Hello Sudo Mesh friends,
We decided to make every first Sudo Mesh meeting of the month a laid back hang out / newcomers' night. Instead of doing admin-planning-all-the-time, we wanted to make space to hang out over snacks and drinks. It's also a great time to welcome new folks who are interested in the project and want an informal setting to get to know what we're about.
* WHEN: 7:30 – 9:00 PM First Tuesdays of the month
* WHERE: Omni Commons Mezzanine (the area right above the main …
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* OPTIONAL THINGS TO BRING: A laptop. Food or drinks to share.
We also FINALLY mounted our gear on the Internet Archive tower in Richmond! We got a 5Ghz airFiber up on their tower, hooked up to a server we placed in one of their racks down below. We are on our way to get a few gigs of donated bandwidth from the Archive. Woohoo! Huge thanks to everyone who contributed to make that happen. This Tuesday will also be an opportunity to celebrate that. :D
Event on Omni calendar: https://omnicommons.org/calendar/events/sudo-mesh-hang-out-newcomers-night
Whether you haven't been around in a while or it's your first time, we'd love to see you! So come by, say hi, and hang out.
cheers,
Mai
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Today's Topics/Projects:
1. BYOI Office Hours Today@Sudoroom 1pm - 5pm (Null)
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-Look for the PoE Injectors for the Richmond Tower AirFiber
-Do more testing on the exit node for the Richmond Tower
-Try and fix the Hurricane Electric Exit Node Server
-Clean out the top of the stairs leading into the sudomesh cage
-Put labels on equipment that's already been inventoried.
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[View More]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 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.
Null
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Heyo!
Last Sunday, six of us showed up to the Project Proposal Party! We ate snacks, stuck sticky-notes to monitors (see below), chatted about projects we were interested in proposing, and organized our thoughts in a pad (also see below).
I thought it was an effective way to gather a range of input, and to hear what's on people's minds--what their interests and priorities are at this moment in time.
So we're doing it again! If you want to get feedback on a proposal idea, come by sudoroom this …
[View More]Sunday from 1-3pm. If you can't make it to that region of spacetime, but you still want to be heard on Sunday, feel free to e-mail me your ideas, and I'll read them to whoever shows up.
I'll say it again because I think it's important: Be creative and exploratory! Let's not be afraid about presenting proposals that get rejected, or that it turns out nobody actually wants to do. That's a really important part of the process.
Sincerely looking forward!
--Benny
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'''People's Open Net Project Proposal Party' 13 January 2019''
=== Contents ===
Guideline for making project proposals (https://www.loomio.org/d/t96DoNbJ/what-should-a-project-proposal-look-like-…)
The proposal process: https://www.loomio.org/p/fYI1OUFW/project-proposal-process-v1
Tuesday's discussion about bounties, proposals, and other ways to focus on key goals this year (https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/08_January_2019#Discussion_Item:_Setting_up_…)
=== Note ===
Be creative and exploratory! Let's not be afraid about presenting proposals that get rejected, or that it turns out nobody actually wants to do. That's a really important part of the process.
=== Proposal Components ===
* Scope - What problem is this solving? What is the tangible solution being implemented?
* Timeline - How long will it take? (Start date, end date, and any other milestones.)
* Budget - What are the material and labor costs?
* Risks - Are there any potential blockers on progress? (E.g. is research required?)
* Outcomes / reporting requirements - What are the deliverables due at project end date?
* Collaborators - Who is responsible for completing the work?
* Accountability buddy / peer advisor - Who will check in with the collaborators and help them stay on track?
== Proposal Process Improvements ==
* Use a pad (this one?) to track ideas.
* If you want to elevate an idea to a proposal, fill out the above template and throw it into Loomio.
* Notify the appropriate channels (mailing list and rocket.chat) that a proposal has been proposed.
* If the proposal clears, create a card for it in Internal Logistics / Bureaucracy / Brainstorms with the Funded label (https://trello.com/b/LzVQlW3X/internal-logistics-bureaucracy-brainstorms)
== Categories of work we do ==
* Outreach
** Education
** Media: Videos
** Materials: Brochures
** Events
** Art grants
* Maintenance
** Hardware
** Software
* Core Operations
** Accounting / Bookkeeping / State Filings
** Legal / Insurance
** Documentation
** Fundraising
* Network Growth
** Uplinks/bandwidth: Internet Archive, Paxio, Monkeybrains (?)
** Node mounts
* New Development
** Calyx nodes
** App Layer
== Projects ==
* Votes (and participants)
** M = Mai
** P = Pam
** S = Seth
** E = Ben
** Y = Benny
** T = Tyler
* Instructional sticker to attach to nodes (seth) - PSEM
** Design + reliable print sourcing - T
** Note: there was work done on this a year ago: https://trello.com/c/W6uAEicR/13-node-stickers-for-denoting-ports-and-print…
*** jnny: and actually more recently than that: https://github.com/sudomesh/propaganda/commit/23ba8b78f8d69e7fc8405e1f60900…
** Private network name/password, admin name/password, mesh IP, our contact info (email)
* Neighbor/community outreach Brochure (mai) - TSPM
* Officers' Insurance (mai) - EYM
** insurance docs: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1evIojKxjyDb2FuJH0wuO9tZaY3zUIn44
** also need General Liability
* CALYX mesh-in-a-box (solar) (juul/jnny) - YPE
* Maintain/improve node flashing process - SM
** Create node flashing walkthrough for Windows PCs
* Rebooting/Fixing Hurricane Electric Exit Node (eenblam) - EM
** $X to visit
** $X + Y to also deal with extended issue
** Post mortem required
* Organizing / cleaning / updating the wiki, the propaganda repo, the website, the trello - YM
* Internet Archive Exitnode - P.
