- mesh - sudoroom.org

by Marc Juul

Let's replace the meeting next week with a hack night and start early! I know some of us will be hacking on the firmware but there are many other (and non-tech) things to hack in. Next Thursday (the 18th), starting at 5 pm, in sudo room. If you can't be there at 5 pm, come by later. We'll be there until late late. If you don't know what to work on, we'll send out another email soon with things that you can come and hack/work on! Here's a short list: Name ideas. Sticker T-shirt design. … [View More]

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Meeting Minutes June 11th

by Jenny Ryan

*July 11th Meeting Minutes [reposted here<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/11_July_2013> ] * = Agenda = *Update on crowdfunding campaign [ https://www.wepay.com/donations/oakland-community-mesh-network] *Report-back on existing mesh: Jenny on OTI's Commotion project *Firmware overview *Name brainstorm! [https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Naming] **Set tentative deadline? Three weeks? =Attendees= *Marc, Mikey, Nader, Jenny, Miguel, Jacob, Mitar, MaxB =Announcements= *We now have $2,203.00 … [View More]from the WePay, and still around 0.7 Bitcoins (about $70 depending on the date) =Report-Back= *OTI's Commotion Project is currently being tested in Red Hook, Brooklyn and Detroit (3 different community meshes) - https://commotionwireless.net/ *[1] http://ulysses.detroitfuturelab.org/, [2] http://www.our-morningside.com/, [3] http://ms-mesh.org/ =What we're doing= *Mesh the east bay! (at least to start with....) *Batman-adv firmware at least for first deployment *Planning on getting bandwith donations in order to serve the internet to hosts. *Free to the "consumer" *Business ideas - local businesses could put small ads on splash page *VPN tunnels mean IPs could be hidden *TOR exit node? Limits liability =Today I learned= *https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned *It would be nice to hold one on mesh networking *Introducing mesh to the public =Firmware Stuff= *New Page: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Firmware *Firmware brainstorm: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Firmware **Mesh, Public, Private **Bandwidth shaping **Remote administration (if allowed) **Web admin interface ***Change private SSID ***Status of node ***Sharing allocation **Report/status **Local services =How to Pitch to Community= *Opening up / sharing your wifi for neighbors to use *Why paying twice, at home and when on move? =Naming= *For 10$ you could vote on a name! *should it be independent of organization, geography, and hacker space? *SSIDEAL; Route-Around *Need to determine our organizational structure - non-organizationally-linked neutral name =Berkeley Co-op Folks= *Would like first to mesh the houses *Would also dig potentially creating the link between houses and the Internet Archive link in Richmond =Technological Stuffs= *VPN in kernel space: https://github.com/wlanslovenija/tunneldigger =Misc Notes= *Newer Ubiquiti firmware *CJDNS - https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns *VPN tunnels for directing mesh traffic *Look up legal liability w/ regards to traffic crossing "our" VPN *One VPN connection is enough for a largeish network *"Please choose the legal regime for your traffic" *cooperation between networks (sharing VPNs, group buys, ...) *Become a reseller, or make our own hardware =OTI network (Commotion)= * Redhood Brooklyn + Detroit * useful in New York - Sandy * Tidepools http://tidepools.co/ * now concentrating in Detroit * small mesh networks, 8-9 nodes * Open??? networks (GSM) * inflatable towers for GSM - crazy stuff http://openbts.org/ =Action Items= *TOR =Post-Meeting Discussion Groups= *wlan-slovenia & VPN etc; --------- Jenny http://jennyryan.net http://thepyre.org http://thevirtualcampfire.org http://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 ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` [View Less]

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Meeting Tonight, 8:30pm at Sudo Room

by Jenny Ryan

Hi all! It would be great to have an idea of who's coming tonight, so we can craft the agenda accordingly. Here's a link to our Riseup etherpad<https://pad.riseup.net/p/510penmeeting>, so please add to it things you would like to discuss tonight! I will giving a report-back about OTI's Commotion Wireless initiative and updating us all on the current crowdfunding campaign. Take a minute to re-share with your friends, families, social networks etc: https://www.wepay.com/donations/oakland-… [View More]

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Any requests for stuff to talk about?

by Adrian Chadd

Hiya, I'm heading out to NY for a couple of weeks; are there any questions on technical topics about how the hardware / wifi stuff works under the hood? I'm happy to do up a mini-talk for this stuff if you'd like. Thanks! -adrian

