By request, I drafted an invite for Bring Your Own Internet 2.0
(tentatively July).
It's on pad.riseup.net/p/byoi, also here.
Please feel free to critique. I might not be expressing the goal of the
workshop exactly.
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## possible invite for BYOI 2.0, please critique
Greetings!
{If you enjoyed Build Your Own Internet 1.0,} get ready for Build Your Own
Internet 2.0!
Tentatively planned for {date}, this will be more in-depth, with hands-on
stations that walk you through the specific …
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actual node on the Oakland Mesh.
Participants who complete the stations and want to set up a node (cost less
than $50) can walk away with a ‘flashed’ node ready to mount at home.
{note to self: this last bit could be risky unless participants sign up in
advance to pay for a node}
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> 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:
> >
> …
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> >
> > 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.
> >
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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 …
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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
`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
"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 …
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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
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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.
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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 …
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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
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I am planning to be there. Wanna make it a group outing?
---------- Forwarded Message ----------
==========================================================
The Wireless Battle Mesh v10
5th - 11th of June 2017, Vienna, Austria
==========================================================
The next 'Wireless Battle of the Mesh' will take place from Mon 5th -
Sun 11th of June in the Austrian Museum of Folk Life And Folk Art
(http://www.volkskundemuseum.at) in Vienna.
The event aims to bring …
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are interested in wireless mesh network technologies and community
networks in general. 6 days full of expert presentations, late night
hacking sessions, measurement campaigns, protocol discussions, and a
whole lotta other meshy things.
So if you are a mesh networking enthusiast, community networking
activist, or have an interest in mesh networks in general, you have to
check this out!
Continuously updated information about the event:
http://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV10
Location
========
We are located in the upper floor of very nice historical museum in the
middle of Vienna. One large conference room and two adjacent hacking
areas are at our full disposal there. The whole area offers nice
atmosphere and plenty of room to deploy measurement testbeds. The
adjacent park is a beautiful analog distraction, especially in this time
of the year. The metalab - a very active local hackerspace - is only 5
minutes away.
Accommodation Offering
======================
For those of you who are looking for a convenient and low cost
accommodation option: we have made block reservation for 40 people in a
nice hostel 10-15min walking distance from the Museum. The packages
include 6 nights in a four-bed room incl. breakfast - for a mere €100.
Follow the simple instructions below to get one of these hot deals a
first come first serve scheduler is used.
Registration
============
The event is *free of charge* and registration is optional - but it
makes the organisation much easier if you tell us in advance that you
plan to come.
Please send a mail to v10(a)battlemesh.org that looks somewhat like this:
########
Subject: Registration
Name and/or Nick
Accommodation package: [Yes/No]
T-Shirt Size: [S/M/L/none]
Other details you want to share: (e.g. community, country, URLs, twitter
handle, dietary restrictions, ...)
########
We will then put your name on the public participants list:
http://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV10/Participants
And we will answer with payment instructions for the accommodation
package to those that are interested in one.
Travel Scholarships
===================
If you want to apply for a travel scholarship (compensating the costs of
a long distance flight to Vienna and back) please explicitly tell us so
in the registration mail. We will then ask you to prepare a short video
message in which you are giving a brief introduction to yourself and
your interests.
Spread the Word
===============
Please help us spreading the word by forwarding this announcement to all
lists and people that might be interested. Blogging about it is also
very appreciated, and if you do so, please add a ping-back to the wiki page:
http://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV10
The Local Infrastructure Core Team
==================================
Albert Rafetseder (albert.rafetseder at univie.ac.at, key ID 0x90382EC8)
Clemens Hopfer (datacop at wireloss.net, key ID 0x5EBA9D09)
Paul Fuxjaeger (paul.fuxjaeger at gmx.at, key ID 0xB5BB47E7)
Contact
=======
* Web: http://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV10
* Email: http://ml.ninux.org/mailman/listinfo/battlemesh
* IRC: irc.freenode.net #battlemesh
* Twitter: https://twitter.com/battlemesh/
_______________________________________________
Battlemesh mailing list
Battlemesh(a)ml.ninux.org
http://ml.ninux.org/mailman/listinfo/battlemesh
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This Tuesday at 7:30 pm we'll be getting a visit from Stephen Seymour from
San Bruno Now.
San Bruno is in the interesting and unusual situation that it owns its own
internet infrastructure and ISP. My understanding is that San Bruno Now is
a community project being headed up by Stephen to improve San Bruno, in
small ways in the short term, with some success already, but with a grander
long term vision of re-invigorating the city and attracting artists,
researchers and new energy.
