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: …
[View More]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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> context and lead that discussion.
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> Thanks,
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> Mai
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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.
>>> https://peoplesopen.net/notes (https://peoplesopen.net/notes)
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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 …
[View More]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
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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 …
[View More]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.*
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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 …
[View More]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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w00t!
this is for the grant app
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bv5qjzsAPexpmIAEUj_ddQe50nsHUz9jy4paAxf…>
I wrote up last month to the People's Life Fund (No War Tax Grant) for
funding a combo-project of disaster.radio, the laptops project, the
hackpack project and the BYOI workshops.
please reply here if you'd be interested in helping to facilitate a
workshop on digital literacy, digital security, hardware and/or electronics
hacking - a component of the hackpack project <http://…
[View More]hackpack.me> juul and
i initiated some years ago to distribute backpacks with all the basic tools
and equipment one needs to hack the planet ^_^ it's be great if we could
have an equal number of participants and instructors / helpers!
additionally, our check from Mozilla finally arrived!! let's order some
gear :D
--
Jenny Ryan
People's Open Network <https://peoplesopen.net>
*Building a community-owned and -operated wireless network in Oakland,
California!*
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Martha Cain <mcain7(a)sbcglobal.net>
Date: Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 7:11 PM
Subject: PLEASE RESPOND for 2018 Grant from the People’s Life Fund
To: "jenny(a)peoplesopen.net" <jenny(a)peoplesopen.net>
On Sunday, April 1, 2018 11:38 AM, Jonathon Marley <
marley(a)stanfordalumni.org> wrote:
Dear Jenny,
The People's Life Fund (PLF) is pleased to award Sudo Mesh a grant
of $2,500 for your work in 2018.
We request the honor of your presence at the PLF Granting Event on Sunday,
April 15 (details below) to receive your check. One of our priorities is
to fund groups that include in their leadership the people impacted by the
work of the organization. Thus, we invite you to bring participants to
help receive your organization’s grant award.
Please *Reply All to this email by April 9* to confirm that your group will
accept this grant and to let us know the name(s) of the person(s) who will
attend to receive the check on behalf of your organization. We would like
them to make a one-minute statement about the project for which the grant
will be used.
*When:* Sunday night, April 15, 2018
6:00-6:30 Potluck (please bring something to share)
6:30-8:00 Granting ceremony
8:00-8:30 Dessert & Networking
*Where:* Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, 1924 Cedar Street,
Berkeley, CA
<https://maps.google.com/?q=1924+Cedar+Street,+Berkeley,+CA&entry=gmail&sour…>
(eight blocks from North Berkeley BART station)
The People’s Life Fund is a project of Northern California War Tax
Resistance. The funds for PLF grants come from interest earned on a pool
of income tax dollars that activists refuse to pay to the federal
government because they cannot in good conscience support the government’s
use of these taxes for military purposes. Instead they choose to re-direct
them to community organizations through the PLF.
We encourage you to spread the word that war tax resistance is happening in
the U.S. and that the dollars not paid to the IRS are being used positively
by groups like yours to promote social justice and peace, for the health of
the planet, and to move our world toward a new sharing economy.
Specifically, we request that Sudo Mesh lists us among its funders as: “War
Taxes Redirected by the People’s Life Fund.”
Finally, *we would greatly appreciate hearing from you no later than
December 1, 2018* regarding how your project is progressing. Please send
us a short report – no longer than one page, please! – describing how the
funds were used and what impact they have made on the work you do.
Feel free to call or email with any questions you might have. We
appreciate your commitment to justice and peace and thank you for giving us
the opportunity to support your valuable work.
Kind regards,
Jon Marley
People's Life Fund
P.O. Box 2422
Berkeley, CA 94702
(510) 842-6124
NoWarTax(a)riseup.net
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I found the google maps map of all the installed nodes.
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=19Tl0Uqxd7A-TaPH6KPPcaFZ7Yk0&ll=37…
Do we have a more in depth map somewhere? I want to make a more tactical
map of the type of extender node deployed, height, and probable range and
direction. If anyone has logs/notes that might be helpful... Send em my
way!
Example:
--
Max Schwartz
maxschwartziv(a)gmail.com
314-578-4503
Hello mesh people!
The next Build Your Own Internet office hours* is tomorrow, Sunday April
8th from 1pm to late afternoon in SudoRoom
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Directions>.
Same as last week, we'll be going through steps to prepare for a node mount
we're doing in the late afternoon. We’ll be flashing nodes, talking through
a chimney mount, and going through safety checks.