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Decision making

by Mitar

Hi! One of topics we discussed at Thursday's meeting was also the establishment of non-profit organization. In Slovenia we are also thinking about that but we discussed also the issues which arise on meetings because not all members attend the meetings and then quorum is hard to achieve. This is especially problematic for communities build around virtual communities. But still, we want as horizontally organized organization as possible. So I prepared what voting schema which builds around the … [View More]

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Peering agreement

by Mitar

Hi! So I posted that ticket on our wlan slovenija Trac some time ago, but I am also writing now here because maybe there are some people who would be also interested in more lawish approach to open networks. So the idea I have is that what we are doing now with community wireless networks, how we grow them and connect them is all very similar to how Internet was build in the beginning. Mostly it all works because of the trust and because we share similar values. But as we will grow, we will … [View More]face issues. For example, can our networks be used for commercial uses. Can we filter some traffic we object to? Will you transit traffic over your network from some other network with which rules you do not agree on? In general, we will face net neutrality issues. And instead of waiting that we get to the stage when things will be hard to change, I was thinking that we should learn from Internet and make one change: organic growing and interconnecting of networks is great, but let us all have a common base of things we agree on, and let us have a legal backing of that. Internet has no law regulating it, but we should use law to regulate our networks so that we assure that they are open and neutral forever. It is like using copyright to defend the commons. :-) (Of course we should also try to make it technologically ensured to be so, but why not have one line of defense more? And sometimes it is good to write things down, just so that everybody involved knows what to expect.) We could have something similar to GPL which in short would require from you net neutrality, if you are connecting to the network, and that others who will connect to you, will adhere to the same agreement (peerleft? :-) ). I am not a lawyer, so I am not sure if "licensing" can be used in this way. What is a difference between license and agreement? Can you give a license to somebody that he or she is allowed to connect to your network and spread it further under this and this conditions. And if they break those conditions, they are lost their right to connect and are thus illegal. Concrete proposal is here: http://grow.wlan-si.net/ticket/1258 When drafting this idea I read many other such agreements/licenses listed here: http://interop.wlan-si.net/wiki/Legal/Licenses Is there any lawyer around who would be interested in drafting such a peerleft (beerleft?) license? Do you know about some other similar licenses I missed? So, this is something which is probably for you very down along the road, initially this is probably overkill, but maybe some are interested also in this aspects. (For all who are maybe not familiar with peering agreements. So the idea is that you make some type of agreement between nodes connecting, or even networks as whole connect, about how you will transit their traffic over your node or network. Inside one community wireless networks this is often not a problem, but maybe you will get a person who will want to filter all porn going over his or her node because it will be morally objecting. How to deal with this? One way is to ignore it. Another is to have some organization with ruling power over all nodes. The other is to try to technically assure that this is impossible to do (which might not be viable or even moral). And there is the thing which I am proposing which is that all nodes are seen as individual entities which adhere to the same license. Whoever is deploying this nodes. You don't care. If they adhere to the license. And if they don't, you have a right to cut them off.) Mitar [View Less]

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ssh to mesh node

by Max B

Hey I have a bit of a technical question (let me betray my ignorance a bit....) I've set up one of the ubiquiti picostation nodes with the batman-adv configuration. It seems to be working as expected. It's broadcasting 2 ssids, one 'sudomesh' as an AP, and the other 'sudomesh-backchannel' as ad-hoc. I can connect to 'sudomesh' from a laptop and then connect to the internet. The question I have is: Is there a way for me to ssh into the router in order to change configurations, etc? I … [View More]

