Hey all,
To set up a local instance of the peoplesopen.net site (for design and
development changes), follow the instructions here:
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Website/Local
Will need to slightly augment for Mac (Luis cc'd) and Windows--but MAMP and
WAMPserver are well-documented.
I'll be adding more documentation on the workflow for the sudo mesh and
peoples open sites!
// Matt
I have a nephew who plays in a metal band, Scale The Summit. He's on tour
and his band plays at Thee Parkside at 9pm Thursday.
Back next week.
http://www.scalethesummit.com/
So, Y-combinator decided not to fund us :-/
They didn't give a reason.
Does anyone want to apply for some $1000 grants instead?
Here are some. Just grab one, fill it out and send it to the mailing list
for feedback:
http://www.awesomefoundation.org/en/chapters/knowledgehttp://www.awesomefoundation.org/en/chapters/openwebhttp://www.awesomefoundation.org/en/chapters/awesomewithoutbordershttp://www.awesomefoundation.org/en/chapters/sfhttp://thepollinationproject.org/
Also, I filed the articles of incorporation in Sacramento today. We should
be incorporated Monday. I had to specify a specific purpose for our group.
It can be modified later, but for now it says:
The specific purpose of this corporation is to promote, encourage and
facilitate the development and maintenance of free and open
community-operated telecommunications networks. In the context of this
purpose, the corporation shall engage in scientific, charitable and
educational activities within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the
Internal Revenue Code.
Total cost was $50. We'll be able to open a bank account next week.
We now have 90 days of decide on an initial board of directors, finalize
the bylaws, hold our first board meeting and file a statement of
information (another $20).
After we make the first deposit into our new bank account (receive our
first funds) we have 30 days to get an employer identification number and
file an initial registration form (another $25).
After that, we can apply for tax exempt status (which is fairly
complicated) by filing Form 1023. I'm spending some of my time reading up
on all of the requirements for tax exempt 501(c)(3) organizations. There
are definitely some gotchas with regard to paid employees and sources of
funding.
--
Marc/Juul
Inspiring stuff happening in Kansas City :)
See http://oaklandwiki.org/Digital_Divide for relevant organizations
working on these issues in Oakland.
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From: jenny <jenny(a)thepyre.org>
Date: Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 7:38 AM
Subject: [FNF] How We Connect Low Income People to the Internet
To: tunabananas <tunabananas(a)gmail.com>
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Sun Nov 03 2013 06:52:01 AM PST from "Michael Liimatta" <
michael(a)connectingforgood.org> Subject: [FNF] How We Connect Low Income
People to the Internet
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The Digital Divide is very real in Kansas City. We believe it is one of
the most important social justice issues of our day.
· 25% of Kansas City area residents don’t have broadband Internet access at
home. (3-5 Mb)
· 42% of those who don’t use the Internet have annual household incomes of
under $25,000, most of whom live in low income housing.
· 46% of nonusers are minorities.
· 70% of Kansas City Public Schools students do not have the Internet in
their homes. *
At Connecting for Good, our core belief is that connectivity equals
opportunity. Access to the Internet brings with it a chance to apply for
jobs online, connections with family and friends, access to virtual library
shelves, information about medical and health issues, online education –
GED completion and college courses – and a whole lot more. These are
resources with the potential to help an under resourced family move toward
a healthier, happier and more secure future.
To make the Internet more accessible, especially for those who live in
Kansas City’s under resourced neighborhoods, we have developed a
multifaceted approach to making affordable connectivity available.
*Affordable and Accessible Internet Through Wireless Networks*
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We are uniting with other nonprofit organizations, schools, government
entities and neighborhood associations to increase Internet access to
underserved inner city communities. As a wireless ISP, Connecting for Good
is building a network of inter-connected microwave towers, along with our
partners, the Free Network Foundation and the KC Freedom Network.
Most recently, we were engaged by the Urban Neighborhood Initiative to do
an engineering and feasibility for the Troost
Corridor<http://www.big5kc.com/greater-neighborhoods/troost-corridor-map/>.
UNI is one of the Big 5 initiatives of the Kansas City Chamber of
Commerce. We have also been involved with similar studies with a school
and another community group. Our goal is to create a strategy for engaging
additional partners to work with us to build community owned and operated
wireless networks.
*Neighborhood-wide Wi-Fi Deployments*
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The wireless backbone has created an opportunity to “light up” entire
neighborhoods with Wi-Fi mesh
networks<http://www.connectingforgood.org/understanding-mesh-networks-video/>that
will bring extremely affordable connectivity to individual homes,
businesses and nonprofit organizations. We are currently working
with neighborhood associations, property owners, residents and other
community groups who are interested in building such locally owned and
operated networks.
*Multi-family Properties*
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One of the groups with the lowest rates of in-home Internet access is
families who live in public housing and Section 8 multi-unit properties.
We have already built Wi-Fi networks in three of these facilities that
provide free Internet to over 500 low income households. We are in working
toward developing similar projects at additional properties throughout the
Kansas City Metro area.
