a bunch of interviews with representatives of as many community networks as they could find. Their goal was to get the origin story of each of the networks, Challenges that they faced and advice for people who were just starting a network. Musti has helped create a hackerspace in Maribor called KreatorLab and is focusing on creating a set of standards for documenting open hardware. There's a guy called Dave Taht in Los Gatos who works with the IETF who works on standards for the internet. He developed a bunch of the bufferbloat stuff in cerowrt. Jenny recommends his presentations. =Networking Simulation= If someone wants to implement a babeld implementation for ns3 (network simulator): https://www.nsnam.org/docs/release/3.23/doxygen/modules.html =where did our stuff go? (theft)= * Bunch of PoE injectors, ethernet cables, and hard drives taken by this guy named 'Manny' or Manual who will say he has an agreement with Jake to take our e-waste =community outreach & communications= * Jehan made a diagram to help developers get oriented * Need to update Nic's brochure and print a bunch * Would be rad to design something like 'Open Wifi by People's Open Network' - window stickers for houses, laser-cut signs for public areas like community gardens =update on fcc ruling= * Do peruse http://savewifi.org ! * Folks on the mailing list are putting together a Comment template that will be pushed by the EFF ** Join the list: http://lists.prplfoundation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fcc * Comment deadline is Oct. 9th. Would be good to post something as sudomesh / People's Open Network. Marc started something here: https://pad.riseup.net/p/fccthing =bureaucracy situation= * We're filing a 3500 CA nonprofit tax exemption form to demonstrate we shouldn't pay taxes * Also our annual Statement of Information is due November. Jenny finished it but we still need to pay the $20 fee. =action items= * Set up beta node at LiveLabs & test accessibility of documentation [jenny] * Pay Statement of Information fee [Jenny/Marc] * Send 3500 form [Jenny] * Send svg of developer orientation packet or upload to website [Jehan] * Configure and mount the remainder of omni's routers [Marc/Morgan] -- Cheers, Jenny Help open a people-powered common space in Oakland, California! https://omnicommons.org/donate `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "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 ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` [View Less]

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