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Meeting agenda 8 Jan 2019

by mai＠peoplesopen.net

Happy New Year y'all! The People's Open Network/Sudo Mesh meetings will resume tomorrow, Tues 8 January 2019, 7:30 - 9:00 PM PT. >> https://peoplesopen.net/pad/p/notes (https://peoplesopen.net/pad/p/notes)

5 years, 5 months

Project Proposal Party, Sunday 1-3pm ish

by Benny Benny

Hallo! Following our work towards a guideline for making project proposals (https://www.loomio.org/d/t96DoNbJ/what-should-a-project-proposal-look-like-…), and last Tuesday's discussion (https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/08_January_2019#Discussion_Item:_Setting_up_…) about bounties, proposals, and other ways to focus on key goals this year, let's draft some project proposals! If you want to get and give feedback on proposal ideas, or you just want company while you write, come by sudoroom this Sunday from 1-3pm* and we'll workshop proposals together. Please come with specific proposals in mind (or, even better, in hand!) I think we'll get the best breadth and depth of proposals if we start from a bunch of different ideas and mix & match & remix, rather than starting from scratch as a group. Here's a reminder of all the parts of a proposal: Scope - What problem is this solving? What is the tangible solution being implemented? Timeline - How long will it take? (Start date, end date, and any other milestones.) Budget - What are the material and labor costs? Risks - Are there any potential blockers on progress? (E.g. is research required?) Outcomes / reporting requirements - What are the deliverables due at project end date? Collaborators - Who is responsible for completing the work? Accountability buddy / peer advisor - Who will check in with the collaborators and help them stay on track? Be creative and exploratory! As far as I know, this will be sudomesh's first time organizing work with budgeted proposals, so I think it's safe to say that we don't know what we're doing here :) So let's not be afraid about presenting proposals that get rejected, or that it turns out nobody actually wants to do. That's a really important part of the process. By the end, I expect we'll have a bunch of good proposals to bring to next Tuesday's meeting! Hope to see ya Sunday. --Benny * We're overlapping with normal office hours, which will still occur at the normal time. We can move to a different room if we feel like it.

5 years, 5 months

FYI, "Iran’s Social Media Shutdown in Global Perspective" Jan. 22

by Eve Edelson

If I have the energy so soon after I get back, I will go to this talk at Stanford: "Iran’s Social Media Shutdown in Global Perspective" detailed description here: https://www.facebook.com/events/366799494054856/ or here: https://iranian-studies.stanford.edu/events/partial-eclipse-net-irans-socia…

5 years, 5 months

A Grand Re-Opening of the Public Domain / Jan. 25th / 10am-7pm

by Benny Lichtner

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-grand-re-opening-of-the-public-domain-ticket… Co-hosted by the Internet Archive <http://archive.org/> and Creative Commons <https://creativecommons.org/>, this celebration will feature a keynote addresses by Lawrence Lessig and Cory Doctorow, lightning talks, demos, multimedia displays and more to mark the “re-opening” of the public domain in the United States. The event will take place at the Internet Archive in San Francisco.

