Reposted for posterity at:
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2014-01-22
==Intros==
Q: What are you currently hacking on?
A: Mac is hacking sewing machines, making a hat rack, and bikes, and fixing
sudo sewing machines!; Arnas is currently not hacking on anything; Chris
Bee is currently hacking sound (all of it); Matt is hacking on his camper
trailer, and fixing sudo sewing machines!; Daniel hacking on Cisco
switches; Nathan is hacking on Indian food. and the public school system;
Ryan hacking on a fuel tank. with fiberglass. and sanding.; Sam is hacking
on automation; Gaurav hacking on his laptop here; Jordan hacking health;
Jenny hacking on networks; James hacking on modules
==Announcements==
* Calendar https://sudoroom.org/calendar
* #Jan25: Daylong educational event on the ongoing Egyptian revolution -
this Friday starting at 3pm
* This Saturday's Today We Learned involves building compost toilets!
* Machine Learning Meetup at noon in Berkeley on Saturday. (Now on the
sudoroom calendar)
* Stop the Domain Awareness Center event - Feb. 4th @ Oakland City Hall
* Next Omni meeting is Thursday, Feb. 6th from 7-10pm
* Oakland Makers meetup was today; organizing the makers of Oakland
==Past Action Items==
* Ink donation jar - Juul - not done
* Investigate integrating Stripe and/or Balanced Payments [Jenny, Bill]
** Seems Stripe is better for recurring billing (Balanced's recurring
billing system is still in beta: https://github.com/balanced/billy) - this
is essential for us. Let's try Stripe!)
* Look into other hackerspaces'<3 accounting system [Jenny]
** GNU Cash looks most interesting - otherwise not much in the way of FOSS
tools for finances: http://www.gnucash.org/
* Get new lease for 2141 Broadway (update to sign with "sudo room" as an
entity) - Matt - pending response from George
* Reword proposal on problematic non-members (Jenny, Brendan)
* slay zombie events that show up when importing from calendar
* follow up on the stuff here https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Articles
==Fiscal Solvency==
* $204.11/week from Gittip!
* Minimum membership dues: $2.50/wk; Recommended: $15/wk; Endless
gratitude: $25/wk, high-fives from a million angels: $100/wk.
* Current balance: at least $7700
* Daniel suggests a visual aid to show visitors our fiscal needs and
current status
==Amendments to Articles of Association==
1. [Postponed] Final consensus on yar's filming proposal, which was
unanimously approved on Dec. 18th meeting:
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Filming_at_sudo_room
*Discussion around the wording of #1B (alternative wordings in the link
above)
*Philip suggests looking into the 'Right to Delete' policies of various
European countries - + tight windows for keeping data - Privacy by Design
The following were not discussed this week, but will go on the agenda for
next week:
2. [Postponed] That members don't ever have to show up in person if they
don't want voting rights.
*Brendan proposes to strike this as unnecessary
3. [Postponed] To empower members to deal with problematic non-members,
non-members can be thrown out at any time by a member if that members feel
they are being a problem, _unless_ some other member present in the space
is willing to vouch for the member as a guest. Non-members being asked to
leave must be told that they can further discuss the incident at a
Wednesday meeting or on the mailing list.
*We need to have a policy on this, but should be written in a more
nonviolent manner.
4. [Postponed] Non-members can use the space as much as they want when
other members are present, but cannot access the space when no members are
there and have to leave when the last member leaves.
*Not enough members to reach quorum, push to next week
==conflict resolution==
== new members==
* Mack [cleaning, organizing, fixing sewing machines]
* Gaurav [Gittip]
==Discussion==
*Yar suggests we rotate bureacracy meetings with hacknights!
*Jenny suggests we add a 'New Members' section to the meeting agenda - Matt
done
*Calendar situation
*Jordan suggests a 'sudo diff' approach to hacking the Articles of
Incorporation [delete liberally, add succinctly]
==Action Items==
* Move to Stripe [Jenny / Matt]
* Poke Laurie re: new lease [Matt]
* Reword proposal on problematic non-members (Jenny, Brendan)
* fill out statement of information sometime soon
https://businessfilings.sos.ca.gov/ [Jenny, ?]
