There is a direct action training day being organized for Thursday, April
24th at sudo room.
They are going to have people experienced in climbing buildings and
harnesses, but they are depending on the landlords permission to actually
do the training. I doubt they will get that permission. Does anyone know of
a place nearby where we might be able to do the climbing training instead?
Anyone have experience with climbing or access to climbing harnesses?
They are also requesting internet security training. Do the crypto party
folk want to make an appearance with some of the mesh folk? It could be a
kind of training-trade. Security for roof climbing. It can be really
informal, with small groups or one on one conversations. Just like crypto
party. We don't have to do this, but it's on our general meeting day anyway
so if some mesh and/or cryptoparty folk are willing to show up earlier then
that'd be rad. Jenny and Will, what do you think?
Here's the preliminary announcement:
Thursday, April 24th:
Direct Action Training Day and film screenings
9:00 AM-5:00 PM – The Sudo Room – 2141 Broadway Ave. Downtown Oakland (Use
side entrance on 22nd st.) California
This will be a full day of Direct Action trainings/workshops on how to use
a diversity of non-violent direct action tactics and skills such as
pickets/strikes, lockdowns, climbing techniques/treesits, banner drops,
blockades, security culture, scouting, targets, labor law, legal
observation, counter-surveillance, affinity groups, protest art and much
more.
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marc/juul
Hey all,
Here's the first draft of a diagram to capture these essential qualities of
the network:
1. 3 SSIDs that treat traffic differently
2. Having an internet connection vs not
3. Meshing (as a primary network activity)
4. Baseline usage for end users
The idea is that this is the simplest technical aspect to provide minimum
documentation alongside the basic network topology (the previous diagram I
posted).
Attached are the draft files.
// Matt
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Reposted for posterity at: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/17_April_2014http://pad.sudomesh.org
April 17th Hacknight
=Attendees=
* Marc, Chris, Max, Mario, William, Noemie, Matt, Deekoo ("I
contribute paranoia"), Alex, Philip, me too (Daniel)
=Updates=
* Max got the captive portal working on iOS 7!
* Marc wrote an article in Slingshot! Check it out!
* Matt working on a technical diagram to describe what your router does
* BART contract out to revamp their connectivity
* Marc announces our second mesh service: the cheese machine
=Announcements=
* Activist training next Thursday - can we bring some cryptoparty?
** https://pad.riseup.net/p/EarthDaytoMayDayNVDA
* Cryptoparty this Sunday 2-5pm, special edition focused on journalists.
* Noemie will be filming short (15min) interviews with folks on Sunday
=Discussion=
* Pre-deployment plans -
** logging,
** hardware watchdog to picostation,
** cases and antennas for the Sparkys,
** finding tall locations
=ToDos=
* update active nodes
* Add to Wishlist:
** Antenna towers
** Power supplies (be inventive! eg; power supply to a Roomba)
* pick up VOIP adapters
=Misc=
* "My so-called VPS"
* Protip: Most places throw their magazines out on Tuesdays
* "I want spikes on my hardhat"
* "Build server down!"
* interesting IoT server on Raspi: http://thethingbox.io - Raspbian,
Mosquitto, Node.js, Node-Red
* fdroid, nodecipher
=Gratuitous Link Dump=
* Knight News Challenge - feedback period ends tomorrow:
https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/2014/submissions/toward-a-network-c…
* BART procurements:
http://www.bart.gov/about/business/procurement/contractsout
* BATMAN-advanced installation
http://wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/BATMAN-Advanced_Setup
* Don't Copy That Floppy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up863eQKGUI
* LibreMap: https://github.com/libremap
* Topology diagram (with Virtual Public Network aka VPuN)
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Diagrams#Network_Topology_Diagram
** explanation of VPuN cites gnunet https://gnunet.org/gnunet-vpn and
http://www.isaca.org/Journal/Past-Issues/2001/Volume-3/Pages/Virtual-Privat…
* Open Source tools - http://openhatch.org/
- --
Jenny
http://jennyryan.nethttp://sudomesh.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
~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
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I am out of town. Will be back next week. Have good mesh!
Not directly mesh related, but I re-did the wifi-enabled cheese cave and
documented my efforts:
https://wiki.counterculturelabs.org/index.php/Vegan_cheese/Cheese_cave
The cooler and humidifier are off (since there is no cheese in there) but
you should be able to connect to http://cheese.local when connected to the
sudo room access point. I is announcing itself as a (completely useless)
mesh service but I want to make the software a bit better before connecting
it to the mesh.
The reason for this cheese-work is that Counter Culture Labs is
participating in the international genetically engineered machine
competition and we're making genetically engineered yeast that produces
cheese protein such that we can (hopefully) produce real fully vegan cheese.
Project wiki:
https://wiki.counterculturelabs.org/index.php/Vegan_cheese
--
marc/juul
Hi!
Apply! This is like Google Summer of Code, but for work on Internet
policies.
Mitar
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Hi folks,
I just installed the node you lent me (14th Ave/E 27th). The private
network (SSID: pullwax) works great: I can connect to it, access the
internet, and log into the router admin interface. The peoplesopen.net
SSID is a different story. DNS resolution works and traffic (ping)
directly to the router works, but that's about all. I cannot access or
ping any internet hosts. My device is assigned an IP (10.0.26.201) and I
can ping the router at 10.42.10.10. Traceroute to internet hosts do not
even bounce off of the gateway 10.42.10.10. I think I'm at the end of my
ability to troubleshoot this issue further with my current knowledge of
the mesh system, just wanted to give yall a heads up.
Scott
Just out of curiosity, is the private network on the 10.?