We want to limit this scheduled mount to 4 people (first come, first
participate!) but encourage folks to come, …
[View More]hang out, learn about/hack on
all things mesh.
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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Hello meshers,
Sudo Mesh is a project that has been based out of /slash/ has been a sponsored project of the Omni for several years. Now, we're not only incorporated as our own non-profit entity, we have some financial resources that we can do something with! In light of this, we'd like to give back to the Omni and contribute some amount of regular payment to help sustain the space.
In order to come up with a plan that all of us agree upon, we decided to try out Loomio, a decentralized/…
[View More]horizontal decision-making platform. This is also our first stab at using this tool to see if this might be a good way to *online* some discussions and decisions that tend to be made at our Tuesday evening meetings.
Here's the link to join the Loomio group and chime into the discussion: https://www.loomio.org/invitations/b3cbdf03062f692a02ae (https://www.loomio.org/invitations/b3cbdf03062f692a02ae)
Benny has also created a ranked choice vote of plans to regularly support the Omni — please check that out and vote here: https://www.loomio.org/p/P2D4zTqX/how-to-give-to-the-omni- (https://www.loomio.org/p/P2D4zTqX/how-to-give-to-the-omni-)
Feel free to email me directly if you have questions about all this.
Mai
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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 3 April 2018.
>>> 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.
If you add something, we expect you to come to the meeting to give some
context and …
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Thanks,
Mai
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hey y’all
Over a month ago, thanks to @jhpoelen’s initiative, we started the Node
Whisperer Program (NWP) <https://github.com/sudomesh/node-whisperer-program>.
While a wonderful program, some people (i.e. me, myself, and I) noticed
that the NWP omits one crucial aspect of the People’s Open Network, the
extender node. There were suggestions that knowledge about extender nodes
could be shared in extension to NWP (the Extended Extender Node Whisperer
Extension Program?); however, recent …
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encouraged me to propose an alternative.
Therefore, I’d like to propose a separate Node Installer Program (NIP) --
open to other names node mounter, node placer, node shouter. Unlike NWP,
which has a strong focus on sharing mesh networking concepts and debugging
skills, the NIP would be focused on training people to facilitate node
installations (colloquially known as “node mounts”) which is the main point
of interaction with extender nodes. My initial proposal for this program is
as follows.
To become a “certified” People’s Open Node Installer (a PONI), one must
complete the three following tasks:
1. Participate in a Node Mount Training and Safety Explanation session
(either at the Omni or on-site)
2. Contribute to at least one (ideally two) node mounts, this means going
along, learning the steps, becoming familiar with equipment, and
interacting with a node owner.
3. Facilitate at least one node mount, this means finding someone from our
list (or just a friend, family member, co-worker) who’d like a node,
scheduling the installation, performing day-of coordination, and completing
the install.
Node installers should also be familiar with (and contribute to?) the
learning materials at https://github.com/sudomesh/mounting
I’m open to alternative course material and structure suggestions. I would
be interested to hear who already considers themselves a PONI (Ben, Jenny,
Will...) and who would like to take the steps to become a PONI. Looking
forward to discussing this at Tuesday night’s meeting (notes available
here, https://peoplesopen.net/ ) and perhaps doing some of the first
official training at this Sunday’s office hours.
thanks,
grant_____(@paidforby)
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Hello mesh people!
The next Build Your Own Internet office hours* is this Sunday April 1st from
1pm to late afternoon in SudoRoom <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Directions>.
This week, we'll be going through steps to prepare for a node mount we're
doing in the late afternoon. For anyone interested, we'll go through the
steps of doing a mount so you can join (or even lead!) ones in the future.
Look forward to seeing y'all on Sunday.
Mai
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** What are BYOI office hours? It serves …
[View More]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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Greets!
I said I would send deets on a proposed formal relationship between Sudo
Mesh and Omni, now that sudomesh is a legit 501c3 with some funding. This
was brought up at the Omni Finance WG meeting the other week
<https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Event:2018/03/12_Finance_%26_Fundraising>, as
we're in the process of updating our lease agreements with Omni member
collectives.
Proposal: Allocate $100/month to Omni in exchange for storage & meeting
space usage, plus a percentage of …
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space usage for workshops
* All groups that utilize the building contribute something financially,
which enables the Omni to remain fiscally solvent. we've had a free ride
for a minute now, and now have financial resources we can share.
