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Re: [Mesh] [OpenOakland Brigade] [OpenOakland] Community Wireless Networks Across America

by Tony Barreca

There's an active Mesh Network project in Oakland once again, the central locus of which is at Sudoroom. On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 3:05 AM, howard dyckoff <howarddy(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Most of the Mesh network activity was previously confined to SF. > > I think there was some activity in North Oakland 2-3 years back. > > If I recall correctly, the cells have to be within half a mile or a third > of a mile of each other.... pls verify, I'm sure the range has increased > gradually. > > And I think the min cost of a local neighborhood transmitter and antennae > was between $500 and $1000 a few years ago. I hope that pricing is better > now. > > The problem, I think , is that the areas most in need of this have fewer > and less successful neighborhood associations and fewer households that > could afford to setup mesh nodes. > > That's unfortunate since this could provide really inexpensive internet > access for everyone. > > I am sure "Business Improvement Districts" could be involved, but there > are few of them operating in East and West Oakland. We'd need a big > grant to cover those areas -- or a lot of neighborhood organizing. > > And we'd have to plan for some of the equipment being stolen. As an > example, the new library at 81st Ave, where we held an event earlier this > year, had many of its computers stolen a few weeks after it opened. > > But I don't want to be too negative here. I would definitely support this > effort. > > > > > On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Eddie Tejeda <eddie(a)codeforamerica.org>wrote: > >> Hey everyone! >> >> Checkout this cool project by Preston Rhea, from Open Technology >> Institute at the New America Foundation. He's thinking that Oakland will be >> one of the pilot cities. There are existing local mesh network projects in >> the area, right? People know how those projects are doing? This could be a >> collaborative opportunity. >> >> >> http://crowdhitch.millennialtrain.co/campaign/detail/1330 >> >> >> The project is to spread locally-managed community wireless mesh >>> networks around the country. I'll teach local technologists and community >>> organizers how to use regular Wi-Fi routers and free, open source software >>> to build their own community Internet infrastructure. >> >> >> >>> >>> The project will use Commotion <http://commotionwireless.net/>, a free, >>> open source software project designed to make it easy for anyone to set up >>> their own mesh network. We'll share tools and methods for participatory >>> technology pedagogy, and the routers that we set up together will remain >>> with the locals to seed their own mesh networks. With these seeds spread, >>> people in each city can continue to grow locally-managed Internet networks >>> and spur innovation on a shared platform accessible to any resident. >> >> >> -- >> Eddie A. Tejeda >> @eddietejeda >> 2012 Fellow, Code for America >> http://codeforamerica.org >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "OpenOakland" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to openoakland+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to openoakland(a)googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/openoakland/CAALX_7Y--m8x0%3DnuHdvQWAOCRJ… >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "OpenOakland" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to openoakland+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to openoakland(a)googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/openoakland/CAGOPvtFSs8JtEGTapLhZfmK%3DxZ… > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Tony Barreca LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tonybarreca Skype: tonybarreca Twitter: tbarreca Mobile: (510) 710-5864

10 years, 11 months

Meeting notes 6/13

by Miguel Vargas

Good meeting last night. We covered a lot of ground. I've tried to highlight action items in red below. Wepay campaign: at 2/3ds. $1293. We have 100 mesh routers. Goals of the mesh project: - off the grid communication, - create an alternate way to communicate. more controlled by the people - a way for disadvantage people to get internet access - sustainable business model - share internet connections. everybody has to buy their own internet connection - usable phone service. - why are you paying comcast? - load balancing - access to the internet - .oakland domain name - replacing the internet not controled by the powers - encryption by default - low-bandwidth free internet Name: - sudonet mesh - sudomesh - confusion with the word psuedo - 510pen - optomesh ?? Organization: - nonprofit - 501c3 - paperwork - lots of tax forms - under noisebridge - nonprofit isp run by volunteers - 501c4 same benefits as 501c3 - “social welfare” organization - still get donor tax deduction - orgs might have bias against them - coops - can’t get tax deductible donations - nonprofit where donating can get you on the board - we need to talk to lawyers Business models - cost - buying routers - people adopt routers - people buy routers - couple of full time real employees - mounting routers/antennae - managing of network - bandwidth - electricity - advertising on splash page - name the wifi network as the web address - sell service to business districts - digital bulletin boards - skill share board - begging for cash model - OLPC model, - people pay 2x for themselves and someone else - ISPs ToS don’t allow you to share bandwidth - get local ISPs to contribute - monkeybrains? - competing with Unwired, and their radio frequency - legal advisers??? Metaplanning for node deployment - get in touch with people that have mesh network experience - get familiar - look at google earth for 3d building structures - ham license - study cram sessions - get in touch with that community - aprs network by ham radio operators - weather - packet radio - allows you to mount masts - allows you to amplify wifi - fog/rain? - aprs.fi Mesh protocol Openwrt - cjdns - new - runs as a program - scales ? - encrypted by default - untested - batman-adv - lower level - efficient multicast - no encryption - olsr - older - runs as a program - runs on a lot of devices - more tested - 2000-3000 node network - every node can be part of the mesh - windows, android, linux - babel - really easy?? - Create an image that you can flash on all routers, two options: - script after boot - web page that generates a custom compile - Get people with experience to come talk to us Plan for testing received hardware and inventory management - 100 routers - mostly ubiquity picostations - tagging - barcodes - put it in a spreasheet - etch them end - test them all Plan for getting the local community involved and finding people willing to adopt a node - highschools and college students - Community watch - neighborhood survaillance - generalized outreach Action items - form sub groups Neighborhood choice - San Antonio neighborhood - we have a good partners in the community - LOLspace/Bikery - none of us live there - maybe harder to do troubleshooting/outreach - West Oakland neighborhood

