Hello mesh people!
The next Build Your Own Internet office hours* is tomorrow, Sunday April
22nd from 1pm to late afternoon in SudoRoom
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Directions>.
We’ll be doing a training about the proper use of ladders and other
safety-related things with Doug, an experienced contractor and fellow mesh
node owner.
Look forward to seeing y'all on tomorrow!
Mai
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** What are BYOI office hours? It serves two purposes:*
*1. A jumping off point for people interested helping with a scheduled
Sunday node mount, but who are not able to attend a Tuesday night meeting
or are not "in the know."*
*2. A friendly, non-confrontational time for new people to get oriented to
the project or just ask general questions about networking, the internet,
and their service provider.*
*We may also use the time to hold training sessions on a topic of choice,
conduct outreach to potential node locations, address finances and
purchasing, or tackle any other outstanding issues.*
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Finally got all the supplies in the mail for 2 repeaters! I'm going to
recover from jet lag tonight and will be in sudo wiring them up *Thursday
night* if anyone wants to help. I could use an esp2866 expert.
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From: Sameer Verma <sverma(a)sfsu.edu>
Date: Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 12:33 PM
Subject: [OLPC-SF] Community Summit = OpenHack 2018
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This year's event is a little different. We are joining forces with
some of the other projects in the Commons space at San Francisco State
University. This year's event is called Open Hack 2018.
The event is largely scheduled to run on Saturday (April 28) and
Sunday (April 29). Will have a meet-and-greet event on Friday evening
(April 27), but the main event will begin on Saturday (April 28).
The format is as follows:
1) What we typically refer to as "projects" are called "Challenges" in
this format. Anybody can Submit a Challenge. When submitting the
Challenge, you have to provide us with information about the Challenge
itself, existing resources, people involved, and the kinds of skills
that you may find helpful in completing this challenge. The goal is
that we would want to complete some degree of the Challenge by the
time we get to Sunday afternoon.
2) The Challenges will be printed and posted up on the wall starting
Friday (April 27). On Saturday morning (April 28), people who come in
will assign themselves to different challenges. It's quite common for
some of the challenges to not have any interested people. That's okay.
3) As we start to see a cluster of people collecting on a given
Challenge, we will allocate a room for them and then that room becomes
their space for the next day and a half. Unlike in the past, where we
had timed sessions (typically 75 minutes), these groups get to work on
their problem for the entire day Saturday and half day Sunday.
4) On Sunday afternoon, they present their progress and future
direction. The work (code, content, etc) will have to be made
available some place (a repo such as github) via a FOSS, or
CreativeCommons, or OpenData license.
5) After the presentations, a panel of judges will determine some form
of ranking. There may also be some token prizes.
This is somewhat different from what we've done in the past, but given
the level of maturity in our projects, and the amount of focus that is
needed to work on fixing bugs and building upon what we already have,
the hackathon approach seems to be more apt than simple presentations.
If you have somebody in mind who cannot be there physically, you can
always bring them in online. The rooms are fairly well equipped, with
whiteboards, projectors and Internet access. We are also in the
process of arranging for other operational logistics.
In the time being, take a look at the information, the code of
conduct, and submit a challenge. http://hackathon.sfsu.edu/
Registration is open. Register at
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/open-hack-sf-2018-san-
francisco-state-university-hackathon-tickets-45329250007
Also, let us know if you plan to attend, so we can look out for other
arrangements as well, as necessary.
Sameer Verma: sverma(a)sfsu.edu
Aaron Borden: adborrden(a)live.com
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Hey there,
This is your reminder to add any topics you'd like to be discussed at the People's Open Network meeting on Tues 24 April 2018, 7:30 - 9:00 PM PT.
>>> https://peoplesopen.net/notes (https://peoplesopen.net/notes)
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Here are the SudoMesh meeting minutes from Tues, 17 April 2018:
Viewable online here:
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/17_Apr_2018
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People's Open Network Weekly Meeting - 17 April 2018 7:30pm-9:15pm
* https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Safer_Space_Policy
=== Agenda ===
* Introductions and Meeting Roles (10 mins)
* Check in on previous action items (5 mins)
* Updates & Reportbacks (20 mins)
* Next Sunday (5 mins)
* Proposal: Accounting / Fundraising Working Group (15 mins)
* Discussion: Group decisionmaking / Establishing our relationship with the
Omni (15 min)
* Discussion: Equipment Purchasing Process (15 mins)
* Action Items (5 mins)
* Breakout Groups
=== Introductions ===
Introduce yourself: Name; Preferred Pronoun; Icebreaker Response; BRIEF
Announcements
* Icebreaker question: What is the best fast food place?