** Sample lease agreement attached.
* Optional, secondary proposal: We could become a member collective of the
Omni, since Sudo Mesh is its own organizational entity with hella upswing
right now. It's mostly a position of responsibility: attending 2x meetings
per month (via a Delegate representative, tho all meetings are open to the
public. any collective can also go 'inactive' after missing 2 meetings and
that's totally okay - we all bizzy) as well as having at least 2 sudomesh
members involved in Omni working groups (Robb and I already are, so that
req is kinda moot). These meetings are super on-point at this point in time
and good learnings for anyone interested in representative democracy,
consensus processes, and grappling with issues of intersectional
oppression.
** See also:
Member Collectives Handbook
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lQrDIBz1zg5xUl2quCA3RBWvINBnABb6UkWHoVs…>
** It would entail a written proposal and representation at an upcoming
Delegates Meeting (1st & 3rd Thursdays @ 7-9pm)
<3
Jenny
Help open a professional kitchen at the Omni Commons in Oakland!
https://omnicommons.org/kitchen
`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
"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
"Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon."
--Dave Sim, "Cerebus the Aardvark"
~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
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Hey fellow mesh-related humans,
We're having a strategy meeting for People's Open! We're doing this to help
come to some consensus on how we'd like to communicate with folks, and
where to best coordinate and focus our efforts. *Our ultimate goal is to
have several concrete projects that we'd like to implement over the next
year.*
*This meeting is mostly for people who are already participating actively
in organizing People's Open, and want to contribute over the next year.*
Please fill out …
[View More]the doodle poll below by April 1st so we can set a time
that works best for the most people.
>>> https://doodle.com/poll/fcw38zqvu9ivn7p8 <<<
Thanks!
Best,
Jeremy
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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 26 March 2018.
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. Please also add the topic at the top under Agenda.
If you add something, we expect you to come to the meeting to give some
context and lead that discussion.
Thanks,
Mai
Hey meshers,
We will be continuing our Build Your Own Internet (BYOI) office hours*
this Sunday March 25th from 1pm to late afternoon in SudoRoom.
This week's ~theme~ is *Node Appreciation Day*!
Nodes (yes, your node too!) are an essential parts of our mesh network,
almost as important as you . . . the human that keeps your node up and
running. As you probably know, People's Open Network (
https://peoplesopen.net ) nodes look very much your regular internet
router, except for that they …
[View More]are social and open . Rather than ignoring
neighboring wifi networks, our nodes (and yours!) actually chat (or
mesh) with each other to collaboratively provide open internet to more
folks in a larger area.
Anyways, spring is coming, so bring your node over to the BYOI office
hours to get the latest patches for faster and more reliable access,
learn about how stuff works, hack, chat, socialize, wander, and perhaps
even help decorate some friendly People's Open Network node with
rhinestones or sweet mesh stickers .
Hope to see you there!
-jorrit
PS If you don't run a People's Open Network, but are curious learn more
about running a node, come on over and we'll show you around. Nodes are
available for a suggested $20 donation.
PS2 If you node is collecting dust and/or isn't running, please bring it
over and bring it back to life!
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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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Hey mesh crew!
This is the SF OpenData hackathon Hilary was talking about tonight. There
are exciting plans to work with the OLPC laptops to build a mesh network
for students, I'll let her add those notes to this thread (cc'd)
If interested, plz reply to this thread ^_^
<3
Jenny
Help open a professional kitchen at the Omni Commons in Oakland!
https://omnicommons.org/kitchen
`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
"Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories."
-Laurie …
[View More]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
"Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon."
--Dave Sim, "Cerebus the Aardvark"
~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Hilary Naylor <hnaylor(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 3:29 PM
Subject: [sudo-discuss] Opendata, OpenEdu Hackathon
To: SudoRoom <sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org>
*Open Hack 2018 at SF State UniversitySave the date! Friday April 27th to
Sunday April 29th, 2018 at San Francisco State University.OLPC-SF is
collaborating with San Francisco State University to produce Open Hack
2018, an open data and education hackathon. It's a three-day event where
participants will pitch ideas, form teams, and build something together.
The projects are centered around open data and education. There will be
prizes for the best projects developed over the event.Date: 5:00 PM, Fri
April 27th - 5:00 PM, Sun April 29thLocation: San Francisco State
University, 1600 Holloway Ave., San Francisco, CA, 94132 USAWebsite:
https://www.olpcsf.org/open-hack-2018
<https://www.olpcsf.org/open-hack-2018>More information coming soon.*
---
Hilary Naylor, Ph.D.
www.a2zed.us
Oakland CA
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Please add any proposals or discussion items for tonight's meeting to the
pad: https://peoplesopen.net/notes
(btw, just had to restart etherpad-lite again..)