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Meeting Minutes 7/4

by Jenny Ryan

Minutes as always reposted to the wiki: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/04_July_2013* * Action Items in bold below. Please take on action items and reply to this thread accordingly! :)* * * July 4th Meeting Minutes* Welcome to the Oakland Mesh Meeting: Freedom Edition. ... liberating ourselves from the telecoms since January 2013! *= New Action Items =* ** Reach out to the Berkeley folks to aim to reach the Internet Archive Richmond node (jenny)* ** Blog post on our setup of the first two … [View More]nodes and describing the hardware we received (jenny)* ** Let's make a flier! Who can help? (jenny will start a thread on the list) * ** Next reportback on an active mesh - Jenny on OTI/Commotion* ** Research resilient ethernet cable (Adrian?) ** Tune the OpenWRT settings on the new nodes for RTS / CTS and ACK timing * ** Name brainstorm! Add to the "Naming" page here: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Naming* ** Website (contingent on name)* ** Splash page design* = Attendees = * Max B, Juul, Jenny, Jordan, Mitar, Adrian = Announcements = * Crowdfunding campaign is doing great with 26 days remaining: $2,053.00 (WePay), $56.92 (BitCoin) * Juul has started putting together bylaws for 501c3 status! - https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Bylaws * International Community Wireless Summit in Berlin Oct. 2-4: http://2013.wirelesssummit.org/ - ** Jenny submitted a workshop proposal and applied for travel funding = Report-backs = * Mitar from wlan-slovenia: ** Must be strategic and have many nodes ** Abundance of fiber / connectivity ** Major difficulty was getting beyond the techies and reaching the masses ** Primary selling point was to open wireless networks and choosing how much of one's bandwidth they can share, enabling connectivity across the whole city. ** Protected by connecting through a *VPN tunnel* to central servers. ** Get folks to deploy their own nodes - so they don't think of the mesh as a service provided, but rather a DIY endeavor ** Lead by example, the village / neighborhood will follow ** Point of centralization is the two guys with root access to the server who administer the nodes, firmware upgrades, etc (plz correct if incorrect) ** Focus on scalability ** Made a simple GUI for indicating router and getting an image instantly created for it = Notes = * Brainstorm on name for the mesh! ** COM - Cutting Out the Middleman ** OWN - Oakland Wireless Network ** Mitar recommends hacing the name by unaffiliated with the hackerspace and non-geographically-specific * Tax Status: ** 501(c)4 - non-tax-deductible ** 501(c)3 - can't do party politics (but can be political? - EFF is a 501(c)3!) * Social pressure to allocate bandwidth to the mesh, sharing connectivity * Adrian suggests, owning the first 100 nodes, with gradual replacement as the network grows to a full-on decentralized model * Our model as a 501c3 is to serve as a facilitator for the mesh. = Old Action Items = * Add your potential node to the map! - http://meshmap.sudoroom.org (we now have 23 potential nodes. keep em comin!) * Get batman-adv running at Hearth node, mesh with LiveLabs node * Find some tall rooftops for Adrian to test TDMA point-to-multipoint links * Research 501(c)x statuses: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Tax_Structure_Research - Marc did. --------- Jenny http://jennyryan.net http://thepyre.org http://thevirtualcampfire.org http://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 ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` [View Less]

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Meeting on 4th of July?

by Steve Berl

I assume there is no Mesh group get together this week. -- -steve

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Introduction

by Adrian Chadd

Hi! I'm Adrian. I'm a wifi hacker. I worked at Qualcomm Atheros for 18 months on various open and closed source wifi things. I'm also the FreeBSD wireless developer. My main focus is FreeBSD but I know a bunch of stuff about openwrt and the Linux wireless stack and Atheros drivers. Right now I'm working on FreeBSD support for the latest Atheros chips and SoCs (the AR933x and AR934x stuff), as well as finishing off the 11n support for TDMA and 802.11s mesh. I came along to the mesh meetup … [View More]

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Introducing myself and my non profit

by Charles Wyble

Hello meshers! My name is Charles Wyble, and I've been involved with mesh networks for about 10 years. A couple years ago, I cofounded a non profit called the Free Network Foundation. We've been working on making the Ubuntu lts of mesh. We call it FreedomStack. You can learn more at http://www.thefnf.org . We are trying to participate in every single us based mesh community, and provide assistance, connections etc. We also are securing ipv6 space and building relationships with carriers , so … [View More]

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Sudo-Mesh Social Club

by Eddan Katz

As my task from this past week for the Mesh group has been to do some more research on tax structure advantages and disadvantages - I wanted to share my excitement about 501(c)(7) with everyone. Social Clubs! Check it out -- http://www.irs.gov/Charities-&-Non-Profits/Other-Non-Profits/Social-Clubs. Examples of 501(c)(7) ---- College social/academic fraternities and sororities Country clubs Amateur hunting, fishing, tennis, swimming and other sport clubs Dinner clubs that provide a meeting … [View More]

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How to help the mesh!

by Marc Juul

If you talk to anyone and they ask how to help the mesh project, I set up this web page: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/How_to_help Feel free to add / edit. -- Marc

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Hello mesh!

