Hello Sudo Meshers,
This coming meeting is on the first Tuesday of the month. Do you know what that means...?
Another hang out / newcomers' night!
It's time to relax and talk about decentralized/democratized/mesh internet over snacks and drinks. It's also a great time to welcome new folks who are interested in the project and want an informal setting to get to know what we're about.
This week we may watch a short documentary about municipal/community-owned fiber internet.
* WHEN: 7:30 – 9:00 PM First Tuesdays of the month
* WHERE: Omni Commons Mezzanine (the area right above the main entrance, on the 2nd floor)
* THINGS TO BRING (OPTIONAL): A laptop. Food/drinks to share.
Event on Omni calendar: https://omnicommons.org/calendar/events/sudo-mesh-hang-out-newcomers-night-4 (https://omnicommons.org/calendar/events/sudo-mesh-hang-out-newcomers-night-…)
Whether you haven't been around in a while or it's your first time, we'd love to see you! So come by, say hi, and stay for a bit.
cheers,
Mai
Sorry, I don't remember who asked me about this & now may be a bit late!
Someone at Tuesday's meeting asked me about local ham radio clubs.
Saturday morning (tomorrow) is the monthly meeting of the Alameda club.
The topic might have broader appeal than other meetings.
Anyone is welcome.
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*ARCA Meeting Saturday, March 23 @ 9 AM*
At the Alameda Hospital, Room 2A (2nd Floor)
State of EMCOMM in Alameda - 2019
- A major Earthquake erupts on the Hayward fault!
- A 6 inch gas line explodes in your neighborhood.
- Vandals cut the phone lines to the 911 Dispatch Center.
If these happened tonight, would you know what to do or how you can help
your family, your neighbors, your city?
Come to the March 23rd ARCA Meeting and hear about how you can protect
yourself and help your community in case of disaster.
Topics include:
· What do you need to know before a disaster strikes.
· What training should you take before something happens.
· Differences between an obvious disaster and a hidden one.
· What should you do right after a disaster occurs.
· How can you help your neighbors and community using your radio
skills.
· What equipment is needed and what types of locations/jobs will
need to be filled.
· What is the difference between a Resource net and a Tactical net.
· What Community Service events are in the area that you can
participate in to get more hands on training in a real world event.
This will be presented by Jerry Juhala – KT6CRT in association with Alameda
CERT and the city of Alameda Disaster Preparedness Group.
FYI
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: *Christiaan Adams* <csadams(a)gmail.com>
Date: Thursday, March 21, 2019
Subject: [ORCA] Radio job at Google - Wireless Architect
To: WW6OR - ORCA member forum <ww6or(a)googlegroups.com>,
oakland_ca_hams(a)yahoogroups.com
Hi ORCA Hams & Oakland Radio folks,
In case you or someone you know might be interested, there is an opening
for a "Wireless Architect" with Google's security team in Sunnyvale:
https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/6334958253047808/
Looks like it requires significant radio system engineering experience, as
well as some management experience.
If you or someone you know is interested, please let me know and I would be
happy to submit your resume internally first, which will get it in front of
a recruiter more quickly than applying online.
73, -Chris KJ6WEG
Hey, all! Ben Lau from Toronto Mesh (https://tomesh.net) will be in the bay area on Saturday, April 6th to give a small workshop on how to facilitate mesh workshops :) It will look something like this (https://tomesh.net/2018-12-17/facilitating-mesh-workshops/) and will take about 3 hours.
I'm really excited to participate--I expect to learn a lot about meshing raspberry pis and peer-to-peer apps, but also about their particular perspective on how to talk to people about community networks and why they're politically important.
The time is TBD. Send me an e-mail directly if you want to participate and we can all figure out a time together.
--Benny
Hey there!
Here's last week's meeting minutes: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/12_March_2019 (https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/12_March_2019)
You can also see it pasted below.
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'''People's Open Network Weekly Meeting - 12 March 2019 7:30pm-9pm'''
* https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Safer_Space_Policy
=== Agenda ===
* Introductions and Meeting Roles (10 mins)
* Check in on previous action items (5 mins)
* Updates & Reportbacks (20 mins)
* Next Sunday (5 mins)
* Action Items (5 mins)
* Breakout Groups
=== Introductions ===
Introduce yourself: Name; Preferred Pronoun; Icebreaker Response; BRIEF Announcements
* Icebreaker question: what's your favorite thing to do with ice?