* Bengo: he/him, cheap falafel
* Doug: pizza, he'him
* Seth: In&Out Burger!
* Grant: falafel
* Jenny: she/her, In&Out
* Mai: she/her or they/them - In&Out or Chipotle
=== Meeting Roles ===
* Facilitator/s: Bengo
* Stacktaker: Bengo
* Notetaker/s: Jenny, all of us
** URL of this pad: https://peoplesopen.net/notes
* Next meeting's facilitator(s): TBD
== Check in on previous action items ==
* solar powered extender nodes?
** Ocean Max not present
* Talk to other wireless companies re: how they do general liability
insurance - jnny + ben
** ben - MonkeyBrains suggested we reach out to Detroit and Red Hook.
http://redhookwifi.org
*** Max or Jnny to reach out to Red Hook and/or insurer that Omni uses
*** Doug: look into medical insurance. trying to protect the organization
in general and the board specifically
*** Doug: in lieu of anything else, only people with their own health
insurance should be on the roof
* order items to order - jnny
** have ___ in the ebay cart. waiting on a few more specific budget
requests (ideally links) and then will place order
* open zeroconf tunneldigger issue - grant
** it's working! almost, now digs tunnel, but is having trouble babeling
with other nodes, they can see eachother, but is having trouble routing
over one ,
** issue number? or no issue? #129 sudowrt-firmware
** grant: next steps: make web portal have more admin features, eg
bandwidth percentage to share. nightly builds (set up a cron on my home
computer which is on the mesh) til we figure out Travis. Still trying to
figure out Travis. Ideas re: how we work on firmware and do releases, mebbe
a breakout session?
* get in touch with Reed Brothers - grant, will?
** grant: not done yet. contingent on paxio. me, will & jehan went on omni
roof on sunday to scout. pretty sure we can see paxio from western corner
of omni roof, but in-construction condo @ macarthur may eventually block.
best to talk w/ reed brothers anyways.
* be in touch with Paxio re: gigabit link - mai
** jehan and i touched base w/ storquest. they want money for roof rental.
should go w/ free options.
*** grant: storquest can see lotsa stuff, might be worth it eventually -
put a ton of antennas pointing in every direction mebbe
*** mai: really great how responsive paxio has been, just need to get our
equipment together
= Updates & Reportbacks ==
=== Bugs/Technical ===
Priority bugs we need help with are located at:
http://peoplesopen.net/helpwanted - For a high-level overview of recent
Github activity, see the Trello:
https://trello.com/invite/b/r9l5ouQ4/3b2eecd83bb9e7a57a339cf1ee038288/sudo-…
* Bug 27: grant - dns issue introduced by Bug #23. temp solution to add a
static dns + a backup. psychz & hurricane electric IPs now static in there
- 2 exitnodes instead of one. not a priority until we have more exit nodes
** mai: fam is very psyched. "you're geniuses! this is magic!" slow but
fast enough for them to stream the NBA playoffs
=== Node Mounts & Outreach ===
Node Mounts Trello:
https://trello.com/invite/b/DtzngKaM/49e1c21fc9da199fcdeceb8623b5117a/node-…
* Devi from SOL/LOLspace/Peacock Rebellion
** emails were going to wrong addresses. Now should be good further
communication this week
* Hooking up some encampments in Berkeley
** Jenny and Robb talked with Betsy Morris at the Peace & Life Fund awards
ceremony the other night. Camps at Aquatic Park, Berkeley Marina, and the
re-established FTCFTH (First They Came For The Homeless) camp at Here &
There could hella use internetz. Leads: David&Niki's could potentially
reach Here&There, however the following properties have better line of
sight (tho are renters not owners): sally at adeline & alcatrez - street
spirit publisher - tiny home village project; Inter-City Services;
Biketopia; another bix right across the street i'm forgetting the name of
** Aquatic Park (ashby side) & Dare To Change (rehab camp next door) have
LOS to Urban Ore. Something about an old abandoned radio tower in
vicinity...?!