by Marc Juul

We have the first two nodes mounted, running and connected! On the mesh map they are "Hearth" and "Adeline Livelabs": http://meshmap.sudoroom.org/ As you can see, the houses are almost exactly one block from each other on opposite sides of the street. Each house has a Ubiquiti Bullet 2 HP with a large omnidirectional antenna mounted on the roof. Unfortunately the only easy mounting point on the livelabs roof was not near the front of the house, resulting in the signal being blocked by two … [View More]

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Netgear router?

by Steve Berl

Hi, Just snagged a Netgear WGR614 v5 router from Freecycle. I wonder if the sudoroom mesh group is interested in having it? -steve

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Meeting Minutes 6/27

by Jenny Ryan

Reposted on the wiki at: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/27_June_2013 Please add your own notes to this semi-scattered documentation! :) Remember we are also hanging regularly on #510pen on Freenode IRC! Attendees - Chris J, Jenny, Max, Juul, Luis, Adrian, Christie, Thomas New Action Items - Add your potential node to the map! - http://meshmap.sudoroom.org - Get batman-adv running at Hearth node, mesh with LiveLabs node - Next reportback on an active mesh - Jenny - Find … [View More]some tall rooftops for Adrian to test TDMA point-to-multipoint links - Research resilient ethernet cable - Tune the OpenWRT settings on the new nodes for RTS / CTS and ACK timing - Brainstorm on name for the mesh! Old Action Items - Decide on name (some suggested options further down in the notes) - Research 501(c)x statuses: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Tax_Structure_Research - Put together a brochure / pamphlet - Website (contingent on name) - Splash page design - Glossary of terms (eg Fresnel zone, Hidden Node problem, etc) on the wiki - MaxB began: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Terms Announcements - Marc & Jenny set up the first two nodes at their home rooftops Report-backs - Marc reporting on Seattle Meshnet: - They are using cjdns and part of Project Meshnet - Hyperboria: mesh on top of the internet. like Tor. - Currently running an excellent - Bay Area Wireless Users Group (died awhile ago) Misc Notes - For every 10-20 street level nodes (2.4GHz) there will be one rooftop (5GHz) node - Ubiquiti Tough Cable - some batches of them weren't UV-resistant - Solve the hidden node problem with Non-Violent Communication for devices (make requests, send acknowledgments) - Alternatively, this has been solved with TDMA - but that's currently not available on Linux - Reflowing electronics - heat up a circuit board at the right temperature in a toaster oven to melt the solder and enable the joints to re-form - Adrian can port OpenWRT onto anything with an Atheros chip! - Using epoxy or ... - changes the wireless behavior - to manage outdoor wear & tear - Conformal coating - Two options: 1) Keep existing access point / connection or 2) create an entirely new access point - Not best idea for repeater node to be primary access point Crowdfunding Campaign - WePay currently stands at $1933.00 - 0.7319 Bitcoins! - Combined, that's $2,004.01! Potential Local Services - Local copy of Wikipedia - Access to Archive.org - Tidepools interactive map Web Resources - WISP Forums: http://www.wispforum.net/ - Tin Can Texting - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hubski/tin-can-text-messages-without-th… ---------- Jenny http://jennyryan.net http://thepyre.org http://thevirtualcampfire.org http://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 ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` [View Less]

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Re: [Mesh] [sudo-discuss] Sudo-Mesh Social Club