* benny he/him - as a kid i liked to suck on ice a lot, as i was going to bed (grew up in new mexico)
* sierk, he/him or whatever you want, maybe take them out of the glass of water and throw them after the person who put them in there (overrated)
* eve - she/her, one day my dad took an icicle from the roof and threw it in a pool
*null - he/him - i like to put ice down people
* harpo, he/him, ice cream balls you kick around to make
* jmg, him/they, give it to my cat mittens who loves to play with it
* jnny, she/her - favorite thing is to chew on ice
* juul, he/him, working on a -80 freezer for dry ice.
* mai, she/they, ABOLISH IT (actually shaved ice)
* ben, he/they, can't top that (friendly reminder to abolish ice)
* tyler, he, put it in my yerba mate
=== Meeting Roles ===
* Facilitator/s: Benny
* Stacktaker:
* Notetaker/s: juul, jnny
** URL of this pad: https://peoplesopen.net/notes
== Check in on previous action items ==
Check previous meeting minutes at https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Minutes and past action items below:
* Lesley: I (or someone) should probably document the set up protocols for the 60 GHz stuff. Basically, you have to set up your own DHCP server (we used an unflashed N600) and then instead of just going to the IP they tell you to go to, look up the new IP.
* write script for updating home nodes to use exitnode domain names @bennlich
** Did not do
* follow up with ideas generated in idea brainstorms @bennlich
** Did not do
* poke tony re: berkeley marina tower @tunabananas
** jenny: got a weird message. ryan oliver/alder already pursuing setting up a 30ft mast, hold off on the yacht club idea--were iffy. added action item to poke again. there are multiple stakeholders, yacht club, sailing club, city.
** sierk: maybe we should go to the sailing club's sunday hangout which happens once monthly
** jenny: building more relationships and getting to understand the layout over there
* handshake tokens @juul
** did not get to
* ping david and niki re: sunday @tunabananas
** rooftop node that needs ethernet cable re-run and might have LOS to here and there camp
* ping toan and clark re: here/there camp as well as ashby bart FNB office @sierki
** Sierk: every sunday 10am they have an assembly of the camp. probably the best thing is for 1-3 of us to go to one of the assembly meetings and Toan is willing to be the contact person. They're interested and willing to do outreach to the neighbor buildings. It's a really organized camp with consensus meetings every sunday at 10 am. I'm willing to come along if someone wants to go. We already put a node on david an nicki's house who live a couple of blocks away. I can ask Rob if he's willing to come.
** benny: I can go this sunday
** Sierk: I will talk to Toan and come with.
* ping marc about golden gate paxio link @bennlich
** marc has already messaged him and he hasn't replied.
* work on a flyer/1-pager re: effects of RF waves @sierk @tunabananas
** not yet. added action item to dump stuff on the wiki.
** mai: we should make a list of things like that that we want to create. handout about security, for neighbors to give neighbors
* circulate survey re: Oakland ISP choice from EFF — sudomesh mailing list and social media @iamai
** mai: Did not do but will do it tonight!! Got another email from Tracy yesterday.
* ping LOLspace re: downed extender node @tunabananas
** pinged toda
** should remember to take a photo of the router setup upon completion of a node mount and add to its trello card
* juul: put the Calyx router in a waterproof enclosure
** got a waterproof bag
** going to give them a battery at first, solar panel later
* radio witness
** Info: https://medium.com/@rhodey/the-radiowitness-io-dsp-pipeline-part-1-where-to…
** @notrhodey has been working on this project, Radio Witness, that scans police channels and stores recordings. proposal to set it up at the IA site
** mai: should we ask internet archive if they want to host a copy of it?
** sierk: yes--the main thing IA does is store stuff on hard drives
** mai: why don't we put one on omni?
** marc: one on the richmond tower will probably capture the entire bay area. might make sense to put one in south bay too.