*Public Access Computer Centers*
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Until everyone has Internet access in their own homes, we must provide
public places where people can connect to the Internet. Connecting for Good
is partnering with community groups to create more public access computer
centers. As a Microsoft Registered Refurbisher, we create high quality
inexpensive computers by collecting used PCs, wiping their data and
installing new operating systems and other software. Using this recycled
equipment, we are setting up public spaces where residents can access the
Internet and all the resources it offers. Through our free digital life
skills classes <http://www.connectingforgood.org/digital-life-skill/>, we
are helping many who have never used a computer to become productive
first-time Internet users.
*Free Wi-Fi in Public Spaces*
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Working with community partners we are also creating hotspots in strategic
locations in the inner city such as bus stops and other well-trafficked
public places. The goal is very simple to bring the Internet to people
where they are.
If you are interested in supporting our efforts or wish to learn more
about engaging us for a project in your neighborhood or facility, please
use our contact form <http://www.connectingforgood.org/contact-us/>.
For more information about our efforts, watch our recent presentation to
the Kansas City MO City
Council<http://www.connectingforgood.org/city-council-presentation/>(
10/31/13).
* Google Fiber’s study Kansas City’s Digital
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Hi!
Great stuff.
Mitar
-------- Original Message --------
From: Kurtis Heimerl <kheimerl(a)cs.berkeley.edu>
Subject: [eecs-announce] Dissertation Talk: Community Cellular Networks
To: eecs-announce(a)lists.eecs.berkeley.edu
Title: Community Cellular Networks
Speaker: Kurtis Heimerl
Advisors: Eric Brewer and Tapan Parikh
Date: Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Time: 2:00 PM
Place: 242 Sutardja Dai Hall (Not Soda, Jorge took the nice room :( )
Abstract: Cellular networks are one of the most important innovations of
the 20th century, with over six billion subscribers across all continents
on Earth. Despite this, hundreds of millions of people in rural areas
remain without coverage. We see two reasons for this: First, cellular
installations are very expensive to install in rural areas, with power
costs dominating the price of the total install. Secondly, cellular
equipment is traditionally installed top-down, with major nation-scale
providers bringing coverage to rural areas. In this work, we propose the
model of Community Cellular Networks, small scale, low cost, locally
operated cellular networks.
To enable community cellular networks, we utilize OpenBTS, an open-source
implementation of the GSM um layer. Building on this, we implemented two
key technological innovations. The first is Virtual Coverage. Virtual
Coverage introduces a sleep mode into the GSM protocol, allowing the base
station (BTS) to sleep when the network is idle, reducing power draw. An
autonomous radio, the WUR, allows users to wake the BTS when they need to
communicate. Secondly, we implemented the Village Base Station, a series of
extensions to OpenBTS and FreeSWITCH allowing for easily customizable
cellular networks.
These innovations were evaluated in the context of an in situ deployment of
both Virtual Coverage and the Village Base Station in a small community in
rural Papua, Indonesia. Through this 10 month ongoing deployment, we found
that Virtual Coverage reduced the night power draw of the network by 56.6%.
We also found that the Village Base Station allowed us to build a network
well suited to the community. As of now, it has handled over 200 thousand
SMS and is financially sustainable for the local operator, even if they
were forced to finance the network entirely.
I plan on purchasing Rambutan for this talk as well. Take that under
advisement.
--
http://mitar.tnode.com/https://twitter.com/mitar_m
May be a good target for finishing the mesh firmware and setting up some
nodes at sudo..
I can be there, anyone else interested?
On Nov 4, 2013 1:14 PM, "Jeremy Dalmas" <jdalmas(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Sudo-ers,
>
> I mailed this list a couple weeks ago, but wanted to ask again. For the
> next Oakland Nights Live, on the evening of November 9th, we are having a
> series of booths to visit rather than a proper stage show. There will be a
> variety artists, performers, and informers who will interact with a few
> audience members at a time. We would love to have 1 or 2 people from the
> Sudo room have a booth or do a demonstration if any of you are excited
> about it.
>
> I'd be happy to answer any questions, and I can give you more info to
> anyone who is interested.
>
> Thanks for any interest and thanks in general for sharing the space with
> us.
>
> -Jeremy
>
> _______________________________________________
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> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org
> http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss
>
>
My friend Pete Eyre from Cop Block was in town last week as a part of a
Police Accountability Tour and met up with us at the MeshNets 101 meetup
to learn more about the technology. In hearing about the Sudomesh
project, he decided to check out the meeting last Thursday and also the
Cryptoparty this Sunday.
He wrote this blog post:
http://www.copblock.org/39047/meshnets-transparency/
And we're going to be working together on Pt. 2 which highlights the
more tech stuff for those that are interested.
Let me know if there's anything specific about community mesh networks
or specifics from the process that Sudomesh is going through to include.
Obviously I'm more familliar with mobile mesh tech that Open Garden
made, but I've got a good handle on the home router mesh tech too - but
any input is greatly appreciated!