* finish setting up bank acct [Matt, friends]
* Publish the new member minimum dues policy to the Articles of Association
on-wiki. [Mack] - DONE
* Hack on Bylaws / Articles of Assoc [Mac / Jordan / Marina, friends]
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Jenny
http://jennyryan.nethttp://thepyre.orghttp://thevirtualcampfire.orghttp://technomadic.tumblr.com
Hey meshy folks,
As per our conversation last week, we're DEFINITELY having a networking
class meetup Thursday at 6pm at sudo. This officially means that we're
all accountable. The format can be super relaxed, but I would highly
recommend that people watch at least the first two weeks of lectures and
have tried to do the first two weeks of homeworks. If you're behind,
it's ok, but we should all really try to make an effort. Also, we can
try to remember to be on IRC, so if remote folks want to participate, we
might be able to do it that way.
See you then!
Max
Hi!
Spamming. :-)
Mitar
-------- Original Message --------
From: Katitza Rodriguez <katitza(a)eff.org>
Subject: ACTION: The Day We Fight Back -- February 11th
To: katitza(a)eff.org
Dear Friends of the Internet:
The Snowden revelations have provided us with disturbing details and
confirmation of some of our worst fears about the NSA and its partners’
spying practices. Indeed, the NSA and its allies in five
English-speaking countries have been building a global surveillance
infrastructure to “master the internet” and spy on the world’s
communications. They are undermining basic encryption standards, the
very backbone of the Internet. They have collected the phone records of
hundreds of millions of people who are not suspected of any crime. They
has swept up the electronic communications of millions of people at home
and abroad indiscriminately, exploiting the digital technologies we use
to connect and inform. They have secretive data sharing agreements
operating outside the rule of law.
But we aren’t going to let the NSA and its five allies ruin the
Internet. Inspired by the memory of Aaron Swartz, fueled by our victory
against SOPA and ACTA, we are joining the DayWeFightBack campaign to
demand an end to mass surveillance at home and abroad.
The SOPA and ACTA protests were successful because we all took part, as
a community. As Aaron Swartz put it, everybody "made themselves the hero
of their own story." We can set a date, but we need all of you, the
users of the Internet, to make it a movement.
When: The Day We Fight Back has been set for February 11th.
Here's how you can join the effort:
1. Send an email to rights(a)eff.org confirming your interest in
participating in this action and receiving updates. Let us know what you
would like to do in your own country so we can send you more information
and amplify your voice.
2. Visit TheDayWeFightBack.org.
3. If you are a citizen of the world, sign the 13 Necessary and
Proportionate Principles here:
https://en.necessaryandproportionate.org/take-action #privacyisaright
4. Use social media tools to announce your participation.
5. Develop memes, tools, websites, and do whatever else you can to
encourage others to participate.
6. Be creative -- plan your own action. Go to the streets. Promote the
Principles. Then, let us know so we can broadcast your efforts.
The current organizers of the international action of the Day We Fight
Back are:
Amnesty International USA
Access (International)
Anti-vigilancia (Brasil)
Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (Argentina)
Asociacion de Internautas - Spain (Spain)
ContingenteMX (Mexico)
CIPPIC (Canada)
Digital Courage (Germany)
EFF (International)
Hiperderecho (Peru)
ICT Consumers Association of Kenya
Open Rights Group (UK)
OpenMedia.org (Canada/International)
Panoptykon Foundation (Poland)
Privacy International (International)
PEN International (International)
TEDIC (Paraguay)
RedPaTodos (Colombia)
ShareDefense (Balkans)
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http://mitar.tnode.com/https://twitter.com/mitar_m
Hi meshers!
As you may already know, we received a donation of a 10 TB storage server
from the Novato Unified School District (!)