* peoples park meeting 1pm in council grove or grassroots house if it's raining
** juul: going to try to be there this sunday
== Updates & Reportbacks ==
=== Bugs/Technical ===
Priority bugs we need help with are located at: http://peoplesopen.net/helpwanted - For a high-level overview of recent Github activity, see the Trello: https://trello.com/invite/b/r9l5ouQ4/3b2eecd83bb9e7a57a339cf1ee038288/sudo-…
* null: working on hurricane electric server--ssh keys, test tunnel,
* marc: are we connecting exitnodes together?
** benny: not reliably
* marc: should do that with HE node
=== Node Mounts & Outreach ===
Node Mounts Trello: https://trello.com/invite/b/DtzngKaM/49e1c21fc9da199fcdeceb8623b5117a/node-…
* ben: texted jeff
=== Communications & Events ===
Comms Trello: https://trello.com/invite/b/f3ugMPNU/94033ee6c2cef93fc1b1637b727c902a/sudo-… // Events Trello: https://trello.com/invite/b/Y3XfDK85/2b6fcb4fa92788609692a53a96fb4614/peopl…
* BattleMesh v12 is in Paris this year! theme is: network infrastructure as a common - https://www.battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV12
** jenny: i got a message from keo (sp?)
* Benny: To-Ben (Ben from Toronto m) is coming to town at the end of March (March 29 to April 8:
** The to-mesh group has some really well-thought-through (and well-aligned IMO) curricula for introducing people to mesh networks and peer-to-peer apps. The curriculum is about the technology /and/ the politics. https://tomeshnet.github.io/p2p-internet-workshop/
** I asked if he would be up for facilitating a workshop while he's in town and he's game! This would be a slightly modified version of their curriculum focused on training future facilitators. https://tomesh.net/2018-12-17/facilitating-mesh-workshops/
** I'm really excited to participate--I expect to learn a lot about meshing and peer-to-peer apps, but also about their pedagogy and perspective on how to talk to people about community networks.
** Who else is interested? The workshop would be 3 hours long, date TBD. Is there anything in particular you'd like to cover?
** real vegan cheese camera
*** Mai, Ben, Tyler, sierk, ? interested
*** juul, jnny and eve won't be in town this week :(
* March 31st is WORLD BACKUP DAY! I will be out of town _but_ I will be backing up! Let this day be a backup-themed Sunday Office Hours! Back up the sudo room wiki! Back up all our data! Back up all the thiiiings!
* Bornhack in Denmark August 8-15: https://bornhack.dk/bornhack-2019/
** danish hacker camp, ~200 people
* CCCamp 2019 in Germany August 21-25: https://events.ccc.de/camp/2019/wiki/Main_Page
** biggest hacker camp in the world. in 2007 spawned hacker spaces movement.
** camp out in a field outside of berlin for 5 days.
** you do need a ticket unless you're a speaker. usually ~120 euros
=== Internal Logistics / Finance ===
Internal Logistics & Bureaucracy Trello: https://trello.com/invite/b/LzVQlW3X/1bb8bd543c8633688175365d2554c2c2/inter…
* We now have General Liability insurance! Total cost for coverage lasting 3/5/2019 - 3/5/2020 is $1,249.31. Does not cover rooftop installations. More info in the 'Insurance' subfolder: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ExvFV4I5CJDMR3hwUgsUF7RAoblFuiY_
* We've also received a quote for Directors & Officers insurance: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ExvFV4I5CJDMR3hwUgsUF7RAoblFuiY_?us…
** Annual cost: $1,074 for a $1M limit and $2,500 deductible, + $275 in broker fees ($1,324)
** Jenny will proceed with binding unless anyone has concerns we should address
* Recently paid Robb for completing the first 10 hours of Laptops project ($250) and Jenny for February's bookkeeping work ($339.30)
** Laptops spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JTkNskP48oTs3St-bZahLRqlNnFIJmqwA70…
** Benny: Wooooooooot! Y'all are awesome.
* juul: Need to pay Jake for previous disaster.radio work. I forwarded invoice to Jenny.
== Next Sunday ==
We host office hours every Sunday from 1-3pm in Sudo Room, and often arrange a rooftop node mount.