10 years, 11 months

Meeting tonight at 8:30 pm in sudo room

by Marc Juul

With the recent crowd funding campaign and router purchase we're moving rapidly from "group of people interest in mesh" towards becoming a sizable physical mesh. There is much work ahead of us. I suggest that we have a two-hour meeting, with at least the following agenda items (feel free to add more): *Choosing a name :Are we 510pen or sudo mesh or sudo net or something else? We don't need to decide today, but I want to hear people's thoughts. *Formalize organization :Begin writing articles of association. Choice of 501c3 or other group. Getting umbrellaed until we can get 501c3 status. *"Business model" brainstorm :Let's throw some ideas on the table. I'm assuming we'll soon need two full-time people working on this project. How do we make that happen, how do we get internet bandwidth and how do we keep the mesh going indefinitely? *Metaplanning for node deployment :Researching deployment strategies. Mapping suitable locations. Mounting strategies for rooftops, walls and windows. Mapping out available spectrum and channel usage. *Final decision on initial mesh protocol :Maybe the best way to decide is to choose one and see how well it works in the initial 100-node mesh and then switch to something else if it sucks? *Firmware plan :What do we need the firmware to do? Let's delegate the different aspects (splash page? IP allocation? IPv6? ZeroConf? gateway selection? http proxy?) *Plan for testing received hardware and inventory management :The 100 routers should arrive Monday. How do we test, tag and log? Does it make sense to use barcode or rfid tags (barcodes can fade in the sun and maybe rfid tags are slightly activated by the wifi signal and cause interference) *Plan for getting the local community involved and finding people willing to adopt a node :Longer term, maybe we can reach out to local highschools and colleges for a node deployment workforce. Could look good on their college applications if we pitch it right! *Marketing :Fliers? Website? Splash page design? For people who have time but can't come in person, we'll try to set up a google hangout. For people who don't have time, please chime in over email with your ideas / suggestions. As always the meeting minutes will be available online after the meeting. Mesh the planet! -- Marc

10 years, 11 months

Crowdfunding campaign

by Marc Juul

Yay! We're over one third of the way there with the crowdfunding campaign: https://www.wepay.com/donations/oakland-community-mesh-network I set up a few alternate ways to help out here: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh#Crowdfunding_campaign We could use some reddit upvotes: http://www.reddit.com/r/darknetplan/comments/1g90fu/bootstrapping_the_oakla… I also made a bitcoin wallet address, which I'll give here as well: 12RxU4DpLpdWcmEBn7Tj325CCXBwt5i9Hc To protect us from someone changing the address, I protected the main mesh wiki page so only admins can change it. Please give me your wiki logins so i can make you admins (if you're interested). -- Marc

10 years, 11 months

Mesh WePay Campaign

by Jenny Ryan

Hey friends! Our WePay campaign is live, and it would be awesome if those of you who said you'd loan or donate to the cause could contribute there: https://www.wepay.com/donations/oakland-community-mesh-network I will probably raise it to $3000 and articulate exactly what the budget is allocated to. Let me know if you think of copy/design tweaks, and please share widely on your networks. Praveen awesomely promoted a Facebook post about the campaign, which is getting some good attention now <3 Oh, and y'all are welcome to attend this event Open Garden is hosting at Orange this Thursday (after which I'm heading to sudo to meet with y'all!): http://we-are-the-network.eventbrite.com - Please RSVP if you want to come :) ~!~!~!~!~ Mesh the Planet! ~!~!~!~!~ Love, Jenny http://jennyryan.net http://thepyre.org http://thevirtualcampfire.org http://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 ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`

10 years, 11 months

International Summit for Community Wireless Networks | 2-4 October 2013 | Berlin

by Eddan Katz

Deadline for submissions extended until July 1. http://2013.wirelesssummit.org/ sent from eddan.com

10 years, 11 months

Soon!

by Marc

The first 8 rooftop nodes! Freestation 2, nanostation m5, nanobridge m5, 4x bullet m5, rocket m5, 5x PoE with remote reset and ground, 3x PoE with ground.