Last week's meeting notes can be found here:
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/13_Mar_2018
<3
Jenny
Help open a professional kitchen at the Omni Commons in Oakland!
https://omnicommons.org/kitchen
`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
"Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories."
-Laurie Anderson
"Storytelling …
[View More]reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."
-Hannah Arendt
"To define is to kill. To suggest is to create."
-Stéphane Mallarmé
"Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon."
--Dave Sim, "Cerebus the Aardvark"
~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
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Hello mesh people!
The next Build Your Own Internet office hours* is this Sunday March 18th
from 1pm to late afternoon in SudoRoom
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Directions>.
This week, we are excited to be welcoming visitors from *Alameda* who are
interested in Building their Own Internet!
We plan on providing them with formal training on the skills, knowledge,
and resources needed to start their own community wireless network. We are
looking for all the help we can get, here's an …
[View More]incomplete list of kind of
people we need to help us,
- *organizers*: people who can coordinate space, logistics, and people.
- *crimpers*: people who can share their ability to crimp ethernet cable
(it's easy, even if you don't know, we'll teach you)
- *mounters*: people who are familiar with the skills and equipment needed
to deploy a roof-mounted antenna
- *explainers*: people who are comfortable explaining how the People's Open
Network works, what doesn't work, and what we are working on!
- *whisperers*: people who can speak to the nodes on the mesh
- *outreachers*: people who can connect people to people
- *drawerers*: people who can connect lines, dots, nodes, etc. to form
pictures
- *talkers*: people who can talk to people
So pretty much anyone and everyone.
If you are able to make it Sunday afternoon, it would be great if you could
arrive by 12pm so we have time to clean up SudoRoom and organize some of
the equipment.
Finally, this event is, of course, still open to the public. In fact, it
would be a great time to come by and learn about the project!
Look forward to seeing y'all on Sunday!
-grant
---
** 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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Hey there,
This is your weekly reminder to add any topics you'd like to be discussed
to the SudoMesh meeting agenda by the evening of 13 March 2018.
https://peoplesopen.net/pad/p/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. Please also add the topic at the top under Agenda.
If you do add something, we expect you to come to the meeting to give some
context and …
[View More]lead that discussion.
Thanks!
Mai
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hey meshers -
As I was troubleshooting with Daniel and Arthur during BYOI office hours
yesterday, we managed to get about 20 nodes back online. It reminded me
that we sorely need more folks that can, and are willing to, help out
with day-to-day network operations.
This why I'd like to volunteer to participate in another node whisperer
session (see https://github.com/sudomesh/node-whisperer-program)
provided there's enough interest.
The idea is that a node whisperer to-be will explain …
[View More]how PON works,
setup some nodes and show how commonly used tools (ip addr, tcpdump,
traceroute, dig, ip route, babeld and tunneldigger) can be used to
troubleshoot network connections and figure out who's meshing with what.
if this person feels sufficiently confident, then they'll get increased
access to our existing network.
*Please let me know if you are interested to help out with day-to-day
network operations (aka node whispering) and if you are interested in
joining tomorrow at 9p at Omni following the sudomesh meeting.* With a
reasonable amount of folks (>5) we should be able to have enough
collective knowledge/eyes to keep our network healthy without having to
rely on one or two individuals.
-jorrit
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Hey mesh peoples,
This is your weekly reminder to add any topics you'd like to be discussed
to the SudoMesh meeting agenda before 7:30p (tonight!) Tuesday 6 March:
https://peoplesopen.net/pad/p/notes
>> Add your item where it says "Example Discussion Item" or "Example
Proposal"
If you do add something, we expect you to come to the meeting to give some
context and lead that discussion.
See y'all tonight!
-grant____/@paidforby
Hello meshers!
The next Build Your Own Internet office hours* is this Sunday March 4th from
1pm to late afternoon in SudoRoom <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Directions>.
Last time, we learned to flash nodes (even on windows!), answered questions
about *what* is SudoMesh/PeoplesOpen (and *who* and *how* and *why*), and
at the end of the afternoon went on 3 simultaneous node mounts. 👷🛠📡
This week's theme is *Communication.* Possible projects include:
- creating a "hooray we mounted a …
[View More]node at your house!" letter/exit survey
with links to useful resources (to give to node-owners at the end of a
mount)
- sending e-mails to folks who have expressed interest in getting a node at
their home (there's a backlog)
- proof-reading/editing existing grant applications and writing new ones
- finalizing our newsletter template and business plan
- adding more questions and answers to our node whisperer educational
materials and labs
Should be fun! As usual, this is also a good time to show up / ask
questions / figure out if and how you want to get involved.
--Benny
---
** 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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