* Internet Archive Uplink- SY
* Extend and document community outreach process - E
** Who do we talk to?
** Ask what their needs are
** Update our goals if applicable
* Fundraising
** Monthly donation drive through Patreon
** Grant applications
** Fundraising docs: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B4_Q7DQvNFT-SHRjd2I0QU02bEE
* Paxio Uplink
* What Jenny does [jnny: haha. bureaucracy-wrangling]
** Tax reporting and filing (benny)
*** 990s, 199s, RRF-1s, Business Tax Exemption, 1099s, SI-100s, End-of-Year Financial Reports, Annual & Projected budget
** Write checks to people
** Income and Expense tracking
* Design and POC of non-penetrating roof mounts (design and documentation) - T
*Internal help ticketing system? (C-desk/spiceworks)? --T
* Bring Nico back to facilitate a mapping workshop - Y
** Mapping what areas need connectivity
** jnny: East Oakland Collective is starting to do neighborhood asset-mapping workshops. Connect w/ Candice
* Privacy + security on the mesh pamphlet - T
*Backhaul network at Oakland fire stations for city wide network services? --T
* Update node tracking + key distro strategy
** To account for auto conf
** Management Way for people who want to give others/us admin privileges to do so
== General Ideas ==
* How to make the org more inclusive to women QTPOC
* Media/education budget
** Videos/Worskhops - P
** Classes on network basics?
* Community mesh art grant/residency - PY
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Hallo!
Following our work towards a guideline for making project proposals (https://www.loomio.org/d/t96DoNbJ/what-should-a-project-proposal-look-like-…), and last Tuesday's discussion (https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/08_January_2019#Discussion_Item:_Setting_up_…) about bounties, proposals, and other ways to focus on key goals this year, let's draft some project proposals!
If you want to get and give feedback on proposal ideas, or you just want company while you write, come by sudoroom this …
[View More]Sunday from 1-3pm* and we'll workshop proposals together.
Please come with specific proposals in mind (or, even better, in hand!) I think we'll get the best breadth and depth of proposals if we start from a bunch of different ideas and mix & match & remix, rather than starting from scratch as a group.
Here's a reminder of all the parts of a proposal:
Scope - What problem is this solving? What is the tangible solution being implemented?
Timeline - How long will it take? (Start date, end date, and any other milestones.)
Budget - What are the material and labor costs?
Risks - Are there any potential blockers on progress? (E.g. is research required?)
Outcomes / reporting requirements - What are the deliverables due at project end date?
Collaborators - Who is responsible for completing the work?
Accountability buddy / peer advisor - Who will check in with the collaborators and help them stay on track?
Be creative and exploratory! As far as I know, this will be sudomesh's first time organizing work with budgeted proposals, so I think it's safe to say that we don't know what we're doing here :) So let's not be afraid about presenting proposals that get rejected, or that it turns out nobody actually wants to do. That's a really important part of the process.
By the end, I expect we'll have a bunch of good proposals to bring to next Tuesday's meeting!
Hope to see ya Sunday.
--Benny
* We're overlapping with normal office hours, which will still occur at the normal time. We can move to a different room if we feel like it.
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You can see last week's Sudo Mesh meeting minutes here: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/11_December_2018 (https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/11_December_2018)
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'''People's Open Network Weekly Meeting - 11 December 2018 7:30pm-9pm'''
* 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)
* Discussion: Oakland Comms Choice Language (15 …
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* Action Items (5 mins)
* Breakout Groups
=== Introductions ===
Introduce yourself: Name; Preferred Pronoun; Icebreaker Response; BRIEF Announcements
* Icebreaker question:
* Eve - she - DuckDuckGo privacy extensions
* Benny - he - AdBlocker, TreeStyleTabs or sthg?
* Scott - he - AdBlocker
* seth - he/they-cookies autodelete
* Gautam - he - Privacy Badger
* Steven - he - Tabs Suspender
* robb - he - AdBlock, NoScript, HTTPS
* jenny - she/her - AdBlock, NoScript, HTTPS, lastpass, zotero
* marc - he - put question as trying to make browser less trackable. had too many extensions. . Privacy Possum, written by a sudomesher
* yar - she - not to be a downer but adding privacy extensions actually makes you more trackable bc of your fingerprint, better is to integrat these upstream into firefox. could run tor, but actually tbh running internet explorer in a win10 VM might be your best route
* jehan - he - adblock. tried Brave, but isn't my default for reasons
* lesley - wtvr she/they - adblock+, ..block origin
* doyouhaveamirror - we/us - adblock+
* mai-remote - she/they - privacy badger, httpseverywhere, treestyletabs (great for tabs addicts...)
