>
>
> Will be there with car at 11.
Bringing some snacks, some markers, some Fortran printout paper :)
I will be at store just before & will look for paper easel pad things.
Had trouble filling Pad using phone.
See you soon!
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 11:40 PM, Marc Juul <juul(a)labitat.dk
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> > If you are helping run the mesh workshop, please sign up for stations /
> > check to make sure you're listed:
> >
> > https://pad.riseup.net/p/byoi
> >
> > If you can, please come in on Saturday at 11 am to help set up. We'll
> > likely find out we forgot something so besides setup we'll need people to
> > run to home depot / grocery store.
> >
>
If you are helping run the mesh workshop, please sign up for stations /
check to make sure you're listed:
https://pad.riseup.net/p/byoi
If you can, please come in on Saturday at 11 am to help set up. We'll
likely find out we forgot something so besides setup we'll need people to
run to home depot / grocery store.
We need large sheets of paper and huge markers to make signs for the
different stations. Is that something anyone has lying around or can bring?
--
marc/juul
Greetings,
The Peoples Open Network is hosting a skillshare / workshop this Saturday,
March 18, from 1-4pm at the Omni Commons (home of the Sudo Room
hackerspace), and we'd love for you to join us!
>From the event page
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/build-your-own-internet-workshop-tickets-32460…>
(plz rsvp so we know how many folks to expect!):
Do you think internet should be a public commons rather than a corporate
monopoly?
Come over to Omni Commons to learn about the history of the internet, how
it works, and how to build your own. Meet and mingle with civic hackers and
organizers behind peoplesopen.net: an open, community-based, network in the
East Bay.
Agenda:
1:00pm - Why/what/how of the internet (< 30 minutes)
1:30pm - Snack, mingle, share and experiment
2:00pm - Hands-on workshop with a variety of learning stations such as:
rooftop mounting techniques, ethernet cable-crimping, live node link
demoing radio propagation, q&a table & non-tech signup station for
neighborhood organizers
Donations for pizza and internet are enthusiastically accepted ; )
The Omni Commons' ballroom is wheelchair-accessible via a lift in the
Entrance Hall, where there is also located a wheelchair-accessible
single-stall bathroom.
The Peoples Open Network <https://peoplesopen.net> enables anyone to share
their Internet connection or extend signal from neighboring nodes. Learn
more at peoplesopen.net.
The Omni Commons <https://omnicommons.org> is a 100% volunteer-run space
for community organizing, collaboration, and creative production located in
North Oakland. Learn more at omnicommons.org.
*BYOI Workshop *
*Omni Commons - Ballroom*
*4799 Shattuck, Oakland, California*
*Saturday 18 March 2017 1-4pm*
*RSVP at
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/build-your-own-internet-workshop-tickets-32460…
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/build-your-own-internet-workshop-tickets-32460…>
!*
--
Jenny
Help open a people-powered common space in Oakland, California!
https://omnicommons.org/donate
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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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Hi everybody,
my name is Federico Capoano and I am a contributor of OpenWISP.org (a
software project aimed at making it easy to deploy and manage wifi
networks) and Ninux.org (an Italian wireless community). Some of you
have met me when I came to California in 2014 and at the battlemesh v8
in Slovenia.
I'm writing here to inform you that these projects are participating to
the Google Summer of Code 2017 and there are many opportunities for
university grade students to do paid work on open source software
related to mesh networking.
At these URLs you can find the proposed project ideas:
OpenWISP: http://openwisp.org/gsoc/ideas-2017.html
Ninux is participating with Freifunk, together with many other
organizations (Guifi, Wlan Slovenia, Libremesh, ecc.):
https://wiki.freifunk.net/Ideas
If you know any student that may be interested, let them know!
Thanks
Federico
I hope this is appropriate to post and of possible interest.
The Internet Society (I'm a member of the local chapter) offers various
online courses.
The latest is "Building Community Mesh Networks" :
http://inforum.internetsociety.org/LMS/Portal.aspx?tabindex=0
The course was developed by IEEE and ISOC.
Many of the course participants are IEEE SIGHT, IEEE Smart Village and HAM
radio folks.
It is an open course but requires an ISOC membership login (free =>
internetsociety.org)
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There's an online registration form with instructions.
The course is self directed but has a six week completion timeline.
Space is limited - sorry for late notice but I got a late start on it
myself.
I think after the course is over it will be kept online.
A friend of mine is involved in a project to provide low cost weather
forecasting and emergency communications in the Marshall Islands. He was
asking me about various ham radio protocols like AX.25 and it occurred to
me that a mesh network using WiFi radios might be a better solution that
could provide general Internet access for a similar or even lower cost.
The stations would need to be able to operate in remote. unattended
locations with only solar power. I am thinking that each island could have
one or more "central" sites with long distance links to one or two (or
more) other islands, and then a local network that would be used to
communicate locally on that island.
I'm still gathering more info about distances and elevations of the
islands, and whether line of site communications is possible.
Can anyone think of reasons why this would or would not be a good way to do
things?
--
-steve