There may be …
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Bruno and People's Open Network here.
There is more to it but I'll let Stephen explain.
I was connected to Stephen by San Bruno resident Yosem Companys who some of
you may know as the long-time maintainer of the LiberationTech mailing list.
If you want to hear what Stephen has to say then you should attempt to be
at sudo room at 7:30 pm sharp, otherwise you can read the meeting notes at
your leisure.
--
marc/juul
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Just thinking - since we now have a large inventory of nodes, maybe we could set up a demo mesh network for the workshop, something that lets people see the mesh working in real-time?
We probably don’t have time to develop a visual front-end, but could probably do something interesting with a few laptops running wireshark or some other monitoring tool.
Or, if nothing else, we could have a station where people can flash a node and connect it to the network to get a feel for how things work.
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(ps my nodes arrived the other day, so I’ll be bringing them by this afternoon)
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Hey this is Andrew back up here on orcas.
Heres a couple links to what happened up here with creating a wifi source
for the island.
An article.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/
11/how-a-group-of-neighbors-created-their-own-internet-service/
And the website.
https://dbiua.org
He puts a lot of technical data too, probably tons of stuff to use.
Hi all,
Here’s my contribution to the flyer discussion - feel free to print and distribute!
I’ve also started a planning doc to coordinate everything for the workshop and make sure we’ve thought of all the details. It’s pretty skeletal right now, but I think it will be good to have all the planning info in one place: https://pad.riseup.net/p/byoi_program <https://pad.riseup.net/p/byoi_program>
Andy
I managed to get all the way through the lab; huzzah. (See the two issues
though.)
I used tshark instead of wireshark because I didn't want to install a gui,
but I think I saw what you wanted me to see.
Perhaps the next step is to interpret what I saw. We can talk about this
soon.
Thanks, Jorrit and Grant!
best,
Arthur
So I got a linux (arch) vm up and running, installed wireshark, git,
babeld, and bridge-tools (ip already installed). Cloned babeld-lab, moved
into that repository and called
sudo ./babeld-lab.sh add
as in step 1.
This is the error message I get:
vagrant@archlinux:~/babeld-lab$ sudo ./babeld-lab.sh add
RTNETLINK answers: Operation not supported
RTNETLINK answers: Operation not supported
add bridge failed: Package not installed
set stp status failed: No such device
interface veth-p0 does …
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interface veth-p1 does not exist!
Cannot create namespace file "/var/run/netns/n0": File exists
Cannot create namespace file "/var/run/netns/n1": File exists
Cannot find device "veth-n0"
Cannot find device "veth-n1"
Cannot find device "veth-n0"
For what it's worth, calling this again outputs
Cannot find device "veth-p0"
Cannot find device "veth-p1"
Cannot find device "veth-n0"
Cannot find device "veth-n1"
Cannot find device "br-babel"
I'll look through the file, but my bash is a bit rusty.
best,
Arthur
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Tomorrow is the *first* in a series of monthly events at the sudo room
hacker space in Oakland!
*Ten* humans are given *five* minutes to present a project they're
currently working on!
No long boring lectures. Five minutes and the mic cuts out. Come be
entertained and intrigued by a varied selection of hackery greatness from
the bay and beyond!
*When: Wednesday March 1st. 7 pm until 9:30 pm* followed by socializing
until late.
*Where:* *Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck, Oakland.* In the ballroom.…
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Bring snacks if you have them!
*Tentative schedule of talks: *https://sudoroom.org/wiki/5MoF_2017-03-01
and yes we totally copied this format from noisebridge :)
If you can help set up beforehand then please let me know at marc(a)juul.io
--
marc/juul
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* Order more stickers
* Get examples of live router info for dashboard (jehan and juul)
* Set up netbooks with ubiquiti nodes on poles for live demo
* Print and laminate RJ45 wiring diagrams (or design and order stickers)
* Finalize wording for flyer/poster
* Organize incoming my net n600 routers
* Hack on introductory guide
* Hack on software projects
** The mesh experimenters setup
** The new dashboard
** The mesh monitor map
anything else?
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marc/juul
This time $15 a pop from Groupon _but_ you get free shipping and you can
buy 5 per person instead of Woot's usual 3. They end up about $16 a pop
with tax.
I just ordered 10. I encourage folks to order 5 each to your own address
and bring them in. The mesh will buy them from you.
They also have the N750 version for $20 which has gigabit ethernet and
which the mesh firmware also supports, in case someone wants a slightly
better one for their own use.
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marc/juul