* null-remote - he/him - tree-style tabs ublock origin
* blake - n/a - wrote privacypossum, have a job now so havent worked on it so much
=== Meeting Roles ===
* Facilitator/s: scott
* Stacktaker: benny
* Notetaker/s: lesley jenny
** URL of this pad: https://peoplesopen.net/notes
== Check in on previous action items ==
Check previous meeting minutes at https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Minutes and past action items below:
* ewaste pickup (breakout session after meeting)
** CiviCorps form: http://www.civicorpsrecycling.org/e-waste-pick-request-form/ (company is Omni Commons, anyone can submit)
* jehan on insurance stuff: he and ben worked on this a few weeks ago. if we have exposure we dont tell them about (eg going on roofs) can make us default lost our policy. think we have to state we go on roofs. Was going to follow up with NCIA and see how we can characterize it and what that would do to the price of insurance. Also, are there possibilities like having people sign waivers?
** if it's extremely expensive need to decide if it's worth the risk
**Scott - officers could be disallowed from going on roofs
** Jenny - other option is spin up LLC that does installations specifically
* put proposal to fund participation in Nonprofit Democracy Network Gathering (mai)
** mai: decided to hold off on putting this proposal on Loomio bc I needed to apply and I don't even know yet if we'll be accepted (and therefore have to pay). Also for expenditures < $2000 that can go to the Accounting WG anyway.
* review project proposal process (next week) - all
** proposal process discussion: https://www.loomio.org/p/YAXhzclP/project-proposal-process-v2
* schedule holiday party (maybe the 15th? - Loomio? could someone take this on?
** jnny: ballroom is utterly free w/ no pending requests for the 14th, free after 2pm the 15th, free until 430pm Sunday the 16th (4:30pm setup for Liberated Lens' "Best of the [Film] Fest" event - +100 solidarity
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Today's Topics:
1. BYOI Office Hours Sudoroom 1pm - 4pm (Null)
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I'll be doing inventory of the cage, there will be a few of us come with questions(maybe I can answer em) or just to hang.
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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 …
[View More]friendly 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.
-Null
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You can see last week's minutes below or online here: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/27_November_2018 (https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/27_November_2018)
'''People's Open Network Weekly Meeting - 27 November 2018 7:30pm-9pm'''
* 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)
* Action Items (5 mins)
* Breakout Groups
=== …
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Introduce yourself: Name; Preferred Pronoun; Icebreaker Response; BRIEF Announcements
* Icebreaker question: What brings you here?
* benny - he/they, been involved since Feb, works on various things such as posters, is going to pick up his interview project again
* stephen - friend of benny's - visiting to work with cal fire - how do you have open mesh networks, phone-to-phone, especially in evacuation situations
* colin - he/him - interesting project, doesn't have a lot of bandwidth but is interested in organizing, etc.
* stephen - he/him - interested in wireless communications & embedded software
* andre - he/him - interested in distributed systems, specifically databases
* null - he/him - help build the gap between tech in major isps & what we do
* mai - she/they - involved with organzing, node mounts, byoi events. Interested in this because of digital rights, interested in solidarity economy
* amanda - she/her - excited about mesh networking on broader scale, for homeless, etc.
* lesley - been involved since ~2013 - when i was a kid i had really restricted internet access because of religious reasons - it was really controlled - i remember how big of a difference it made for me to have access to that information, and want to make this happen for others - did some research with marc on sunday and we're planning to mount some 60GHz equipment on rooftops in berkeley
* juul - he/him - the bart train (i'm omw)
* remote-jnny - she/her - visiting family on east coast and this is errybody else's bedtime, hooray! also mesh the planet.
=== Meeting Roles ===
* Facilitator/s: mai
* Stacktaker: benny
* Notetaker/s: lesley
** URL of this pad: https://peoplesopen.net/notes
=== Announcements ===
* Hurricane Electric Carrier Networking Event: http://milldampr.com/hurricane-electric-carrier-networking-event/
* German router regulations / stamp of approval in progress:
** https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/BSI/Publikationen/Technisch…
** From section 4.2:
The router MAY allow the installation of unsigned firmware (i.e. custom firmware) IF a meaningful warning message has been
shown to the authenticated end-userand the end-user accepts the installation of the unsigned firmware.
** The CCC being critical: https://www.golem.de/news/bsi-richtlinie-ccc-und-openwrt-kritisieren-router…
* consider heading to oak city council mtg tonight - it's a doozy..
* you can donate ur spange to the 'winterizing omni' budget and we can get the furnace working again: https://www.facebook.com/donate/720926284946382/
== Check in on previous action items ==
Check previous meeting minutes at https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Minutes and past action items below:
* Contact potential node in East Bay Hills (deep east) (jenny)
** gah, this wuz sitting in drafts >_< - sent
* Follow up w/ paxio (juul)
** haven't heard back yet
* Schedule a meeting to reflect on BYOI feedback?