We'll soon write a proper thank you post and put them on our list of
sponsors.
For now, I wanted to announce that it was picked up in Novato with the help
of Pete, and over the past two days Daniel (who was the main force behind
making this donation happen) and myself have set up the storage server.
It's at sudo room for now and it's running GNU Mediagoblin. Until we find a
better spot for it, you can reach it at:
http://datasink.sudomesh.org:8000/
So far I've heard two suggestions for uses of this server:
* A community-curated library of free and open media.
* Encrypted storage for folks using the mesh.
Let's see how we like mediagoblin for the first use. Right now I've
installed plugins for: Video, audio, pdf, stl (3d models) and ascii art :)
Some specs:
* 2 dual-core 2 GHz Xeon processors
* 4 GB ram (and four more slots to fill)
* 2x 160 GB sata drives in raid 1 for operating system
* 10x 1 TB sata drives in raid 5 for storage
* 15 total hot-pluggable harddrive slots
* Debian 7
We could likely fit a few more sata drives inside, if we're ok with them
not being hot-pluggable. If we filled it with 3 TB drives, then we could
probably upgrade it to about 55 TB for about $2000 worth of drives.
I also set up a phpbb support forum. The idea is that the stickers that go
on the power supply will list the address h.sudomesh.org and that url will
take them to a page (that doesn't yet exist) that links to user
documentation, node operators documentation, developer documentation and a
support forum. For now there is just the support forum at:
http://h.sudomesh.org
aliases are: help.sudomesh.org and support.sudomesh.org
I was tweaking the phpbb theme and was planning on switching the color
scheme to something more in line with the sudo mesh colors (and maybe
remove the jagged edges), but ran out of steam.
More work to be don!
Mesh The Planet!
--
marc/juul
Hi!
If anyone here cares about privacy. :-)
Mitar
-------- Original Message --------
Data Privacy Legal Hack-A-thon
This is an unprecedented year documenting our loss of Privacy. Never
before have we needed to stand up and team up to do something about it.
In honour of Privacy Day, the Legal Hackers are leading the charge to do
something about it, inspiring a two-day international Data Privacy Legal
Hackathon.
This is no ordinary event. Instead of talking about creating privacy
tools in theory, the Data Privacy Legal Hackathon is about action! A
call to action for tech & legal innovators who want to make a difference!
Across three locations on February 8th & 9th, 2014
* New York City * London, UK
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/data-privacy-london-legal-hack-a-thon-ticket…>*
Bay Area *
http://legalhackers.org/privacyhack2014/
This two-day event aims to mix the tech and legal scenes with people and
companies that want to champion personal data privacy. Connecting
entrepreneurs, developers, product makers, legal scholars, lawyers, and
investors.
Each location will host a two-day judged hacking competition with a
prize awarding finale, followed by an after-party to celebrate the event.
The Main Themes to The Hackathon Are:
*
Crossing the Pond Hack
*
Do Not Track Hack
*
Anti-Surveillance & Transparency Hacks
*
Privacy Policy Hack
*
Revenge Porn Hack
There are pre-hackathon projects and activities
*
Join the Hackerleague
<https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/data-privacy-legal-hackathon>
*
A Consent Legal Map & Schema Project
<https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/data-privacy-legal-hackathon/hacks/…>to
create a legal map of the consent laws as a legal hackers tool for
the event and projects posted at the event (many volunteers needed)
*
Brainstorming List of Hacks
<http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/DP-HACK-Brainstorm>- Add your ideas
*
Share Tech and Links
<http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/DP-Hack;_Technology_Sharing_Page>Page
- Share your Knowledge
*
Hacks
<https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/data-privacy-legal-hackathon/hacks>(Project)
Page - Propose or Join a project
*
IRC Channel for
Discussion<http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23legalhack&>
<http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23legalhack&>
Sponsorship Is Available & Needed
Any organization or company seeking to show active support for data
privacy and privacy technologies is invited to get involved.