5 years, 6 months

Meeting minutes 11 Dec 2018

by mai＠peoplesopen.net

You can see last week's Sudo Mesh meeting minutes here: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/11_December_2018 (https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/11_December_2018) --- '''People's Open Network Weekly Meeting - 11 December 2018 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) * Discussion: Oakland Comms Choice Language (15 mins) * Action Items (5 mins) * Breakout Groups === Introductions === Introduce yourself: Name; Preferred Pronoun; Icebreaker Response; BRIEF Announcements * Icebreaker question: * Eve - she - DuckDuckGo privacy extensions * Benny - he - AdBlocker, TreeStyleTabs or sthg? * Scott - he - AdBlocker * seth - he/they-cookies autodelete * Gautam - he - Privacy Badger * Steven - he - Tabs Suspender * robb - he - AdBlock, NoScript, HTTPS * jenny - she/her - AdBlock, NoScript, HTTPS, lastpass, zotero * marc - he - put question as trying to make browser less trackable. had too many extensions. . Privacy Possum, written by a sudomesher * yar - she - not to be a downer but adding privacy extensions actually makes you more trackable bc of your fingerprint, better is to integrat these upstream into firefox. could run tor, but actually tbh running internet explorer in a win10 VM might be your best route * jehan - he - adblock. tried Brave, but isn't my default for reasons * lesley - wtvr she/they - adblock+, ..block origin * doyouhaveamirror - we/us - adblock+ * mai-remote - she/they - privacy badger, httpseverywhere, treestyletabs (great for tabs addicts...) * null-remote - he/him - tree-style tabs ublock origin * blake - n/a - wrote privacypossum, have a job now so havent worked on it so much === Meeting Roles === * Facilitator/s: scott * Stacktaker: benny * Notetaker/s: lesley jenny ** 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: * ewaste pickup (breakout session after meeting) ** CiviCorps form: http://www.civicorpsrecycling.org/e-waste-pick-request-form/ (company is Omni Commons, anyone can submit) * jehan on insurance stuff: he and ben worked on this a few weeks ago. if we have exposure we dont tell them about (eg going on roofs) can make us default lost our policy. think we have to state we go on roofs. Was going to follow up with NCIA and see how we can characterize it and what that would do to the price of insurance. Also, are there possibilities like having people sign waivers? ** if it's extremely expensive need to decide if it's worth the risk **Scott - officers could be disallowed from going on roofs ** Jenny - other option is spin up LLC that does installations specifically * put proposal to fund participation in Nonprofit Democracy Network Gathering (mai) ** mai: decided to hold off on putting this proposal on Loomio bc I needed to apply and I don't even know yet if we'll be accepted (and therefore have to pay). Also for expenditures < $2000 that can go to the Accounting WG anyway. * review project proposal process (next week) - all ** proposal process discussion: https://www.loomio.org/p/YAXhzclP/project-proposal-process-v2 * schedule holiday party (maybe the 15th? - Loomio? could someone take this on? ** jnny: ballroom is utterly free w/ no pending requests for the 14th, free after 2pm the 15th, free until 430pm Sunday the 16th (4:30pm setup for Liberated Lens' "Best of the [Film] Fest" event - +100 solidarity

5 years, 6 months

Meeting agenda 4 Dec 2018

by mai＠peoplesopen.net

Hey there, This is a reminder to add any topics you'd like to be discussed at the People's Open Network meeting today, Tues 4 December 2018, 7:30 - 9:00 PM PT. >> https://peoplesopen.net/pad/p/notes (https://peoplesopen.net/pad/p/notes)

5 years, 6 months

BYOI Office Hours Today

by Jared Null

Today's Topics: 1. BYOI Office Hours Sudoroom 1pm - 4pm (Null) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I'll be doing inventory of the cage, there will be a few of us come with questions(maybe I can answer em) or just to hang. --- * What are BYOI office hours? It serves two purposes: 1. A jumping off point for people interested helping with a scheduled Sunday node mount, but who are not able to attend a Tuesday night meeting or are not "in the know." 2. A friendly time for new people to get oriented to the project or just ask general questions about networking, the internet, and their service provider. We may also use the time to hold training sessions on a topic of choice, conduct outreach to potential node locations, address finances and purchasing, or tackle any other outstanding issues. -Null