*Ed's place - this Sunday? safety party at Ed's? sierk mentioned BBQ
** ben - has Doug seen photos? I didn't send them
** grant - yes, showed him the long shot, sierk isn't here to share more
photo's (if he has any) (Cool :D )
** Ed not present this Sunday. Requests another Sunday
=== Communications & Events ===
Comms Trello:
https://trello.com/invite/b/f3ugMPNU/94033ee6c2cef93fc1b1637b727c902a/sudo-…
// Events Trello:
https://trello.com/invite/b/Y3XfDK85/2b6fcb4fa92788609692a53a96fb4614/peopl…
* CityCamp, April 21, 2018 @ Oakland City Hall
**
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/citycamp-oakland-2018-our-city-our-future-tick…
** Mai, Ben, and you! Come to CityCamp
* Decentralized Web Summit, August 1–2, 2018 @ Internet Archive
** https://decentralizedweb.net
** mai: happened in 2016, mostly blockchain-based. they invite the "fathers
of the internet" <insert eye roll> they asked us what we wanted to propose.
largely web-based not last-mile infrastructure
* State of our Networks, July 13–18, 2018 in Toronto, Ontario w/ Toronto
Mesh
** https://ournetworks.ca/2018
** Call for Participation due April 30th
** grant: talked with Dawn of TO Mesh this evening. interested in having
people do talks/workshops. sprints the following 3 days, they have a space
where you can hack w/ folx. might be going, not sure yet. will put draft
proposal on an etherpad and share it
* Brief reportback from NAB: anka and jenny got kicked out of the
conference for holding a banner that stated "SAVE NET NEUTRALITY!" during
Ajit Pai's keynote speech. **golf claps**
=== Internal Logistics / Finance ===
Internal Logistics & Bureaucracy Trello:
https://trello.com/invite/b/LzVQlW3X/1bb8bd543c8633688175365d2554c2c2/inter…
* Strategic Plan Meeting Summary / Reportback
** https://peoplesopen.net/pad/p/pon-strategic-plan-2
** bengo - didn't leave with consensus on priorities. conversations
happened that needed to happen and were useful. wuz a little emotional
toward the end
** mai: bigger conversations that needed to happen about what PON is about
- just doing demos and encouraging people to learn, or actually building a
network. most agreed upon the latter. there was consensus on the latter.
*** ben: there was confusion over what people wanted project scope to be,
but I think it was really a matter of Jorrit wanting to ask, "what does it
take to move past being a demo? what does it take for us to move past that
and what are our current limitations?" Do feel like there was consensus on
going big.
** mai: looked at notes from our last strategic meeting and realized there
were a lot of things we had made progress on.
** bengo: user story mapping as a way of creating flows re: what someone
impacted this project. well-defined projects as opposed to themes,
agile-style backlog of priorities for the legal entity, that can reflect
any changes in priority. for new folks the top of that list is a good place
to start.
* Purchasing requests
- 24gHz airFiber ($$)
- box cutter
- large zip ties
- chimney mount Grant purchased
- harnesses and rope // climbing gear
- gloves
- shielded ethernet ends in mounting bin on shelvesDo we have non-ez
though? hmmm
- PVC
- socket wrench set
- metal snips
- binoculars
- walkie talkies
** ben - I can go to Graybar tomorrow to pick up a lot of this.
* mai: maybe a ladder?
** ben - yes please
* grant: research ecommerce site idea. how to organize and sell our swag.
== Next Sunday ==
=== Node Mount ===
We try to arrange a rooftop node mount every Sunday afternoon. Ongoing
spreadsheet is located at: https://peoplesopen.net/sundays
* Next Sunday's mount: Jenny will ping Robb re: Diane's
=== Office Hours ===
We host office hours every Sunday from 1-2pm in Sudo Room. To sign up for a
shift, fill in your name here: https://ethercalc.org/byoi_office_hours
* Notes from this past Sunday's session:
** debugging bug #27 by reproducing in Omni
** getting test bed up and running again
** grant: 100.65.42.65 and 100.65.42.1 accessible to those on the mesh
(omni mesh nodes) - can play w/ an extender node testbed
* Next Sunday's volunteer: no more party :(
** Safety Party w/ Doug at Omni
== Proposal: Accounting / Fundraising Working Group==
Please add any proposal needing consent from or action by the group below:
* mai: Proposal to create a working group to reconfigure our
account/finance situation
** For example, to understand our current financial situation, establish
protocols around purchasing, and explore options for pursuing a
self-sustaining income model for the project (which would likely entail a
spin-off enterprise)
* jnny: +1! also, working fiscal policies & procedures draft:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PeFoJUe4X3ww4mFKUMvbC4A-Yc_6sh5qbYdEgTd…
& budget request form:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13XzQBoRTMiMhZLPc8Ikuf14ur1JSSAHWNIC…
* participants: mai, jenny, ben, bengo, grant (mebbe)
** mai - consistent time to work on stuff, figuring out stuff like passpack
for purchases, formalizing procurement processes. This process might be
reflective of how we make decisions together in general. Discussion item,
moving on!
** bengo - Indefinite working group, or is it just to accomplish this
reorganization in the shortterm?