** mai - let's just talk about it today
* null - review decision making guides
* Measure power output of our gear (server + switch for internet archive)
** done w/ juul and null (180W during boot-up, 160W during `stress --cpu 2, server was between 120 and 140`)
** time to try to schedule an install?
*** benny will check with juul if we're ready
== Purchase requests ==
* 60 Ghz gear
* Archive storage and web server for radiowitness.io
** radiowitness is a system that listens to all police communication using a software defined radio, logs everything with a timestamp and makes it publicly available
** radiowitness was previously deployed in oakland and texas but the way it was written required a very beefy and power hungry computer to run it 24/7 + the storage got expensive
** radiowitness is currently down but the creator (an old sudo room and sudo mesh member) wants to bring it back
** I (juul) offered that we could potentially host the data (and possibly the web app as well)
** For two cities it was growing by ~500 GB per year. The idea is to add more cities.
** I propose we put the multi-harddrive-bay storage server we already have at Internet Archive and buy the following:
** 3x 4 TB internal harddrives at $125 each for an 8 TB raid 5 that we can grow to 36 TB later
** 1x 8 TB external archive harddrive at $150 for offline backup. We can run the offline backup each Tuesday evening during the meeting.
* jnny: plz use https://peoplesopen.net/buystuff - include direct links to items
== 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-…
* lesley: juul got a back of 60 GHz antenna, for south of Cal campus. We were gonna use 24 GHz for the Richmond Tower link, shouldn't we just use the 60 GHz antenna since that allows a greater transfer of bandwidth? Is it a power requirement?
* juul: Was told by someone who was at DevSummit to use the equipment/bandwidth that Calyx buys wholesale for Sprint 4G, to get cheaper bandwidth -- $200/year vs. $400/year (for Calyx)
** Mobile Citizen, he mentioned - https://mobilecitizen.org/
=== Node Mounts & Outreach ===
Node Mounts Trello: https://trello.com/invite/b/DtzngKaM/49e1c21fc9da199fcdeceb8623b5117a/node-…
* benny: Met someone that lives next to Lesley near the Benvenue location. Will connect Lesley with them.
* lesley: Seems like a good lead since we can't put that much equipment at Jeff's place at Benvenue. Someone from BYOI thought that they might have LoS to us.
* jnny: leads i got from the mapping station include a southeast alameda landlord, CalState East Bay contact, and someone with potential LoS to Paxio from the east (past Ed's & slightly north)
=== Communications & Events ===
Comms Trello: https://trello.com/invite/b/f3ugMPNU/94033ee6c2cef93fc1b1637b727c902a/sudo-… // Events Trello: https://trello.com/invite/b/Y3XfDK85/2b6fcb4fa92788609692a53a96fb4614/peopl…
* jnny: some notes from devsummit: https://peoplesopen.net/pad/p/devsummit
** full notes documented on the wiki: https://devsummit.aspirationtech.org/index.php?title=2018_Agenda
==== BYOI Reflection Time ====
https://peoplesopen.net/pad/p/byoi
=== Internal Logistics / Finance ===
Internal Logistics & Bureaucracy Trello: https://trello.com/invite/b/LzVQlW3X/1bb8bd543c8633688175365d2554c2c2/inter…
* mai: Accounting WG did not meet today, maybe we will later this month!
* jnny: been working on updating budget: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QJetruKfHrO5bpaLDk_smXYpLSvGlzytda_…
== Next Sunday ==
We host office hours every Sunday from 1-3pm in Sudo Room, and often arrange a rooftop node mount.
* null will be here inventorying! eve will come if she can!
* To sign up to bottomline, fill in your name here: https://ethercalc.org/byoi_office_hours
* Ongoing node mounting spreadsheet is located at: https://peoplesopen.net/sundays
* Notes from this past Sunday's session:
* calyx spot @ HDV?
== Action Items ==
* add everyone who signed up at the BYOI to the PON newsletter list, and let them know about the mesh mailing list (benny)
* encourage people to submit a proposal for $ and add to next's week agenda (mai)
* post re: richmond tower link on SF Chalkboard (mai)
* double check w/ juul then send e-mail to jonah to schedule server install (benny)
* add people who signed up at BYOI to email list (benny)
* talk to the people that calyx gets internet from
* implement calyx hotspot @ the housing & dignity village! - jenny / juul? mux? & village building crew
** currently waiting on word back from judge re: permanent injunction
== Breakout Groups ==
At the end of the meeting, break out into small groups to hack on or discuss specific topics.
*
== Last Meeting Notes ==
* https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/20_November_2018
== End of Meeting ==
* please archive these meeting notes by copying the entire pad contents onto the sudomesh wiki with the correct date format: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/DD_MONTH_YYYY
* 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
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Hello All,
I cannot go in details here, because it is not the proper place, besides
that I still don't know why; but I was kicked out of the group by the
person that I went to join, and later on other two members that came to
join the group were asked to leave as well. In our last days the three that
got kicked out worked together and it was for the best. We bonded and we
became friends, brainstorming and decision making was way easier,
horizontal.