by Tony Barreca

I think Tyger, but whether because of my name or the Blake poem I'm not sure! I must confess that, although cats have more flash, there is something eminently pragmatic about prehensile. On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Ray Lai <raymond.wm.lai(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Excellent etymological deduction, my good man Tony. Personally I think I > would be handier, play better piano and be a better lover if I had a > prehensile monkey tail grafted to the base of my spine. > > … [View More]If you had a choice of tails what would you choose? > > > Raymond Lai > Ice Cream Man > Atomic Ice Cream > Facebook.com/MotoAtomico > > On Jun 27, 2013, at 11:12 AM, Tony Barreca <tony.barreca(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > "xenomorphic tail grafting," eh? > > Let me guess: "Xeno" is "foreign" or "other" and "morphic" means it > pertains to "forms" (in approximately the Platonic sense), so is > "xenomorphic tail grafting" what you get when, say, you graft a dog's tail > onto a monkey? > > Thanks, > > > > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Ray Lai <raymond.wm.lai(a)gmail.com>wrote: > >> Very cool, Eddan! Thanks for sharing. >> >> Now my club for xenomorphic tail grafting aficionados can become a tax >> free reality! >> >> Raymond Lai >> Ice Cream Man >> Atomic Ice Cream >> Facebook.com/MotoAtomico >> >> On Jun 27, 2013, at 10:33 AM, Eddan Katz <eddan(a)clear.net> wrote: >> >> As my task from this past week for the Mesh group has been to do some >> more research on tax structure advantages and disadvantages - I wanted to >> share my excitement about 501(c)(7) with everyone. Social Clubs! >> Check it out -- >> http://www.irs.gov/Charities-&-Non-Profits/Other-Non-Profits/Social-Clubs >> . >> >> Examples of 501(c)(7) ---- >> >> - College social/academic fraternities and sororities >> - Country clubs >> - Amateur hunting, fishing, tennis, swimming and other sport clubs >> - Dinner clubs that provide a meeting place library, and dining room >> for members >> - Variety clubs >> - Hobby clubs >> - Homeowners or community associations whose primary function is to >> own and maintain recreational areas and facilities >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sudo-discuss mailing list >> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >> http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sudo-discuss mailing list >> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >> http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss >> >> > > > -- > Tony Barreca > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tonybarreca > Skype: tonybarreca > Twitter: tbarreca > Mobile: (510) 710-5864 > > -- Tony Barreca LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tonybarreca Skype: tonybarreca Twitter: tbarreca Mobile: (510) 710-5864 [View Less]

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Re: [Mesh] [sudo-discuss] Sudo-Mesh Social Club

by Tony Barreca

"xenomorphic tail grafting," eh? Let me guess: "Xeno" is "foreign" or "other" and "morphic" means it pertains to "forms" (in approximately the Platonic sense), so is "xenomorphic tail grafting" what you get when, say, you graft a dog's tail onto a monkey? Thanks, On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Ray Lai <raymond.wm.lai(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Very cool, Eddan! Thanks for sharing. > > Now my club for xenomorphic tail grafting aficionados can become a tax > free reality! &… [View More]

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Karma Wants To Make Peer-to-Peer Wi-Fi a Thing

by Chris Jefferies

They're still thinking in terms of "data allowance"... http://mashable.com/2013/06/23/karma-wifi-sharing/ -- Chris Jefferies 228 Stanford Ave Kensington, CA 94708 (510) 409-0003 - mobile

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Mesh networks and patents

by Miguel Vargas

Interesting article from EFF on mesh networks and patents. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/mesh-networking-good-overbroad-patent…

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EFF: Mesh Networking, Good. Overbroad Patents, Bad.