Pete and Cop Block both have pretty big followings (at least nationally)
so hopefully this gets the word out a bit more about this technology.
Peace!!
-Paige
Hey all,
I'm at Laney College right now. They have an open wireless network! Perhaps
they will be interested in joining peoplesopen.net. Unsure if we have a
list already, but I set one up here:
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Potential_locations
Going to do some hacking on the wiki for navigational purposes. If other
people have ideas for things that should be on the wiki, please start them!
// Matt
Hi mesh team!
We are just about ready to start deploying the first 20 nodes! \o/
This will be an experimental deployment to test the firmware, so best if
the owners of these nodes are fairly savvy so as to troubleshoot :)
If you want to be part of the beta network, it would be excellent if you
could analyze the spectrum availability around you to see what's free and
what's busy. Some tools for doing so are listed here:
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Software_tools
Freifunk recommends using Horst <http://br1.einfach.org/tech/horst/>,
available for Linux and Mac.
Looking forward to tomorrow ~!~
Jenny
http://jennyryan.nethttp://thepyre.orghttp://thevirtualcampfire.orghttp://technomadic.tumblr.com
`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
"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
~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
Ubiquiti just announced their Nanobeam M series.
They have four models:
16 dBi and 19 dBi models that appear to have panel antennas, similar to
Nanostation M.
22 dBi and 25 dBi models with parabolic antennas that may be replacements
for the Nanobridge M series.
They all have:
* 64 MB ram.
* 8 MB flash.
* Atheros MIPS 74KC, 560 MHz CPU
* 6 watt or 8 watt power consumption depending on model
The all have a new wall/roof/pole-mountable swiveling ball socket design
that allows mounting at any angle. It also has improved weatherproofing.
Data sheet here:
http://dl.ubnt.com/datasheets/nanobeam/NanoBeamM_DS.pdf
Announcement video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQJ1KmJ4l_I&t=1h11m45s
They also announced AirFiber 5 Ghz, which is a non-standard-compliant 1
Gbps, full duplex, 100 km, 50 Mhz point to point system. The interesting
thing about this system is the price: $1000 per unit.
They also announced that they're putting tunable active RF filters of their
own design in front of the Atheros chips on next year's products, which
makes them much better at ignoring interference. They are already shipping
this in their UniFi AP Outdoor+, but that product is 2.4 ghz only.
--
Marc/Juul
Hi!
Anybody going? It seems there is a "mobile, wireless and networking"
topic as well.
Mitar
-------- Original Message --------
From: Robyn Perry <nybor.robyn(a)gmail.com>
Subject: [noise@ischool] Nonprofit Development Summit coming up in November
To: noise(a)ischool.berkeley.edu
Folks who are interested in connecting with great work happening in the
nonprofit sphere in the Bay should check out the Nonprofit Dev Summit put
on by Aspiration Tech on Nov 18-20.
Techies and nonprofits come together for 3 days at Preservation Park in
Oakland (15 minutes from here on BART) to hash out everything related to
technology needs of the nonprofit sector (past attendees have included
OpenStreetMap people, the founder of Change.org, and many others...). I've
attended for a number of years and it's always well-organized, very
valuable, and fun, and I learn a ton.
Think networking, summer internships, job possibilities, etc. Happy to
answer any questions about it.
There's a sliding scale for registration, so name your price. Aspiration
Tech just asks that folks commit to attending for a full day.
Read a bit about it: http://aspirationtech.org/ and/or register here:
https://aspirationsummit2013.eventbrite.com/
--
http://mitar.tnode.com/https://twitter.com/mitar_m
...can be viewed here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ao_Q7DQvNFT-dGE0a3hSRnVlck1xVH…
We've yet to add details for October - adding an 'exit node' and backup
services. Marc, can you add those details?
Tomorrow we should go over the draft of our
Bylaws<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Bylaws>and push to incorporate
within two weeks - from there we can set up a
proper bank account, transfer the current standing funds from my & Marc's
account to it, and set up a donation portal at sudomesh.org.
Feel free to edit the Bylaws <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Bylaws> now to
expedite this process!
Cheers,
Jenny
http://jennyryan.nethttp://thepyre.orghttp://thevirtualcampfire.orghttp://technomadic.tumblr.com
`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
"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
~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
Hi all!
Feels great to be back! Looking forward to reconnecting on Thursday and
giving a full reportback on the inspiring conference I participated in in
Berlin!
You're all invited to join the Open Garden team tomorrow evening in SF
(20th & Mission) for beers and a demo of Open Garden followed by a
discussion on meshnets and their importance in the future of Internet
access and communication. You can RSVP on Meetup.com here:
http://www.meetup.com/Tech-Garden-SF/events/143141932/
Would love to see you there!
Jenny
http://jennyryan.nethttp://thepyre.orghttp://thevirtualcampfire.orghttp://technomadic.tumblr.com
`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
"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
~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