** jnny - I think an extended working group would be good.
* jnny - went to Beneficial State Bank today! They allow infinity
check-signers, infinity sub-accounts, which has been the main barrier with
Unify (sp?) which is the credit union we've been working with. Only like 10
of either.
* bengo: is this the first working group? should be a wiki page that
delineates working groups and how people can plug into different working
groups
* ben - doodle for times?
* '''Consenso?'''
== Discussion: Group decisionmaking / Establishing our relationship with
the Omni ==
* Decision re: how we want to officially establish our relationship with
the Omni brings to light larger questions about how we make decisions as
group
* Currently, our bylaws state that the Board makes consensus decisions
about financial decisions and legal agreements
** Does this work? How could we incorporate input from those who have
dedicated a lot of time and energy to the project?
*** jnny: historically, we don't follow our own bylaws. decisions have
always been made with consenso of active volunteers. also, this reminds me
we're due for our annual board meeting and nomination of new officers &
directors! all a-board! :p
** blake: having anonymity in a consensus process seems like a really bad
idea
**mai: should decide and write out how we do this, it's not written
anymore. we want everyone who's core agree, or at least live with the
decision. loomio has thumbs up, down, and sideways for instance
** bengo: maybe that can be an axtion item for finance wg - to make a
formal proposal to the board/sudomesh crew, give them a chance to veto.
** ben: do we feel like we do have consensus for a payment, eg half of $100
or $100 flat? With the caveat that discussion about additional donations
can continue
** jnny - Omni is now moving to require all groups to apply for use of
ballroom, which includes discussing a percentage donation.
** mai - In that case, most folks seem to be in favor of donating the flat
rate modulo the percentage part. So, can we move forward on the flat
donation?
== Discussion: Accounting and Purchases ==
* Mai - push topic to working group?
** (consenso)
* How do we keep track of inflows and outflows of money?
** jnny: Quickbooks login infoz in passpack, but if we use sthg like
cobudget (see below), we could easily make all income and expenses openly
transparent
* How do we decide to spend and receive funds?
** jnny: been playing around with cobudget (though it's yet another
communication platform... >_<) - invited mai, grant, ben, benny, jorrit -
anyone else want to play around wit it? https://cobudget.co
*** ben - isn't sierkje building something like this from scratch? Y'all
might wanna chat.
== Action Items ==
* Grant: Make moves on plan for PON e-commerce revenue stream (e.g. shirts,
hats, stickers)
* grant: setup nightly builds of zeroconf firrmware (debug travis further)
and tighen up openwrt build process
* ben: Jorrit and I are aso discussing CI for monitoring tools. I think
zeroconf is higher priority, though
* grant: follow-up with Paxio to confirm 24Ghz antenna situation, suggest
LOS from Omni (how do we align with their equipment?)
* mai: schedule meeting for Account/Finances Working Group
* jenny: buy some shit ^_^
* jenny: follow up with devi / lolspace
* jenny & ben: more work into vehicle procurement
== Breakout Groups ==
At the end of the meeting, break out into small groups to hack on or
discuss specific topics.
* Extended Node Whispering Discussion / Stable Release Definition(s)
== Last Meeting Notes ==
* https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/10_Apr_2018
== End of Meeting ==
* please archive these meeting notes by copying the entire pad contents
onto the sudomesh wiki
* then please erase the contents of this pad
* then please cut & paste a blank template from here:
https://sudoroom.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Mesh/Mesh_Meeting_Notes_Temp…
* previous meeting notes are archived here:
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Minutes
April 15, 2018 5:39 PM, mai(a)peoplesopen.net wrote:
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*Mai (Maira) Ishikawa SuttonFreelance Writer / Community
Organizershe/her/they/them pronounsTwitter @mairaPhone +1 (626) 862-1783*
On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 5:38 PM, <mai(a)peoplesopen.net> wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> This is your reminder to add any topics you'd like to be discussed at the
> People's Open Network meeting on Tues 17 April 2018, 7:30 - 9:00 PM PT.
> >>> https://peoplesopen.net/notes <<<
>
> Please add your discussion item(s) where it says "== Discussion: X ==" or
> "== Proposal: X ==" and include any concise, relevant comments to inform
> the discussion. Remember to also add the topic at the top under Agenda.
>
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Hey there,
This is your reminder to add any topics you'd like to be discussed at the People's Open Network meeting on Tues 17 April 2018, 7:30 - 9:00 PM PT.