We, the original group of four, found two …
[View More]asylum seekers in Mazatlan.
After that two of us, an Italian gay person and myself, supported the
asylum seekers all the way to Tijuana. While the two others the group flew
from Mazatlan to Tijuana.
One of the asylum seekers, man in his 40s, had an accident the day before
about 1pm. He tried to aboard a cargo train while in movement. He hit his
face against the train, and was ejected back out to he ground, where as he
said, "went into sleep really quickly" until in the dark of the night when
he was feeling cold. At that time he just dragged himself away from the
railroad tracks to avoid potential incoming trains, to just to curl and
continue sleeping again until the morning when the sun was too hot. A few
hours later we found him. Cuts on his face and hands.
In the same railroad area, among train containers, there was a 16 years old
and he also was supported.
Both of them are now in Tijuana. The kid is in a safe place, with shelter
and food, wiht moms and kids, and already got a number enlisting himself
for asylum. -I lost contact with the man. But last thing I know is that he
has a place where to sleep and eat with the person that kicked me out of
the group. I hope he is okay. Both were given new clothes, and shoes while
in Mazatlan. The funds came from donations like yours. Thank you for that.
We didn't help tons of people, we helped only two.
At the beginning when I was in Tlaquepaque, Jalisco I did some short
interviews and one of them was with Vivian
https://asylumseekerscaravan.org/2018/11/20/2018-11-18-vivian-a-computer-te…
which we kept in touch. At the time, we couldn't help them. But at least we
have been on WhatsApp. Yesterday latest news, they were in Mexicali for a
few days already and has not eaten, he/she said was hungry. And that a bus
was living tomorrow to Tijuana, but for only the ones that can afford the
ticket. I sent some money, but they was not able to pick it up, the local
store asked for Mexican Electoral ID. So, we lost, 1000 pesos. I had sent
enough for Vivian and partner, and some change. I have to say that I didn't
ask for money to support my flight ticket to Jalisco. And my expenses
there, were covered by donations that my new gay friend had received.
During the trip up north Mexico, I was in contact with another small group
that was made up of three mom, two husbands, four children (including a
baby that was born in Puebla, after jumps of the truck sent the mom to the
hospital).
https://asylumseekerscaravan.org/2018/11/24/2018-11-23-ten-days-old-baby-th…
There are not public videos of the two we helped directly, because they
wanted it private. They allow me to interview them when we arrived to
Tijuana, for me to remember them.But they are okay with some photos in my
facebook account, you may see them there.
Thank you to all of you that supported with moral encouragement, and some
that donated. If you feel that you want to donate, because what I lived and
experienced and the work I saw done today I recommend
https://www.facebook.com/ActivateLabs/ donation point:
https://www.facebook.com/donate/485476331860297/
The donate button at https://asylumseekerscaravan.org already reflects this
new donation point.
Many thanks to all of you, <3!
Daniel
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Sorry Seth, I just saw this email. I can still come down if it would be
useful.
>>>> 1. BYOI Office Hours Tomorrow@Sudoroom 1ish - 4ish (Seth Carolina)
> >>>>
> >>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>> I'll be at the office tomorrow possibly doing inventory of the cage.
> > Come over with questions(maybe I can answer em) or
> just to hang.
> >>>> …
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Some of us had recently been talking about Layer 2 vs. Layer 3 roaming.
Well, it looks like HTTP/3 is basically a TCP replacement on top of UDP,
and it allows a connection to continue between IP address changes by using
a per-connection UUID.
https://blog.erratasec.com/2018/11/some-notes-about-http3.html
We can expect this to be implemented, at the very least, in the most
popular web browsers but possible other programs as well.
This could really mitigate the issues with non-roaming capable …
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networks.
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marc/juul
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Hello all,
A really quick update. For more deets, please check:
https://asylumseekerscaravan.org.
As Jessie had mentioned in a couple occasions, things there with the
caravan can change from minute to minute. Well, the ticket from Mexico City
had to changed for Guadalajara, and I am leaving tonight 11:20pm.
One of the alerting things yesterday, is that a group of folks that went
ahead in two buses, not supported by us have to clarify this, were stopped
in Agua Prieta, Hermosillo. Based on a …
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WhatsApp audio convo from one of the asylum seekers, and a report from
Pueblo Sin Fronteras, two busses were stopped about 11pm on the night of
the 15th. A child and a woman were hurt but Mexican authorities when they
were forcefully were taken out the bus. They asylum seekers were scared
because they were not being taken to any oficial facility and were just
driven around for hours. The asylum seeker reporting at the time that
things were happening said her phone was very low in charge.
The Mexican authorities involved in this scary stop and arrest were the
Mexican Immigration, and Judicial Police. According to one of the asylum
seekers, at the moment of the arrest, middle of the night, some asylum
seekers escaped. But, as things were developing, the authorities realized
that they were getting themselves in a big trouble because there has been a
judicial order (Amparo 16-18) given by judge, Jonathan Bass Herrera from a
Court in Mexico City and notified to all authorities in the country, that
the busses should not be stopped and the asylum seekers be let pass.