If so, perhaps a temporary solution could be to install a router between the two 10. Networks.
Scott Olsen <scott(a)veteranstechcollective.org> wrote:
>Hi folks,
>I just installed the node you lent me (14th Ave/E 27th). The private
>network (SSID: pullwax) works great: I can connect to it, access the
>internet, and log into the router admin interface. The peoplesopen.net
>SSID is a different story. DNS resolution works and traffic (ping)
>directly to the router works, but that's about all. I cannot access or
>ping any internet hosts. My device is assigned an IP (10.0.26.201) and I
>can ping the router at 10.42.10.10. Traceroute to internet hosts do not
>even bounce off of the gateway 10.42.10.10. I think I'm at the end of my
>ability to troubleshoot this issue further with my current knowledge of
>the mesh system, just wanted to give yall a heads up.
>Scott
>
>
>
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>mesh mailing list
>mesh(a)lists.sudoroom.org
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Update from Isaac at the Free Network Foundation.
Isaac spoke with Eben Moglen & Richard Stallman about the Network
Commons License and Free Network Definition:
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Subject: [FNF] april is the sweetest month
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 00:03:36 -0500
From: Isaac Wilder <isaac(a)freenetworkmovement.org>
Reply-To: FNF General Discussion <discuss(a)lists.thefnf.org>
To: discuss(a)lists.thefnf.org
growing
networks out of the bluesky rising...
It's build season everybody!!!
Apologies and apologies for the lack of updates. Much has happened.
I believe that the last time I sent a proper update was week before
last, before LibrePlanet.
Let's start from there.
We had what I think were hugely productive discussions are the NCL.
Huge thanks to Mitar for
doing lots of the leg work to bring people together, and for his
persistent insight and passion.
I been trying to let some of those ideas that we talked about
percolate, and definitely the discussions
are still ongoing. I guess the big one that I came away with was an
approach to the 'peer-alike' problem.
That is to say, we need some way to 'weaponize' network freedom in the
way that the GPL weaponized software
freedom. Of course, utility and network effects are very different
between multiplexed telecoms systems and
information goods. That is to say, we can't just say 'anything that
touches a free network must be a free
network' in the way that free software does. We need to peer with the
big proprietary networks in order
for our networks to be seen a useful in the interim. We were puzzling
on this, throw around ideas that
we could prioritize service for free peers, or not allow outside
proprietary networks to connect to one
another through free networks (need to avoid tragedy of commons) --
but there were/are major problems
with all of these ideas. What we arrived at eventually was the idea
that all traffic should be treated the
same (QoE optimization notwithstanding), with one difference. Non-free
peers that wish to use a free network
for transit *may* be asked to pay for that transit. Free peers won't.
This raises questions such as: where
would transit revenues go? Who would manage them? etc..., but it does
seem to have the makings of a good
first approach to the peering section of the NCL base. Of course,
radical networks could simply add a hard-line
peer-alike clause.
Beyond that, had wonderful conversations with both Eben Moglen and
Richard Stallman, not to mention many many
others. Mitar and I sat and talked with Eben for some time. We didn't
get into the nitty gritties of the NCL,
but we did talk about the broad stroke. He had very valuable feedback.
For instance, it is probably better not
to frame it as a license, as this implies some rights which must be
waived. It's better, perhaps, to base it in
contract law than in property law, as it has a better basis for
international enforcement.
What do folks think about going back to calling it the 'Free Network
Compact'? Is it too American?
Eben also had much to say about the politics and economics of the
current situation, and was interested to
hear a report from the front. He'd like for me to prepare some field
notes for presentation to one of his
classes in the fall.
rms and I had dinner, and he gave me some notes on the Free Network
Definition. Much as it pains me (because
of how much care we put in to crafting the language), I think he was
right in saying that the definition is
unclear unless you already know what it's saying. This problem could
probably be fixed by exploding out each
item, as Matt suggested early on, or by fleshing out the meaning
through paragraph/narrative form examples.
I'm really not sure which would be better, but I know that we need to
do one or both.
Other than that, got to see some old friends, and bought an awesome
'RUN GCC' shirt (in the style of RUN DMC).
Since I've been back, it's been all about building. We installed about
5 miles worth of new links (consisting
of four separate links), finally bringing Juniper Gardens onto KCFN
proper. The access mesh is loving the low
latency. We got to use the newly available UNII-1 frequencies, and
also got experience operating a hydraulic
lift/bucket truck, which was a pretty cool experience. All in all the
new links are working better than expected.
That said, we really need to put in a proper router at Posada. I've
asked Chris to build one from an older mini
tower PC, and it should be ready to go shortly.
Also, the UNI/CFG/FNF grant application to the Community Capital Fund
went in on Monday. We should hear in the
next month or so.
Yesterday I spent all day in the colo, rebuilding and improving our
secondary storage server. Moved root fs from
raid 1 of thumb drives to raid one of ssd's, added a new 1TB mirror to
the main storage pool, and expanded capacity
of read/write caches.
Met with Joe today, and came up with a plan for getting out of Oak
Tower (his lease is up at end of August), we are
going to build a tower on top of his new facility east of downtown.
And last but not least, finished the mutha-fudging floors in my house
last weeked (finished finishing, I should say).
As of today, they are fully cured, and we can finally live in this
house, instead of squatting in it like some crazies!
:-)
imw
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It is labeled "do not hack" and separated into multiple containers on the movable wire rack shelf that is currently in the sudo room closet. I stuffed the large antennae on a shelf in the back of the closet near the "on air" sign.
Mesh the planet first, sleep later.
// Matt