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Hi Sudomeshers,
You may remember that I attended the SudoMesh meeting on March 20, and
talked about the upcoming OpenData Hackathon at SFSU April 27-29. The
minutes record:
hilary - (passes out one-laptop-per-child) OLPCs - Open Hack 2018 at SF
State University last weekend in April 27-29
- Professor Sameer Verma at SFSU - Jenny and Marc presented Sudomesh to
his class on Networking several years ago
- going to piggy back off of openhackathon -- open education part --
want to create a library for OLPCs to connect to for example. we need help
with it. the OLPCs also mesh with each other even if there's no internet,
but noone has been able to do it very successfully. two ways to be
involved. (1) sponsor a project for someone else to work on or (2) work on
a project that someone already has.
- starts on friday night - sponsors of projects will have posterboards
around the room. can see what people are being asked to do. Next morning,
people form teams to work on the projects. Sunday afternoon, present the
solutions. not exclusively OLPC projects, but Hilary will be there with
OLPC projects for people to work on.
The website is up, and we (OLPC-SF) very much hope that SudoMesh will
present one or more challenges:
https://hackathon.sfsu.edu/challenges
Here is the promotion piece if you would like to forward it to other groups
who might be interested in participating:
===
Open Hack is a local event that will take place the last weekend in April.
The event will bring together students, faculty, staff, software
developers, and entrepreneurs to collaboratively create, build, and
invent new solutions using open data, content and code to solve
challenges relevant both locally and globally.
Open Hack will provide citizens an opportunity to do what is most
quintessentially American: roll up our sleeves, get involved and work
together to improve our society.
Submit a challenge. Sign up to be a volunteer. Join us!
http://hackathon.sfsu.edu/
Open Hack SF Team
Sameer Verma, Information Systems Department
Julio Feliciano, Information Technology Services
===
I look forward to seeing a challenge from SudoMesh!
cheers
Hilary
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Hilary Naylor, Ph.D.
www.a2zed.us
Oakland CA
Calling all node whispers and potential PONIs (Peoples Open Node
Installers)!
The next Build Your Own Internet office hours* is tomorrow, Sunday April
14th from 1pm to late afternoon in SudoRoom
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Directions>.
During last week's office hours, we discovered a critical bug in the
operation of the People's Open Network. So called BUG #27
<https://github.com/sudomesh/bugs/issues/27> prevents mesh connections,
bridged by roof mounted nodes, from providing internet access to the remote
node.
Therefore, I'm proposing that we freeze work on any node mounts and put all
hands on deck to resolve this bug.
A few other node whispers and I will be around SudoRoom today and Friday to
work on this issue. Anyone interested in helping out and learning about
whispering to extender nodes is encouraged to stop by. If we are so lucky
as to resolve this bug in the next 2-3 days, then, on Sunday, I would like
to hold the first session of the "Extended Extender Node Whisperer
Extension Program," where you can learn how to detect bugs like #27 and set
up your own wireless point-to-point link using directional WiFi antennas
(i.e. extender nodes).
Hope to see y'all Sunday!
grant_____(@paidforby)
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** What are BYOI office hours? It serves two purposes:*
*1. A jumping off point for people interested helping with a scheduled
Sunday node mount, but who are not able to attend a Tuesday night meeting
or are not "in the know."*
*2. A friendly, non-confrontational time for new people to get oriented to
the project or just ask general questions about networking, the internet,
and their service provider.*
*We may also use the time to hold training sessions on a topic of choice,
conduct outreach to potential node locations, address finances and
purchasing, or tackle any other outstanding issues.*
Hey Meshers,
Instead of our regular PON/Sudo Mesh meeting, this Tuesday 10 April at 7:30pm we will be having a deeper dive strategy meeting to plan out our next few months ~ year.
Here are the meeting minutes from a few weeks ago where we discussed why we're having this, as a follow up to the one we did a few months ago: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/27_Mar_2018#Breakout_Meeting:_Strategy_Meeti… (https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/27_Mar_2018#Breakout_Meeting:_Strategy_Meeti…)
Below is a very rough outline of what we hope to cover and leave the meeting with:
* Identify three important projects, centered on getting bandwidth, building out the backbone in specific neighborhoods, etc.
* These projects should inform our communication, messaging and outreach
* Accountability — attaching specific people to tasks/projects with dedicated timelines - have at least 3 people per target area so it doesn't fall on any one person
* Clarify how BYOI office hours fold into the projects. How do we best align that time for outreach and training with our larger goals and projects?
* Reconcile allocation of time, energy, and infra with goals by first reaching out to other communities (as described above) and then allocating physical resources to support communities that are organizing.
* i.e. provide workshops at other spaces with folks who live there, then act based on their needs
I'll follow up in the next few days with a draft agenda for us to refine before we go into our meeting Tuesday evening.
Cheers,
Mai
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