Eventually all (about 60) were let go, some went to a refuge, and yesterday
at about 5am they continue their journey to Tijuana.
Also, as seen in the video, a child was with fever and the authorities were
told, but as woman says, the Mexican Immigration didn't care and ignored
them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=ED9QgsWs3JE
Thank you to all of you for your moral support, and for your donations. To
donate: https://rally.org/asylumseekerscaravan
Special thanks to Noisebridge <https://noisebridge.net> for directly
assisting me during my preparation for this trip.Thanks Silver, thanks
Steve, and others there. Solidarity!
Daniel
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Hello All, this a very quick update.
* Donation Status - https://rally.org/asylumseekerscaravan
* New Website - https://asylumseekerscaravan.org/
* Caravan and Jessie's whereabouts.
* Goal Status
* I am going in.
*Donation Status*, out current goal is 15K and so far we have close to 6k.
Please donate and you haven't done it. The website it is here:
https://rally.org/asylumseekerscaravan
*New Website*, this past Sunday I went to the Aaron Swartz Day event at the
Internet Archive in SF. While …
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also I met more officially Steve Phillips from Noisebridge. Anyhow, to make
the story short, since I have to go sleep, and wake up early for work,
Steve kindly volunteered to help our group to migrate our just plain html
static website to a WorkPress type, where the public and others group
members can also add content.
Steve and I did an all nighter right after the Aaron's event, working all
night at Noisebridge and going home about 8am. Similar hacker schedule
followed the next two night, which ended in our nice website. Many thanks
Steve. Muy agradecido.
*Jessie* followed the caravan from Mexico City to Queretaro, and then she
returned to Mexico City when she learned that more asylum seekers were
coming. Jessie, been talking and interviewing and learning more about the
situation.
T*he Goal*, which we are very laser focus, is as mentioned on my previous
email and as the donation site mentions, is to provide transportation to as
many we can to women, children, and LGBTQ vulnerable folks. And for what we
have collected in donation, we are about to make the first trip from Mexico
City to Tijuana. As Jessie reports, the situation there is very fluid, so
not only things change moment to moment, but also she has to be very
patience and wait for their choices. But, again, the first trip is this
Sunday. *This weekend.* And the money that we have is only allowing about
60 people. We could offer more, if more folks would donate. The road I have
taken many years ago, and there a very long one, and empty areas and
distance town in between.
Circling back to Jessie, in a way, because she is by herself, someone else
(I am not sure if I can mention his name here) is coming over this
Saturday. And, about half hour ago or so I bought a flight ticket to go
help them both. Three of us will go with asylum seekers all the way to
Tijuana. I am scheduled to arrive to Mexico City on Saturday morning. *I
am going in, *and my intention is to team up with the other two in this
task, and at the same time try to document the trip photographing. I am not
sure how long I am going to be there, but the most that I can push it is
until Dec 8. I should be uploading photos at my flickr account, so if you
want to help spread the word, feel free to use those photos, they are
intended to be here: https://flickr.com/danielarauz/sets, as often as it
will possible.
Please, if you haven't donate, please do. We really are using every single
cent to support those in need.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GB4sbZ9BtA
Also here:
https://asylumseekerscaravan.org/2018/11/14/2018-11-10-jessie-live-heart-br…
Thank you, and sinceramente muchas gracias de antemano for your time and
donations.
Daniel
I am available via Signal, Wire, WhatsApp at: 415.336.9143.
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Hello All!
If you are interested on reading, watching videos and photos about the
Asylum Seekers Caravan, uncensored reports, please visit Jessie's Facebook
page at: https://www.facebook.com/jessie.sandoval. The reports are also
being logged here: https://asylumseekerscaravan.org.
Who is Jessie Sandoval? Jessie is a sister in struggle from Nicaragua, that
I met and worked with during Occupy. She went to Mexico a couple days ago
in support of the Asylum Seekers sisters and brothers, and she …
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sending reports on her Facebook account.
Her writing is blant, poetic, unapologetic, etc. I like her writing.
Before I go.. a quote from one her post from last night.
"
*I am not sleeping on cold hard earth, after traveling north for a month.**And
yet, there's been no burning, no breaking by this migrant community*"
~Jessie Sandoval Mexico City - 2018-11-07
Thank you in advance for any support to my/our brown folks.
I have Brown blood.
Daniel
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You can see last night's minutes below or online here: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/06_November_2018 (https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/06_November_2018)
'''People's Open Network Weekly Meeting - 6 November 2018 7:30pm-9pm'''
* 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: Mobile Calyx Node for The Village (15 mins)
*…
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* Action Items (5 mins)
* Breakout Groups
=== Introductions ===
Introduce yourself: Name; Preferred Pronoun; Icebreaker Response; BRIEF Announcements
* Icebreaker question: Favorite artist? Visual, musical, otherwise
* null - him/her - I like Infected Mushroom
** have u heard of Unwashed Tomato? ;D https://www.discogs.com/artist/1329175-Unwashed-Tomato
* marc - he/him - the author of The Gods Are Bastards
* lesley - pretty much anything or she/they - I really like artists whose work you can identify from across the room. Odilon Redon, Egon Schiele, Davinci
* ben - he/they - Restricting scope to favorite webcomic. Zach Morrison - paranatural.net Middle-school kids go on adventures with goofy spirits and stuff
* felix - he/him - Thomas Kling; German poet who does language installations
* scott - any are fine - Minna Sundberg http://www.minnasundberg.fi/
* seth - he/they - julian oliver
* Mai- she/they - Doesn't like rockstar artists and having to know the personality behind art but like internet mash-ups and general memery art that emerges on the internet. Also would say Aphex Twin.
