Howdy ya'll,
I procured a Nanostation M5 and whish to flash it tonight at Sudo.
Looking forward to set this puppy up and give north oakland another node :)
-Luis
Hi Mesh folks!
It's a little bit last minute, but Coursera is offering a computer
networking class starting Monday. It's pretty introductory, but I think
it'll definitely be relevant to the task at hand and a great way for
some of us to level up on our networking knowledge/skills. I've signed
up and if anyone else is interested, I'd be happy to find some time
where we could do a little review session (maybe thursdays before the
mesh meeting even?).
Happy New Year of Meshing!
Max
Hey everyone,
I met many of you last summer, and just moved back to Berkeley for a few
months. I'm looking forward to figuring out how to plug back into the mesh
efforts. And I'll be taking the computer networking class as well, and
would love to meet up before the hacknight to review as well. See ya'll
soon!
Jacob
Anybody interested in speaking about the People's Open Network at Mass
Effect?
I don't mind doing it if nobody else wants to, but it would be nice to have
a variety of speakers.
https://www.facebook.com/events/700853143281064
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> 4. Lot of rugged/GPS-enabled laptops available (Pete Forsyth)
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> From: Pete Forsyth <peteforsyth(a)gmail.com>
> To: Somebody <somebody(a)riseup.net>
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> Subject: Re: [Mesh] 5 ghz rooftop node in west oakland
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> Dang, I quit paying attention for a few days, and look what I miss! Great
> news Marc, and thanks for documenting it so carefully -- and to Jenny for
> blogging it. I'm glad I could help move this forward, and look forward to
> connecting, hopefully this weekend!
>
> If it will reach, I wonder if a nanostation on my end might be the way to
> go, instead of a dish -- in order to offer more thorough coverage to the
> area in between our houses?
>
> Huzzah!
> Pete
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Somebody <somebody(a)riseup.net> wrote:
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> > Beautiful! Exciting news. :)
> >
> >
> >
> > David Keenan <dkeenan44(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > awesome, marc. awesome.
> >
> > On Tuesday, December 31, 2013, Marc wrote:
> >
> >> Pete and myself Installed a nanostation m5 on a 20 foot aluminum
> flagpole
> >> in west oakland. The node is about 14 feet above the roof of a two-story
> >> building. The total cost of this install ran to about $145 including all
> >> materials.
> >>
> >> Bill of Materials:
> >>
> >> * One nanostation m5 loco
> >> * One 4 foot wood beam of 3.5" by 3.5"
> >> * Three 5" by 1/4" bolts
> >> * Three 5/8" washers for bolts (optional)
> >> * Three 1/2" washers for bolts (optional)
> >> * Two 5" hose clamps
> >> * 30+ feet of outdoor shielded ethernet cable
> >> * Two shielded/groundable ethernet plugs
> >> * A bunch of zip ties
> >>
> >> The optional washers make it easier to tighten and untighten the bolts
> >> (otherwise they dig into the wood).
> >>
> >> Material sources:
> >>
> >> * Nanostation from Amazon
> >> * Flag pole from habor freight
> >> * Everything else from home depot
> >>
> >> -
> >> marc/juul
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All--
I ran across something interesting on eBay, a lot of 4 rugged GoBook III
Ix260 laptops. These are Pentium M laptops (i.e. old and slow) but they are
rugged, they have built-in GPS capabilities, touch screens, and bright
outdoor-viewing displays. They come without hard drives, but with caddies.
I wonder if these might be useful for warbiking / node mapping, or other
mesh/sudo activities? I am interested to fool around with them, and
wouldn't mind owning one, but am hesitant to buy all 4 unless there is
likely to be a use for them (and unless I could recover some of the cost).
A little googling indicates that Ubuntu seems to run fine on them (I am
running Lubuntu on a similarly-specced Dell, and am super happy with it).
There might be an issue getting the touch screen to work -- I saw a
question about that without any response.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lot-of-4-Itronix-Go-Book-III-Rugged-Laptop-IX260-1-…
Thoughts?
Pete
Hi!
Battlemesh is an amazing opportunity to meet mesh enthusiasts from all
around the world. Recommend greatly!
Maybe an opportunity to present your firmware and get feedback on it
from everyone? And the mesh the planet portal?
Mitar
-------- Original Message --------
From: Jo-Philipp Wich <jow(a)openwrt.org>
Subject: [Battlemesh] Happy new year / Announcing WBMv7!
To: Battle of the Mesh Mailing List <battlemesh(a)ml.ninux.org>
Dear Battlemesh enthusiasts,
hope you all had a smooth start into the year 2014 - best wishes for all
upcoming endeavors, also on behalf of the local organization team!
==========================================================
Announcing the Wireless Battle Mesh v7
(12th of May - 18th of May 2014, Leipzig, Germany)
==========================================================
The next 'Wireless Battle of the Mesh' will take place from Mon 12th
till Sun 18th of May at the Sublab Hackerspace in Leipzig, Germany. The
event aims to bring together people from across the globe to test the
performance of different routing protocols for ad-hoc networks, like
Babel, B.A.T.M.A.N., BMX, OLSR, and 802.11s. Of course, new protocols
(working on OpenWrt) are always welcome!