by Eddan Katz

another legal aspect of the sudo-mesh project is patent busting prior art research. ... https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/mesh-networking-good-overbroad-patent… > JUNE 21, 2013 | BY JULIE SAMUELS > Mesh Networking, Good. Overbroad Patents, Bad. Help Us Protect Mesh Networking. > Earlier this year, we announced that along with the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, we were challenging six patent applications that, if granted, could threaten the … [View More]development of 3D printing technology. We asked you—the community—for help, and your input was invaluable. We're still waiting to hear from the Patent Office on those applications, but our work is not done. We need your help again, this time to challenge dangerous patent applications that threaten mesh networking technology. > > Mesh networking allows users to form their own networks without a centralized infrastructure, making them inherently resistant to censorship, surveillance, and disruption. Given recent revelations showing widespread surveillance of the phone calls and online activities of innocent Americans and others around the globe, the development of mesh networks more important than ever. Governments and commercial actors have taken advantage of intermediaries as “weak links” in order to censor, surveil, and disrupt communications and social movements. Already in the United States, cell towers have been deactivated in response to planned protest, while activists in countries such as Egypt, Libya, and Syria have suffered massive blackouts that shut down all access from within the country to the wider Internet. Mesh networking technology can help activists fight back. > > Wireless Mesh Networks > > For more than a decade the open-source community has been developing networks that use multi-hop connectivity to bypass the current ISP-dominated model of Internet access. These Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have tremendous potential for enabling the free flow of information without exposure to censorship and monitoring. Because they lack a central access point, mesh networks are also harder to take down, as the removal of one node won’t terminate the entire network. And WMNs, by not relying on infrastructure provided by ISPs, can provide connectivity in areas where that infrastructure is inaccessible, damaged, or prohibitively expensive. > > The open source community has developed innovative tools and applications of mesh networking technology including the B.A.T.M.A.N. routing protocol developed by Freifunk, a system for internet access in remote areas of Afghanistan and Kenya (FabFi), and community controlled telephone systems in Nigeria, Columbia, Puerto Rico, South Africa, East Timor, and Brazil (VillageTelco). Harvard Law Professor Jonathan Zittrain and former FCC chairman Julius Genachowski recently advocated for the use of mesh networks to provide phone access during times of crisis when mobile networks are overloaded. > > The Problem > > Wireless Mesh Networking is still in its nascent stages, and the innovations and experimentation of the open source community are playing a vital role in advancing the technology. However, there has also been significant proprietary and military interest in the technology, and companies are seeking patents in many areas of WMN already explored by the open source community. We unfortunately know what can happen when overbroad patents get granted—the rise of patent trolls, lawsuits that can threaten growing businesses, and threats that target entire areas of technology. We don't want to see that happen to mesh networking. > > This is where you come in! > > We have identified several patent applications that we believe particularly threaten the free development of mesh networking technology. There is a danger that these patents, if granted, will lock up the basic mesh network infrastructure and restrict advancement of and access to the technology. > > We have been using the Patent Office’s new Preissuance Submissions procedure, which gives third parties an opportunity to tell patent examiners when they think a patent application shouldn't be granted. The procedure requires those third parties to submit publications predating the application that prove the ideas in the patent were not novel. > > Which is why we need your help. We are again partnering with Ask Patents so you can help us identify the best prior art to reign in these applications. While prior art for issued patents must date back many years, these are recently filed applications for which relatively recent publications may be helpful. Look at each “Request for Prior Art” we post to learn the exact priority date. > > Working together we can protect the mesh networking community from overbroad, illegitimate patents that threaten to stifle innovation and access to technologies that preserve personal freedoms. > > APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING WIRELESS MESH NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS > > ADAPTING EXTENSIBLE AUTHENTICATION PROTOCOL FOR LAYER 3 MESH NETWORKS > > MESH NETWORK GATEWAY AND SECURITY SYSTEM [View Less]