* jehan - he/him - Niac (niac.org), which I'll be going over with you today!
** ballot Benny - greetings from the polls! 4 minutes left to vote go go go go go go
=== Meeting Roles ===
* Facilitator/s: ben
* Stacktaker:
* Notetaker/s: lesley, ben
** URL of this pad: https://peoplesopen.net/notes
=== Proposals ===
== Proposal: Mobile Calyx Node for The Village ==
Proposal to spend ~$900~1000 on a mobile Calyx node to be first deployed at the new Village site near Coliseum for one year. Will be returned once we establish line of sight to a neighbor open to sharing their bandwidth (or reach it via Paxio link to the hills) and thus reusable for future actions / temp locations.
* https://github.com/sudomesh/projects/blob/master/proposals/mobilenode.md
* https://peoplesopen.net/pad/p/villagewifi
Idea: get a box, put a thing in it with WiFi, 4G, a battery, and a solar panel.
* 4G via Calyx membership - 400/year + 100 initial equipment fee
** scott - will they waive equipment fee if we're providing our own?
* Put it up at the village. If it works well, then we start raising funds. Every time we get enough, we throw together another one and deploy it where there's high need.
** Spread with mesh routers once one is up.
** marc - during december, not that much sun - so running solar power might not work during this time - peak power usage is above 12 watts, average might be less than 8 watts. Would need 100 watt solar power to run it 24/7. Hard to mount on tall pole with 100 watt panel. Maybe have smaller panel lower. Issue is that it might get stolen.
* Total cost would be around - 400
**modem - 125
** altogether - 1000 for up front equipment and first year
** Jehan - Mesh ++ makes something like this, but for 3000 - maybe they would sponsor us with one of their units.
** Ben - 4G?
** Jehan - not sure.
** Mai - we should work out the logistics before we pay the 400 and start the membership. Concerns with how to secure it
** Jehan - we could put up decoys
** Marc - how long before we can move forward?
** Lesley - if it's not past the 2000 limit, then we don't have to do that
** Jehan - we have consensus, don't we
** null - can we use a streetlight?
** juul - no that won't work.
** Ben - pole mounted to fence?
** Jehan - drill, put in pilings, 30 ft
** Marc - if someone can find a way to mount it so it won't get stolen, let's just go ahead and do it. And even if it doesn't work, we'll have a 4g access point we can use for something else
*** jenny: harbor freight flagpole w/ guy wires? there are also several structures we could mount to
**** also, village folks lock the gate when not open (currently open mon/wed/fri 10-5) and have 24/7 security
== Check in on previous action items ==
Check previous meeting minutes at https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Minutes and past action items below:
* Get in touch with MonkeyBrains about donated bandwidth (ben)
** ben - I messaged them back again during last meeting; no response
* Working group to meet and plan out routing config for Archive mount on thursday 5-7
** juul, benny, null, mai, jenny, eenblam, lesley
** Archive Tower Meeting Notes - https://peoplesopen.net/pad/p/richmond-tower-hardware
** ben: We talked about what we wanted and also what a minimum viable product would be for what we want to install and they're willing to just give us rackspace. We talked about bringing in a router and a switch for multiple radios on the roof. We have a 12-harddrive storage server. We just need to buy hard drives for it.
*** Mai: somebody was gonna follow up, who? (benny) the last thing Jonah asked us is what routing configuration we would use that is connected to our equipment on the tower
*** null: I think benny?
** send e-mail about richmond tower working group meeting (mai) - done
** marc - we agreed to meet this past Sunday. I set up the rackmount server with latest debian. Need to add babel and tunneldigger, set up cron backup, etc.
*** we're meeting again tomorrow at 3pm to finalize that.
*** When done we should be ready to just go shove it into the rack.
*** Meeting tomorrow at 3 PM to finalize.
* create text for byoi eventbrite (benny)
** not done yet. Will do tomorrow. take a look at https://www.loomio.org/d/0h914dO3/byoi-fall-2018/5 would be awesome to decide on a simple event timeline tonite! 12-5? 3-8?
** what do we want to do besides hang out at activity booths?
* create poster for byoi event (benny)
** Not yet. Planning to do this week / weekend
* combine "node mount" and "office hours" sections in notes template (benny)
** Didn't do it yet.
** jenny did this today
*** Sick!
== 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-…
*
=== Node Mounts & Outreach ===
Node Mounts Trello: https://trello.com/invite/b/DtzngKaM/49e1c21fc9da199fcdeceb8623b5117a/node-…
* grant - Matt from Paxio got back to us, said there is no LOS between Omni Commons and downtown Oakland? Suggested looking for places in Emeryville or Golden Gate neighborhood.