It is not required to be active within the mentioned protocols, so if
you are a mesh networking enthusiast, community networking activist, or
have an interest in mesh networks in general, you have to check this out!
Information about the event is gathered at:
http://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV7
Location
========
The event takes place at the Sublab Hackerspace in Leipzig, Germany.
There will be room for hacking with software and hardware, talks and
presentations, as well as informal discussions between participants.
Participant Registration and Fee
================================
The event itself is free of charge and open for all, so to register
without hotel and food supply, simply add your name to the participant
table.
http://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV7/Participants
If you wish low cost accommodation, a special group booking has been
arranged. Payment in advance is required to get the full benefit of
the discount. Therefore, like for the previous event, this year's
edition features an "early bird low cost" registration program: Bed and
breakfast in a hostel in down town Leipzig from Monday till Sunday plus
dinner arrangements on the first two evenings are available for 150⬠if
the payment is received before February 15th, 2013. The price goes up to
175⬠for all payments made after February 15th. These late arrangements
are subject to availability.
We'll post detailled information on the payment method and account info
asap.
Of course, this package is not compulsory. You can also find your own
bed and food supply yourself during the event if you wish to do so.
More information can be found here:
http://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV7#Participant_Registration_and_Fee
Spread the Word
===============
Feel free to spread the word by forwarding this mail to all lists /
people that might be interested in it. Blogging about the event is more
than welcome, and if you do so, please add a ping-back to the wiki page:
http://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV7
Contact
=======
* Web: http://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV7
* Email: http://ml.ninux.org/mailman/listinfo/battlemesh
* IRC: irc.freenode.net #battlemesh
--
http://mitar.tnode.com/https://twitter.com/mitar_m
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*Announcements*
*We've deployed our first backbone 5GHz node! It's a Nanostation M5
running the Sudo Mesh firmware (v0.1 Snow Crash - yes, we're naming the
releases after science fiction novels) and mounted on a 20-foot flagpole
at Adeline Live/Labs, where Marc and Jenny live.
*Initial launch of http://meshthepla.net - intending to serve as a
directory of active and planned mesh networks around the world! Still
learning Semantic Mediawiki, so not much content yet until the Forms
architecture is established.
*The video from our presentation at SFSU is up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8-eLJ4lDLg
*ToDos**(unassigned)
**More legal research needed re: spectrum usage:
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Spectrum
*Procure more 5GHz routers - we need to build our spine!
*Infographics!
*Design an internship program
*Design a workshop curriculum
*Please scan the spectrum around your house using one of these software
tools <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Software_tools>!
*Submit Issues for changes to the website (peoplesopen.net) at the
Github repo <https://github.com/sudomesh/peoplesopen-front>
*Current Action Items**(assigned)*
*Edit video / do more interviews (Daniel & Jeremy)
*Revamp presentation deck (Matt and Jenny)
*Investigate becoming a Ubiquiti reseller (Roman)
*Email sticker people (Marc)
*Write updated Shareable article on mesh networks (jenny)
*Contact first 20 experimental node operators (jenny)
*Update budget spreadsheet and pursue bank account (jenny, matt?)
*Nominations for Board of Directors:*
*Jenny nominated Rhodey, MaxB, ChrisJ, Matt, Marc, Jenny, Deekoo,
Jeremy, Miguel, Luis, Jake
*Accepted: MaxB, ChrisJ, Marc, Jenny, Matt
*Awaiting Response: Rhodey, Jeremy, Miguel, Luis, Jake
*
**Wiki
[NOTE: You can make this process easier for me by adding a descriptive
comment when creating or updating a wiki page!]
**Juul added info on 5GHz channel usage to Mesh/Spectrum
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Spectrum>
*Tunabananas created Mesh/Blog <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Blog> and
wrote our first two posts (the wiki page is RSS-enabled)
*Tunabananas created Mesh/Communities
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Communities> with ideas on communities
to reach out to and how the mesh might be relevant to them
*Juul created Mesh/Relay setup <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Relay_setup>*
**Juul created Mesh/Exit setup <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Exit_setup>
*Peteforsyth checked out some stuff
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Checkouts>
*Tunabananas updated Mesh/Wishlist
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Wishlist> with a source for shielded
cat5 cable
*Tunabananas updated Mesh/Other mesh projects
<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Other_mesh_projects> with more active
and planned meshes.
*
Events
**Mass Effect: A Night of Collectives - Friday, Jan. 10th @ Sudo Room
from 6pm til late.**
*January Cryptoparty - Sunday, Jan. 19th @ Sudo Room from 2-5pm*
**Dorkbot SF - Wednesday, Jan. 29th from 7:30-10:30pm (tentatively
presenting the mesh)*
Recommended Reading
**It's Time to Take Mesh Networks Seriously (And Not Just for the
Reasons You Think)
<http://www.wired.com/opinion/2014/01/its-time-to-take-mesh-networks-serious…>
- Wired Opinion piece
*Backdoor in wireless DSL routers lets attacker reset router, get admin
<http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/01/backdoor-in-wireless-dsl-routers-le…>
- Ars Technica
*The Mission to De-Centralize the Internet
<http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/12/the-mission-to-decen…>
- New Yorker piece
- --
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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