10 years, 11 months

New hardware

by Marc Juul

So, as some of you know, Jenny and myself have invested in the following hardware: 5 ghz 802.11n hardware: 4x Bullet M5 HP - 150 mbps - needs external antenna 1x Nanostation M5 - 300 mbps - semi-directional panel antenna 1x Nanobridge M5 high-gain - 300 mbps - directional parabolic antenna 2.4 ghz 802.11n hardware: 1x Freestation 2 - 300 mbps - semi-directional panel atenna Here are my experiences with the gear so far. The Freestation OpenWRT image has a bug in it that makes it unusable after flashing. It should be easy to recover from using the serial console though. I've successfully put OpenWRT on one of the Bullet M5s. It's easy to flash the Ubiquiti gear with tftp. Easier than the flashing the Asus routers. When testing the Bullet M5s I noticed that the original firmware has a really cool feature. It's a frequency analyzer for the 5 ghz spectrum that will allow us to find out which parts of the spectrum are most free of noise and other signals in different areas. We could mount one of these Bullets on a pole on a bike with a battery and then bike around Oakland to create a map of how much interference we'll be dealing with in different areas! I put some info on it on the wiki: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Software_tools I haven't done anything with the nanostation or nanobridge yet. As a side note, it seems like the Freestation routers might be going out of production. Some sellers stopped selling them and the price has dropped to $60 for the 2.4 ghz models and $70 for the 5 ghz models. That's a bit sad, as they seem like a pretty good deal, but maybe that means we'll be able to get them for cheap. I created a wish list with gear for all price ranges, so you can point people here if they'd rather donate a thing than cash :-) https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Wishlist -- Marc Juul

10 years, 11 months

Router Reuse Donation Drive

by Jenny Ryan

Dear Sudoers, Give us your old, your broken, your wireless routers yearning to be free... We will take them, and make them great once more (access points too!) –part of the mesh, the metamycelia of our dreams. In the stack of crates that creates our cubbies, there is a place... For your lost ones, potential nodes in a network more aptly befitting of the revolution. Contribute them, anonymously if you wish, or sudonoymously, be you a phish! Love, the Seriously Silly Sudo Society (https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh) -------- Jenny http://jennyryan.net http://thepyre.org http://thevirtualcampfire.org http://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 ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`

10 years, 12 months

Cjdns

by Alcides Gutierrez

Hello everyone! I hung out with dan and bentley from seattle on mumble last night to clear up some things about cjdns. Most of the following i already knew but wanted to confirm my understanding before elaborating. Before i continue, id like to say that while i prefer cjdns, i support people deploying what they are more comfortable with. There exist several connected communities with different protocols running. I heard of some in Italy that connect batman-adv communties through babeld communities in the middle. So cjdns is indeed a mesh protocol and does not require the internet (which is also a mesh net) to work. What it does require is a connection (radios, wires, switches, etc.). It may have required the internet to get it off the ground but telecommix helped a great deal with their ethernet interface contribution. And cjdns can act as a gateway to the internet or it can be completely isolated from it. So you can provide internet access or you can have a darknet (not to be confused with an anonymous darknet). Or you can connect your local darknet to another local darknet over the internet. While cjdns differs from other protocols in routing techniques, its not because the developer ignored the work behind other protocols. Instead it was felt that a different approach was needed. The approach started slow but seems to be in a great condition now. Routes are determined by bitshifting voodoo on the address packets and lowest latency and lowest packet loss. Every node keeping track of routes to addresses near its own address space. As it stands now, cjdns operates on layers 2 & 3. It sets up routing tables up to 1mb in size and prunes unused & poor connections (not sure if its only when a limit is reached). It is not meant to anonymize traffic but instead offer privacy through native encryption. Tor, i2p, and any other service can operate on cjdns. Im also told that the code is pleasant on the eyes, so you might like to start with https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns/blob/master/admin/angel/Angel.c It does throw people off initially because its not what they expect (batman,,tor,internet access, etc). Any specific concerns, please feel free to raise them. Ill be hanging out again tonight and Ill see what answers i can get. Alcides Gutierrez http://e64.us

11 years

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