*
Sponsor: prizes, food and event costs by becoming a Platinum, Gold
or Silver Sponsor
*
Participate: at the event by leading or joining a hack project
*
Mentor: projects or topics that arise for teams, and share your
expertise.
Contact NYC sponsorship: Phil Weiss email or @philwdjjd
Contact Bay Area sponsorship: Mary Hodder - Hodder (at) gmail (dot)
com - Phone: 510 701 1975
Contact London sponsorship: Mark Lizar - Mark (dot) Lizar
(at)gmail (dot) com - Phone: +44 02081237426 - @smarthart
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Hi!
Very interesting:
https://apollo.open-resource.org/lab:argus
"This is an early draft proposal for a solid, modular and distributed
communication/monitoring system shared and operated by communities (not
everyone needs his own equipment in a neighboring area). It will offer
services locally for community members and the nodes should be
interconnected worldwide to create a global network of free-to-access
Communication- & Monitoring-Nodes (CMN)."
And a plea:
"If anyone has the datasheets and could share some insight on the
AR9330's antenna configuration, to enable the 2nd antenna for
MIMO/Diversity, please drop a note."
Mitar
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Awesome donations for the mesh today! Thanks to J Rad for the cable
and the generous cash donation, and to Daniel and Novato School
District for the server!
Notes reposted for posterity at
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/16_January_2014
=Attendees=
*Jenny, Marc, Jeremy, Daniel, Matt, MaxB, Angelica, Mitar
=Updates=
*We now have a ~18 TB server! Thanks to Novato Unified School District
for the donation and Daniel for coordinating! RAD@!
*J Rad dropped off 1000ft of outdoor ethernet cable and $600! :o
*Marc is building a spectrum analyst machine from an OLPC + an
omnidirectional Bullet, a GPS, and portable power supply -
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/
*Marc solved the MTU issue! (rearranged the layers :)
*Daniel spoke with a landlord who's interested in supporting the project.
*Jeremy spoke at SF New Tech on Monday! We should hack more startup
events!
*Marc's been testing the cheap TP-Link routers and made a firmware
image (minimal OpenWRT) that's a tarball that can be unzipped right
onto the router. Unfortunately, the cheapest ones are not approved by
the FCC. However, he found a bunch of better routers (eg; Western
Digital) for around $27 (plus a USB stick would be ~$35)
*Jenny presented the mesh at the Mass Effect event last Friday:
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mass_effect
*Upcoming EFF event in Berkeley (including Daniel Ellsberg) on Jan.
23:
https://www.eff.org/event/nsa-surveillance-and-our-almost-orwellian-state
*Mitar and friends code-sprinted on nodewatcher! -
https://github.com/wlanslovenija/nodewatcher
*Angelica's going to do music for the videos \o/
=ToDos=
*Coordinate server pickup with Pete (Jenny)
*Make or procure antennae for the 5GHz nodes (Marc / Jake / Deekoo)
*Coordinate with the Meraki guy (Daniel & Juul)
*Connect to Angelica's friend who owns real estate in East Oakland
(Angelica/Jenny)
*Ironing out the last bugs in the firmware! (Marc / Max)
*Sync with Ralf from Internet Archive (Jenny)
*Poke Liberty until we receive real estate contact (Jenny)
=Notes=
*As router resellers, we'd be responsible for replacing them when they
break.
*Computer Networks Coursera course study group Thursdays at 6pm before
mesh!
=Gratuitous Link Dump=
*https://github.com/richo/groundstation - Project used by Byzantium
folks. From The Doctor: "It is a distributed Twitter work-alike that
uses Git for its back-end and a lightweight gossip protocol to
synchronize other instances on the network. It presents a regular
HTTP front end (which is easily proxyable through Apache to add
SSL/TLS for data-in-motion protection) and does not require that users
create accounts to use it. Communication channels are set up on the
server side, and users can interact with (read, post, comment) with
them from the client side."
- --
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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