** Ben, Marc, Jehan - ... But we do have line of sight
*** Is it possible we have wrong building?
****-Seth i'm gonna make a googleearth map tomorrow night.
** I'm not sure how to respond to Matt's last email, Marc or Mai wanna pick up on this thread?
** Also benny was looking at places for Internet Archive mount in West Berkeley, maybe one those that could also see Paxio?
** Paxio's presumed location in 436 14th St, Oakland.
* Jason's install - decide equipment - he will get sonic gigabit fiber soon. Lesley dropped off rocket + N600 with him and can see the signal from her place, but it only has a ~300 mbps throughput maximum.
* Ben - power constraints at Jeff's place. Ideally would have omnidirectional. But for his proposed setup, we might need to store equipment at Jeff's/John's and run another wire.
** i.e. if we're going to have a rocket at each site, we'll want a directional point-to-point link as well. This means we need a switch, etc.
** bonus issue - we're under the radar at Jeff's place
* Ben - rigth now we just have a nanobridge at Jeff's place, running sudowrt, so we would need to swap it out with one running airos. We should have either omni or sector attached to a rocket. If we're also going to put a rocket at Jeff's and a rocket at Jasons, we could just put rockets on both, or we could get a couple of Microtic wireless routers, but that would require plugging into both extender node ports on n600, which would be slow, or throwing in a switch. If we did microtics we'd need switches on both ends, which might be difficult due to landlord/power constraints at Jeff's place. I'd like to keep that simple on that side.
* scott - Should I reach out to All Power labs about getting a tower on their place as an Internet Archive connection?
** They're like two buildings down from Pief's.
** What can we offer them?
*** marc - expect half a gigabit.
=== Communications & Events ===
Comms Trello: https://trello.com/invite/b/f3ugMPNU/94033ee6c2cef93fc1b1637b727c902a/sudo-…
Events Trello: https://trello.com/invite/b/Y3XfDK85/2b6fcb4fa92788609692a53a96fb4614/peopl…
* See BYOI discussion item
=== Internal Logistics / Finance ===
Internal Logistics & Bureaucracy Trello: https://trello.com/invite/b/LzVQlW3X/1bb8bd543c8633688175365d2554c2c2/inter…
* jehan - I need answers for insurance stuff
** said 20 volunteers
** put sources of funding as private foundations - what would you say are other sources of funding?
*** plz share questions and i can answer them --jenny (no, not private foundations. big diff btw private foundations & public charities...) - jenny
**** small recurring and one-time charitable contributions and grants; in-kind donations
** also officer's insurance is supplementary doc
*** we want general liability as well as D&O
** Marc - suggests putting questions in google docs
== Next Sunday ==
We host office hours every Sunday from 1-3pm in Sudo Room, and often arrange a rooftop node mount.
* To sign up to bottomline, fill in your name here: https://ethercalc.org/byoi_office_hours
* Ongoing node mounting spreadsheet is located at: https://peoplesopen.net/sundays
* Notes from this past Sunday's session:
* seth - me and null inventoried cage last sunday. Antoinette and Cassidy box inventoried in cage - anybody know if these projects are ongoing or defunct?
** jenny - antoinette bin is my bad. will recoup
== Discussion: November BYOI Event ==
* Let's look at Benny's Loomio! https://www.loomio.org/d/0h914dO3/byoi-fall-2018/5
** food
*** scott - I'm willing to do food again. Anyone have requests for types of food?
**** Thinking southeast asian - spring rolls with peanut sauce, pad thai, etc.
**** ben - we should have non-peanut options
** swag
*** Seth-im bringing t-shirts.
*** jenny can make buttons & stickers - mebbe an upcoming sunday aft activity?
** activities
*** juul - thinking about playing around with pogo plugs, which I've got a bunch of. You can pull them apart without tools, have root access, and bootload them easily. They're $15 each. We can play with these, and use some hard drives, and play around with them at the event.
*** marc - not much has been happening with disaster radio but maybe Grant would be interested in showing off the simulator
**** ben - could be cool to set up a monitor up for the simulator's visualization
*** TCP Roller disco
** outreach
*** print flyers for null, nanomonkey, jnny, anyone else attending nonprofit dev summit
*** marc - we were talking about having more of a party atmosphere. Maybe start roller disco earlyish?
**** mai - maybe have a movie showing?
**** ben - maybe the suggested 3-8 timeslot instead of 12-5? Closer to party time.
***** several people thought this was a good idea
== Action Items ==
* Email Jonah re: what kind of routing configuration we plan to have for our Archive mount (benny?)
* Meeting to configure servers for Archive mount 3pm Wed Nov 7 (juul, et al)
* Add BYOI to Omni Calendar (jenny?)
** jenny: submitted some weeks ago & contract signed - event will be published following payment of invoice (offered $300 which is nonprofit rate)
*** should also make event posts on indybay, fb, SSB... did i just volunteer? :D
* Insurance details - jehan, ben, jenny
* Purchase gear for Jason's install - lesley, ben
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