hey everyone,
sorry i had to jet out of the meeting last night. i wanted to put a time on
the schedule specifically to bounce around ideas for community outreach and
to think strategically about how to advocate for local broadband policy
that would support our cause. would wednesday from 8:30-10 work for others
interested in attending?
for those interested in policy, i just found out that san leandro already
has its own public-private fiber project:
http://litsanleandro.com/technology/
my guess is that other cities in the area will follow suit to try to keep
up with the jones'. i think it'd be a good idea to think about what kind of
provisions we could try to get cities to adopt that would ensure that any
ISP that commits to doing this kind of public-private partnership remains
friendly towards.
and a note on community outreach: i talked with some friends working on
food justice and they suggested trying to emphasize the word "access" a
lot. they've done great work in this area to make your average organic
shopper to understand that there's a serious problem with the lack of food
access in low income communities. if we say we're extending access to the
internet to people who otherwise can't afford it, it piggy backs on their
success and helps develop a larger narrative that ties together all
the disparate forms of activism taking place around the east bay.
anyway, just a couple of thoughts. if no one objects to the timing of the
meeting, i'll put it on the schedule for wednesday.
have a wonderful weekend!
jacob
Hi!
> We had several long, insightful discussions with the bat-team in Aalborg
> last battlemesh, it's a pity you couldn't attend :(
Are there any summaries/minutes of those discussions? Because it seems
you have more knowledge about this and it would be sad that it would
stay locked just into discussions. Even if we meet on mumble, I will
maybe understand, but ideas and conclusions you are presenting still
would not be available to others. I think the best would be to write
this things down. There are measurements, there are all the discussion
from all the mesh events and it seems there is a common idea of "best
practices" shared by routing protocols. Could this be written down
somewhere and then it will be easier to understand?
> i'm really looking forward to meet you Mitar! maybe we can at least have
> a mumble one of these days?
Sure, we could! But I believe the best would be first to write things
down, for others in the network and in general for all community
wireless networks.
Mitar
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Hi!
A very important video to watch. We touched the topic of Internet of
Things on the last meeting and I think it is important to see and
understand why wireless community networks should not stop only with the
Internet, but why it is important to start working also on the Internet
of Things. Because once all corporations will have Internet of Things
for themselves, we will be too late. Internet of Things is not being
build by universities first, as Internet itself was, so this time it
will be quite different if we don't start already to work on that. And
wireless mesh networks are ideal for that.
http://www.shareconference.net/en/node/1075
Mitar
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http://mitar.tnode.com/https://twitter.com/mitar_m
Reposted for posterity at: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/25_July_2013
= Agenda =
*Introductions
*Update on crowdfunding campaign [
https://www.wepay.com/donations/oakland-community-mesh-network]
*What to spend money on
*Overview of the Mesh as it stands!
*Firmware progress
*Community Outreach
*Name Brainstorm
=Attendees=
*Marc, Chris J, Jacob, Ryan, MaxB, Jenny, Paige, Olaf + others
:Marc - decentralization, citizen science, sysadmin
:Max - Free internet! Free networks.
:Olaf: Cryptocurrency, research, etc; Coinbase; Reading up on tunneling
:Jenny – Education and community outreach; Anthropology and documentation
:Chris J – Web stuff, splash pages, interfaces; OpenWRT experienced;
community tech enthusiast
:Jacob - community outreach
:Aaron - Outreach and alliances; policy work
*All would love to learn how to flash shit and do things on the ground.
:Paige - Learning hardware, community education and outreach
:Doug - firmware, implementations of the environment, webwork [software
dev, web tech]; software dev, post nexus; free wifi enthusiast
:Mitch - Likes to code!
:Mitar - Nodewatcher; python/django-based application
:Tom - abandoned hardware
:Ryan - Graphic designer
=Crowdfunding Campaign=
*We're $50 short of our crowd funding goal!
*UPDATE: We hit our goal of 3k! See [[Inventory]] and [[Purchases]] for
details
*$2250.00 to the routers
:→ Built a mesh network in Uganda
=What to spend money on=
*We have a bunch of street level nodes and a number of pt->pt and
pt->multi-pt backbone links
*Cables and housing, etc.