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Meeting Minutes 6/20

by Jenny Ryan

Reposted here for posterity: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/20_June_2013 June 20th Meeting Minutes = Attendees = * Chris J, Jenny, Max, Juul, Miguel, Eddan.com, Sam = Action Items = * Decide on name (some suggested options further down in the notes) * Research 501(c)x statuses: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Tax_Structure_Research * Put together a brochure / pamphlet * Website (contingent on name) * Splash page design * Glossary of terms (eg Fresnal zone, Hidden Node problem, etc) on the wiki - … [View More]MaxB began: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Terms = Misc Notes = * Community wireless vs. Municipal (gov run) or Corporate (eg Google Wifi) * Hidden Node Problem: ** Request-to-Send and Clear-to-Send ** TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_division_multiple_access *** Someone at Noisebridge has worked on this, could maybe help port from FreeBSD to Linux? =Checking out the hardware!= ** Don't power them up without the antennas!! ** Need adapters for the external antennas to bullets ** AirGrids can only run on 5.2V max, meant to run off USB ** NanoBridges and AirGrids are 5GHz and will serve as the rooftop backbone of the mesh. ** PicoStations are the street-level routers = Crowdfunding Campaign = * Raised over $1600 in one week! Awesome! * Legal structure of accepting donations ** Very good accounting * Should investigate 501(c)4 ** Talk to folks at the SELC, recommended 501(c)7 * Talking to Noisebridge and SchoolFactory in the next week or two about umbrella-ing under their 501(c)3 = Survey Responses = * FILL IN * 2/3 like the current logo = Name Suggestions = * Mycelium * Wicelium * Sudo Mesh * Meta Mesh * Root Net * Super Web * The Trunk * Hive 10 * Orga Net * Open and Notorious * Sudo Net * Oakland Wireless Network (OWN) * Oakland Community-Organized Resilient Network (OCORN) * Oakland Community Network = Marketing Discussion = * Sudo meant to reflect empowerment to fix it or make it yourself ** Include a brief definition of SUDO at the bottom of marketing materials * 'FREE WIFI' sign and/or stickers for the mesh * Adopt-A-Picostation * Collate accessories for mounting and running a node and link to online marketplaces on the site = Folks to reach out to = * Internet Archive and Brewster * Kapor Foundation = Report Backs = * Still need to make a protocol decision * Inventory Tracking! Mycelia Zero should be completed by next week: Decentralized network of tools/objects, projects and people/skills - Access control (choose to share) ** Need a weather-resistant sticker or tagging system - RFIDs? ** MyAssetTag.com - aluminum matte tags - available very tiny (0.25" x 1") in batches of 100 for $32 ** 'Property Of' stamps / tattoos to discourage theft * OpenOakland feedback: ** Someone has a roof in the hills with a view of the airport (and thus LOL) = Outreach Strategy = * Origin of the outdoor mesh could be LOL/SOL/Cycles Bikery * Would be easier to connect W Oakland * We could split the hardware 50/50 between West and East Oakland, then run a campaign to reach across the divides in Oakland to connect the two meshes! * Reach up to Richmond to Internet Archive's awesome node! = Mounting Solutions = * Flower pots! (with plants that won't obstruct!) * Birdhouses * On the eve of the rooftop outside would be ideal * Flags (American or Pirate version) = Firmware = * Directing network traffic is the major technical challenge * Encourage participants to use BitTorrent clients that support uTP (microtorrent protocol) * Should have two options: 1. People replace their existing access point (which they donate to us) with a PicoStation 2. People keep their existing access point and add the PicoStation to their setup, which runs off their router ** Folks can also host a rooftop node * Focus on aesthetic unobstrusiveness * Set up a way to split the network into several access points: back channel (for the mesh nodes to connect to eachother), open channel (for public connecting) and private channel (for folks in house/etc, more bandwidth, can be secured with password, etc) * Things to add to the firmware: ** Privoxy! Non-caching web proxy for block "obnoxious internet junk" ** Ghostery (protect from tracking) ** Adblock (allow for easy opt-in) * Put passwords on the PoE adapters and let people maintain their own node's level of privacy, upgrades, etc = Useful Anecdotes = * Internet Archive has created a super node up in Richmond (~15km from here) * Chris has used a dish and 4ft antenna like ours and with line of sight reached up to 2 miles * Chris has created a router with an xbee radio (cheaper, takes less power) hooked up to the serial port to take in different kinds of sensor data ** Air quality egg ** Router w/ xbee unit for additional cost = Needs = * Antennas towers ** Telescoping flagpoles! (suggested by Seattle Meshnet) - up to 20ft, available Harbor Freight for $50 * Wooden blocks with hinges to direct the Picos * Ubiquiti sector antennas as major backbone points (2 x 2 x) - up to 40 subscribers, with dishes pointing the signal outward in all directions = Research Assignment = Homework Assignment: Research a Mesh Project that has succeeded or failed * Week 1: Marc * Week 2: Jenny * Week 3: Chris * August: Eddan = Web Resources = * RadioLabs (antennas and such): http://www.radiolabs.com/ * CeroWRT - solving the issue of bufferbloat in OpenWRT: http://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/cerowrt * BISmark (detect ISP issues and home traffic): http://projectbismark.net/ * MyAssetTag.com (for tagging outdoor routers with barcodes): http://myassettag.com Oh yeah, we're checking out hardware for testing here: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Checkouts ~mesh the planet!~ Jenny http://jennyryan.net http://thepyre.org http://thevirtualcampfire.org http://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. 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Node map!

by Marc Juul

I set up a mapping application so we can start mapping out potential nodes. If you add a node, please put information about whether we'd have access to put a node node on the roof or mount it on the side of the building, or only inside the building, and put your name so we know who to talk to about each node. http://meshmap.sudoroom.org/

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Meeting tonight!

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Hi everyone. Meeting tonight is 8:30 as always. On the agenda is: * Introductions and icebreaker. * Have a look at the hardware we bought. Intro for less technical folks. * State of the crowdfunding campaign and how to proceed. * Follow up on last weeks agenda items and turning them into action items. * -end of meeting- work on agenda items for as long as people want. ** I'm specifically interested in getting building our firmware, so if anyone want to join me for a firmware hacking \o/ … [View More]

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Name and logo discussion and brainstorm

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Hi. I wanted to get the name and logo discussion off the ground. First a bit of history as i understand it: In 2009 Mark Burdett (and others) started an east bay community mesh networking project called 510pen. It had several nodes in Oakland (maybe 20+), and still has a few active nodes. The routers used were open-mesh.com routers, which come pre-configured for mesh. 510pen applied for some decent amount of funding (Mark can elaborate) but did not get it. Over time the project stagnated and … [View More]

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