* To sign up to bottomline, fill in your name here: https://ethercalc.org/byoi_office_hours
* Ongoing node mounting spreadsheet is located at: https://peoplesopen.net/sundays
* Notes from this past Sunday's session:
** he server, lesley working on 60GHz, harpo came by
== Weekly updates/check-ins ==
* Internet Archive link
** ben: there's a tower near 55th and shattuck
** jmg: gonna pick up m5 bridge and look for IA link
* Paxio link
**
* Golden gate link
** see above
* Chuck/MJT link
** Let's just see if it works again when the HE server is reinstalled?
* Hurricane Electric
** see above
* People's Park
** marc hoping to hand over a bag of internet this sunday!
== Action Items ==
* poke ryan about marina @tunabananas
* handshake tokens @juul
* ping david and niki re: sunday @tunabananas
* ping golden gate paxio link @bennlich
* create wiki page about EMF radiation @sierk @tunabananas
* any reply from LOLSpace? @tunabananas
* document battery-powered node in a waterproof bag @juul
* e-mail other community wifi groups about rooftop insurance
== Last Meeting Notes ==
* link to previous meeting minutes
* https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/26_February_2019
== End of Meeting ==
* please archive these meeting notes by copying the entire pad contents onto the sudomesh wiki with the correct date format: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/DD_MONTH_YYYY
* then please erase the contents of this pad
* then please cut & paste a blank template from here: https://sudoroom.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Mesh/Mesh_Meeting_Notes_Temp…
* previous meeting notes are archived here: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Minutes
Heya! I'm planning an installation of a meshnet node in my campus apartment (and hopefully deploying more nodes on campus?) but I'm concerned about our captive portal.
Whenever someone logs onto the campus residential internet, we have to sign in with our student ID and then our MAC address is logged. When you plug a wifi router into one of these campus ethernet ports, they force you to set it up in LAN cascade mode which just makes the router act like an extension of the campus routers (I think? Correct me if I'm wrong here.)
What can be done about this so we can set up meshnet nodes?
Thanks!
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Hey there,
We all know that ISP monopolies are terrible. One of the reasons that many of us are involved in Sudo Mesh/People's Open Network is because we want to create a community-owned, open-source alternative to privatized corporate internet infrastructure.
We're part of a coalition of organizations and local ISPs (Media Alliance, EFF, Greenlining Institute, Monkeybrains, Sonic) that are working to ensure that landlords can't get in the way of Oakland residents choosing their internet provider of choice. Specifically, it's about landlords not making exclusive marketing agreements or revenue sharing schemes with the likes of Comcast or AT&T in their buildings. But we also helped propose language in the Oakland ordinance so that it would protect tenants when they have a People's Open Net node installed on their building. (For more context, see this blog post on the EFF website: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/02/oakland-renters-deserve-quality-servi… (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/02/oakland-renters-deserve-quality-servi…) and this one: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/hardwood-floors-natural-light-and-rig…) (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/hardwood-floors-natural-light-and-rig…)
IF YOU LIVE IN OAKLAND please fill out this survey about your experience with ISP choice — it'll take only 3~10 minutes >>> https://www.eff.org/oakland-isp-payola (https://www.eff.org/oakland-isp-payola)
These anecdotes of how people have experience restrictions on their choosing their ISP will help us make the case to Oakland officials to support this ordinance. We already have some allies in City Hall but having concrete stories of what this law could do would be incredibly helpful.
Thanks a whole bunch.
Mai
Hello Sudo Meshers,
This coming meeting is on the first Tuesday of the month. Do you know what that means...?
Another laid back hang out / newcomers' night!
Instead of doing admin-planning-all-the-time, we're making space to relax and talk about decentralized/democratized/mesh internet over snacks and drinks. It's also a great time to welcome new folks who are interested in the project and want an informal setting to get to know what we're about.
* WHEN: 7:30 – 9:00 PM First Tuesdays of the month
* WHERE: Omni Commons Mezzanine (the area right above the main entrance, on the 2nd floor)
* OPTIONAL THINGS TO BRING: A laptop. Food or drinks to share.
Event on Omni calendar: https://omnicommons.org/calendar/events/sudo-mesh-hang-out-newcomers-night-2 (https://omnicommons.org/calendar/events/sudo-mesh-hang-out-newcomers-night-…)
Whether you haven't been around in a while or it's your first time, we'd love to see you! So come by, say hi, and stay for a bit.
cheers,
Mai