*Outdoor Ethernet Cable – Shielded
*Outdoor Ethernet Plugs
=Overview of the Mesh=
*The wiki is well documented
=City – coalition-ing=
*If we depend on their interests, they will shut us down
*They can't shut us down
=Firmware=
:Firmware: Max B, Marc J, and Douglas
*Quality of Service
*3+ SSIDs
*Traffic and bandwidth shaping
=Name Brainstorm=
*https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Naming
*Should we get high and try to decide? Maybe not...
*Is there an advantage to having a separate "network" name and a "group"
name
*Wycelium.net
*PeoplesWifi.org
=Notes=
*Pay for the nodes
*Tunneling setup for VPN protection
*We need a coalition of lawyers!
*Firmware – to change the ssid etc – chris j
*Points – sobdraken
*There's a lot of electromagnetic noise!
*Van-eck phreaking - pointing an antenna at a CTR screen, you can
reconsturct it from far away
*Can see what people are watching from the same signal on the tv via power
draw
*filter behind the meter that only lets 60 cycles through
*We own the gateways between our houses! I will install this to do this -
it is open hardware, with only 16Hz of data
*A smartgrid would tell you to turn off this or that when the energy grid
is overwhelmed
=Local Net=
*Tidepools Map
*Internet Archive
*Oakland Wiki
*Local Chat
**nodejs app for chat
=Mitar's Slovenia Repo=
https://github.com/wlanslovenija/
=Community Outreach=
*https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Oakland
*There's an awesome list of community organizations:
:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ao_Q7DQvNFT-dEdhZUJaQ3dDY2plMj…
:If you really want to be a part of the community outreach team you could
try and get in contact with some of the organizations on that list!
=Next Meeting=
*Community Outreach & Policy Strategy: Wednesday, July 31, 8:30-10pm at
sudo room
*Hack Night: Flashing, firmware dev: Thursday, August 1, 8:30-10pm at sudo
room
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Jenny
http://jennyryan.nethttp://thepyre.orghttp://thevirtualcampfire.orghttp://technomadic.tumblr.com
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"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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Hi everyone, I'm Rabbit.
I'm a generalist hacker and digital artist without much mesh-specific
experience. I can probably help build webapps and monitoring tools and I'd
like to learn more about how to maintain and debug networks.
The main thing I can offer is a social connection to the cooperative
housing scene in Berkeley and North Oakland as early adopters for the mesh.
There are 3 big organizations of houses, unfortunately segmented by age:
students: the Berkeley Student Cooperative
30 year olds: Spaghetti Night
older people: Berkeley Cohousing
There are probably at least 50 houses in those groups combined. They would
be excited about the mesh for political reasons because it's a
non-hierarchical community project. When we're ready to start deploying
nodes in that part of town I can get us in touch with them. (However,
they're a more privileged group of people in general and I support
prioritizing the mesh service & participation for people with less
privilege.)
Collectively owned businesses could also be friendly to this project and
they could give us roof space and publicity / visibility. There's an
umbrella organization of them in the Bay Area called NOBAWC -- here's a
list of their members:
http://nobawc.org/article.php?id=56
I added this all to the end of the Neighborhood Outreach spreadsheet.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ao_Q7DQvNFT-dEdhZUJaQ3dDY2plMj…
I'm personally excited about the mesh project because it's a way for us to
increase our community power and independence by relying less on
infrastructure owned by corporations we don't trust. And like Occupy and
Couchsurfing, a big successful mesh project would help knit the city's
human relationships together with trust and friendliness, and lots of
positive things follow from that.
Find me in Sudoroom's IRC channel or on Google Talk if you want to chat.
I'll come to a Thursday mesh meeting one of these days, I swear.
-Rabbit
I added a bunch of new name suggestion and a word list to the wiki:
https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Naming
Let's keep the name brain storm going!
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Marc
Hey folks,
I was thinking that there are a number of people who would be interested
in learning about networking - both mesh-related and otherwise. There
are a ton of various online resources and I think that if we worked
together we could learn a BUNCH about the interwebs and various other
networking knowledge.
I would be willing to host a networking study group where we could get
together, review material, and ask eachother questions. Who's with me????
Come and learn about how the internet (and other networks) work!!
If people email me back with their available times I can get a sense of
who would be available and when we might be able to meet.
Could be cool!
Max