5 years, 7 months

Meeting minutes 27

by mai＠peoplesopen.net

You can see last week's minutes below or online here: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/27_November_2018 (https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/27_November_2018) '''People's Open Network Weekly Meeting - 27 November 2018 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 brings you here? * benny - he/they, been involved since Feb, works on various things such as posters, is going to pick up his interview project again * stephen - friend of benny's - visiting to work with cal fire - how do you have open mesh networks, phone-to-phone, especially in evacuation situations * colin - he/him - interesting project, doesn't have a lot of bandwidth but is interested in organizing, etc. * stephen - he/him - interested in wireless communications & embedded software * andre - he/him - interested in distributed systems, specifically databases * null - he/him - help build the gap between tech in major isps & what we do * mai - she/they - involved with organzing, node mounts, byoi events. Interested in this because of digital rights, interested in solidarity economy * amanda - she/her - excited about mesh networking on broader scale, for homeless, etc. * lesley - been involved since ~2013 - when i was a kid i had really restricted internet access because of religious reasons - it was really controlled - i remember how big of a difference it made for me to have access to that information, and want to make this happen for others - did some research with marc on sunday and we're planning to mount some 60GHz equipment on rooftops in berkeley * juul - he/him - the bart train (i'm omw) * remote-jnny - she/her - visiting family on east coast and this is errybody else's bedtime, hooray! also mesh the planet. === Meeting Roles === * Facilitator/s: mai * Stacktaker: benny * Notetaker/s: lesley ** URL of this pad: https://peoplesopen.net/notes === Announcements === * Hurricane Electric Carrier Networking Event: http://milldampr.com/hurricane-electric-carrier-networking-event/ * German router regulations / stamp of approval in progress: ** https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/BSI/Publikationen/Technisch… ** From section 4.2: The router MAY allow the installation of unsigned firmware (i.e. custom firmware) IF a meaningful warning message has been shown to the authenticated end-userand the end-user accepts the installation of the unsigned firmware. ** The CCC being critical: https://www.golem.de/news/bsi-richtlinie-ccc-und-openwrt-kritisieren-router… * consider heading to oak city council mtg tonight - it's a doozy.. * you can donate ur spange to the 'winterizing omni' budget and we can get the furnace working again: https://www.facebook.com/donate/720926284946382/ == Check in on previous action items == Check previous meeting minutes at https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Minutes and past action items below: * Contact potential node in East Bay Hills (deep east) (jenny) ** gah, this wuz sitting in drafts >_< - sent * Follow up w/ paxio (juul) ** haven't heard back yet * Schedule a meeting to reflect on BYOI feedback? ** mai - let's just talk about it today * null - review decision making guides * Measure power output of our gear (server + switch for internet archive) ** done w/ juul and null (180W during boot-up, 160W during `stress --cpu 2, server was between 120 and 140`) ** time to try to schedule an install? *** benny will check with juul if we're ready == Purchase requests == * 60 Ghz gear * Archive storage and web server for radiowitness.io ** radiowitness is a system that listens to all police communication using a software defined radio, logs everything with a timestamp and makes it publicly available ** radiowitness was previously deployed in oakland and texas but the way it was written required a very beefy and power hungry computer to run it 24/7 + the storage got expensive ** radiowitness is currently down but the creator (an old sudo room and sudo mesh member) wants to bring it back ** I (juul) offered that we could potentially host the data (and possibly the web app as well) ** For two cities it was growing by ~500 GB per year. The idea is to add more cities. ** I propose we put the multi-harddrive-bay storage server we already have at Internet Archive and buy the following: ** 3x 4 TB internal harddrives at $125 each for an 8 TB raid 5 that we can grow to 36 TB later ** 1x 8 TB external archive harddrive at $150 for offline backup. We can run the offline backup each Tuesday evening during the meeting. * jnny: plz use https://peoplesopen.net/buystuff - include direct links to items == 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-… * lesley: juul got a back of 60 GHz antenna, for south of Cal campus. We were gonna use 24 GHz for the Richmond Tower link, shouldn't we just use the 60 GHz antenna since that allows a greater transfer of bandwidth? Is it a power requirement? * juul: Was told by someone who was at DevSummit to use the equipment/bandwidth that Calyx buys wholesale for Sprint 4G, to get cheaper bandwidth -- $200/year vs. $400/year (for Calyx) ** Mobile Citizen, he mentioned - https://mobilecitizen.org/ === Node Mounts & Outreach === Node Mounts Trello: https://trello.com/invite/b/DtzngKaM/49e1c21fc9da199fcdeceb8623b5117a/node-… * benny: Met someone that lives next to Lesley near the Benvenue location. Will connect Lesley with them. * lesley: Seems like a good lead since we can't put that much equipment at Jeff's place at Benvenue. Someone from BYOI thought that they might have LoS to us. * jnny: leads i got from the mapping station include a southeast alameda landlord, CalState East Bay contact, and someone with potential LoS to Paxio from the east (past Ed's & slightly north) === Communications & Events === Comms Trello: https://trello.com/invite/b/f3ugMPNU/94033ee6c2cef93fc1b1637b727c902a/sudo-… // Events Trello: https://trello.com/invite/b/Y3XfDK85/2b6fcb4fa92788609692a53a96fb4614/peopl… * jnny: some notes from devsummit: https://peoplesopen.net/pad/p/devsummit ** full notes documented on the wiki: https://devsummit.aspirationtech.org/index.php?title=2018_Agenda ==== BYOI Reflection Time ==== https://peoplesopen.net/pad/p/byoi === Internal Logistics / Finance === Internal Logistics & Bureaucracy Trello: https://trello.com/invite/b/LzVQlW3X/1bb8bd543c8633688175365d2554c2c2/inter… * mai: Accounting WG did not meet today, maybe we will later this month! * jnny: been working on updating budget: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QJetruKfHrO5bpaLDk_smXYpLSvGlzytda_… == Next Sunday == We host office hours every Sunday from 1-3pm in Sudo Room, and often arrange a rooftop node mount. * null will be here inventorying! eve will come if she can! * 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: * calyx spot @ HDV? == Action Items == * add everyone who signed up at the BYOI to the PON newsletter list, and let them know about the mesh mailing list (benny) * encourage people to submit a proposal for $ and add to next's week agenda (mai) * post re: richmond tower link on SF Chalkboard (mai) * double check w/ juul then send e-mail to jonah to schedule server install (benny) * add people who signed up at BYOI to email list (benny) * talk to the people that calyx gets internet from * implement calyx hotspot @ the housing & dignity village! - jenny / juul? mux? & village building crew ** currently waiting on word back from judge re: permanent injunction == Breakout Groups == At the end of the meeting, break out into small groups to hack on or discuss specific topics. * == Last Meeting Notes == * https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/20_November_2018 == 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

