Benny, Mai and I plan to meet for a hike in Claremont Canyon hike, next
Wednesday Aug. 28, at 7pm.
The location is in this link:
https://goo.gl/maps/NQ6GVLKeYmgBMBPc8
The hike will be steep-ish. We will ascend in light and descend at dusk.
I'm bringing a flashlight.
We hope you can join us!
Hey Sudo Mesh people,
At a meeting over a month ago, we decided to try re-configuring our meetings in the following way:
1ST Tuesday of the month — Newcomers' Welcome + Work Jam: We encourage new folks to come to this one so we can give people an orientation and explain various aspects of Sudo Mesh / People's Open Network.
LAST Tuesday of the month — Admin + Planning Meeting: When we discuss our ongoing projects, to-do items, plan upcoming meetings, etc. This is most like the meetings we used to do every week.
EVERY OTHER Tuesday — Sudo Mesh Work Jams: All other Tuesdays will be nights when we meet and co-work on things like fixing bugs, writing documentation, doing outreach, fundraising tasks, or anything else that we decide needs doing!
This is an experiment that we're trying out for the next few months. We'd talked about having more opportunities to co-work on stuff and thought we might get more done as a group if we changed up our meeting schedule this way.
Have feedback? Wanna find something to work on? Come to our next Admin + Planning meeting is NEXT TUESDAY AUGUST 27th 7:30 - 9:00 PM and share your thoughts and ideas. :)
cheers,
Mai
Hi!
(If some other mailing list is more suitable, please redirect me to it.)
So I got Sonic gigabit connection at home. And I am thinking that all
this symmetric gigabit connectivity should be used well. So I am
thinking that I could deploy a People's open node + Tor relay node on
the link.
I think I have Tor part figured out: I could use Intel NUC like:
https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/130392/intel-nuc-kit-n…
And then I could directly connect it to the uplink and run Tor relay
node on it. I would configure NUC to serve as my home AP as well,
although I am not yet sure if this can really be done:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1161398/configuring-a-dual-band-wifi-ap-on-…
But the issue is that I do not know how to add People's open node to
this mix. If I put it before the NUC, I think that a simple WiFi router
acting as People's open node will not be able to process gigabit and
tens of thousands of NAT connections Tor relay will try to send through
the router, if the node is put as the main router. But NUC does not seem
to have two Ethernet ports that it could serve as a router in front of
the node. Any ideas?
Mitar
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http://mitar.tnode.com/https://twitter.com/mitar_m
Hello All,
I was reading "How to do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy" by local
Oakland author Jenny Odell, an excellent book on how to reclaim your mind
from the commercialization of tech. In Chapter 6 "Restoring the Grounds for
Thought" sudo mesh is mentioned as an example of technology that can make
the concept of "place" and "context" important again. It's a tad academic,
but I thought you might like to read your fame:
When I asked my friend Taeyoon Choi, cofounder of the School of Poetic
Computation in New York, about a network that would allow you to “listen to
a place,” he suggested local mesh networks like Oakland’s PeoplesOpen.net.
The nonprofit Sudo Room, whose volunteers develop the mesh network,
describe it as a people-powered, “free-as-in-freedom alternative” to
centralized, corporate servers: “Imagine if the wifi router in your home
connected to the wifi routers in your neighbours’ homes and they again
connected to their neighbours to form a huge free wireless network spanning
the city! That’s exactly what a mesh network is, or at least what it can
be.”18
The volunteers add that mesh networks would be particularly resilient in
the event of a natural disaster or state censorship. Alongside instructions
for “building your own internet,” they provide a directory of other
community networks, like NYC Mesh, Philly Mesh, and Kansas City Freedom
Network. And PeoplesOpen.net’s mission statement seems to echo that of
Community Memory:
[W]e believe in the creation of local internets and locally-relevant
applications, the cultivation of community-owned telecommunications
networks in the interest of autonomy and grassroots community
collaboration, and ultimately, in owning the means of production by which
we communicate.19
Make a great day,
Max Klein ‽ http://notconfusing.com/
Hi folks.
I'm going to miss the meeting on Tuesday the 18th to go to this event:
https://supporters.eff.org/civicrm/event/register?reset=1&id=226
If you're interested, you should register now.
If enough of us are going then we could decide to have this event
replace our regularly scheduled meeting.
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marc/juul