5 years, 7 months

Who wants to go to Hurricane Electric's event?

by Marc Juul

http://milldampr.com/hurricane-electric-carrier-networking-event/ This Thursday at 6 pm in Warm Springs. I'm planning to go. -- marc/juul

5 years, 7 months

Asylum Seekers Caravan: Update 2018-11-25

by danarauz＠gmail.com

Hello All, I cannot go in details here, because it is not the proper place, besides that I still don't know why; but I was kicked out of the group by the person that I went to join, and later on other two members that came to join the group were asked to leave as well. In our last days the three that got kicked out worked together and it was for the best. We bonded and we became friends, brainstorming and decision making was way easier, horizontal. We, the original group of four, found two asylum seekers in Mazatlan. After that two of us, an Italian gay person and myself, supported the asylum seekers all the way to Tijuana. While the two others the group flew from Mazatlan to Tijuana. One of the asylum seekers, man in his 40s, had an accident the day before about 1pm. He tried to aboard a cargo train while in movement. He hit his face against the train, and was ejected back out to he ground, where as he said, "went into sleep really quickly" until in the dark of the night when he was feeling cold. At that time he just dragged himself away from the railroad tracks to avoid potential incoming trains, to just to curl and continue sleeping again until the morning when the sun was too hot. A few hours later we found him. Cuts on his face and hands. In the same railroad area, among train containers, there was a 16 years old and he also was supported. Both of them are now in Tijuana. The kid is in a safe place, with shelter and food, wiht moms and kids, and already got a number enlisting himself for asylum. -I lost contact with the man. But last thing I know is that he has a place where to sleep and eat with the person that kicked me out of the group. I hope he is okay. Both were given new clothes, and shoes while in Mazatlan. The funds came from donations like yours. Thank you for that. We didn't help tons of people, we helped only two. At the beginning when I was in Tlaquepaque, Jalisco I did some short interviews and one of them was with Vivian https://asylumseekerscaravan.org/2018/11/20/2018-11-18-vivian-a-computer-te… which we kept in touch. At the time, we couldn't help them. But at least we have been on WhatsApp. Yesterday latest news, they were in Mexicali for a few days already and has not eaten, he/she said was hungry. And that a bus was living tomorrow to Tijuana, but for only the ones that can afford the ticket. I sent some money, but they was not able to pick it up, the local store asked for Mexican Electoral ID. So, we lost, 1000 pesos. I had sent enough for Vivian and partner, and some change. I have to say that I didn't ask for money to support my flight ticket to Jalisco. And my expenses there, were covered by donations that my new gay friend had received. During the trip up north Mexico, I was in contact with another small group that was made up of three mom, two husbands, four children (including a baby that was born in Puebla, after jumps of the truck sent the mom to the hospital). https://asylumseekerscaravan.org/2018/11/24/2018-11-23-ten-days-old-baby-th… There are not public videos of the two we helped directly, because they wanted it private. They allow me to interview them when we arrived to Tijuana, for me to remember them.But they are okay with some photos in my facebook account, you may see them there. Thank you to all of you that supported with moral encouragement, and some that donated. If you feel that you want to donate, because what I lived and experienced and the work I saw done today I recommend https://www.facebook.com/ActivateLabs/ donation point: https://www.facebook.com/donate/485476331860297/ The donate button at https://asylumseekerscaravan.org already reflects this new donation point. Many thanks to all of you, <3! Daniel

5 years, 7 months

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