video:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/share/heres-why-we-need-invest-high-speed-broadba…
so President Obama wants the FCC to preempt state laws that restrict
community and municipal "braodband" initiatives. there are 20 states
that do this now; it's mostly the result of ALEC lobbying on behalf of
cable companies to pass a suite of anti-competitive laws back around 2005.
in any event, this is a major signal that the funding environment might
soon open. so it's great we're meeting to soon to chat the present/future.
if anyone wants a bit more context into CA's awkward and weak
restrictions on municipal fiber, prod me to explain !
my best,
april
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0x54FC570B
Of possible interest: ( please forgive cross posting)
Please join us next Tuesday 1/27 in Palo Alto for the next event in the
Institute for the Future's Second Curve Internet (Insurgent Internet)
Speaker Series
What should Version 2 of the Internet look like? ,And how should we get
there?
IFTF Second Curve Internet Speaker Series with Peter Eckersley—January
27, 2015
Powered by Ten-Year Forecast
The Internet's core protocols—TCP, IP, DNS, HTTP, HTTPS—have served us
very well for the past twenty to thirty years. But all of these
protocols have limitations that are beginning to bite us in various
ways. Because of these limitation, our global network is less secure,
less reliable, and harder to innovate with.
In this talk, EFF Technology Projects Director Peter Eckersley will give
a tour of those limitations, and review some of the current efforts to
upgrade the Internet's protocols to fix them.
This includes the newly announced Let's Encrypt certificate authority,
which EFF is working on with Mozilla, Cisco, and Akamai, that aims to
make HTTPS free and ubiquitous. It also includes an analysis of
essential features of other efforts to upgrade TCP, IP, and DNS such as
IPv6, DNSSEC, and QUIC, and the difficulties that Internet engineers
face when they try to change the protocols used by a planet-wide network.
In IFTF's new Second Curve Internet Speaker Series, we explore the
critical elements necessary to reinvent the Internet, gathering leading
minds together with IFTF’s deep experience thinking about technology and
the ways of communicating, coordinating, and organizing in the changing
world around us.
Join us for our January event featuring Peter Eckersley!
Peter Eckersley is Technology Projects Director for the Electronic
Frontier Foundation. He leads a team of technologists who watch for
technologies that, by accident or design, pose a risk to computer users'
freedoms—and then look for ways to fix them. They write code to make the
Internet more secure, more open, and safer against surveillance and
censorship. They explain gadgets to lawyers and policymakers, and law
and policy to gadgets.
Peter's work at EFF has included privacy and security projects such as
Panopticlick, HTTPS Everywhere, SSDI, and the SSL Observatory; helping
to launch a movement for open wireless networks; fighting to keep modern
computing platforms open; and running the first controlled tests to
confirm that Comcast was using forged reset packets to interfere with
P2P protocols.
Peter holds a PhD in computer science and law from the University of
Melbourne; his research focused on the practicality and desirability of
using alternative compensation systems to legalize P2P file sharing and
similar distribution tools while still paying authors and artists for
their work. He is an affiliate of the Center for International Security
and Cooperation at Stanford University.
Event Details
DATE: January 27, 2015
TIME: 6-8pm
LOCATION: Institute for the Future, 201 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto,
California 94301
- See more at:
Sign up here:
http://www.iftf.org/our-work/global-landscape/ten-year-forecast/reinventthe…
By the way - if you missed the first two events in the series: with Cory
Doctorow and David P. Reed, The Videos are online here:
Redesigns for a Broken Internet - Cory Doctorow [Video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J_9EFGFR-Y
"The Internet's broken and that's bad news, because everything we do
today involves the Internet and everything we'll do tomorrow will
require it. But governments and corporations see the net, variously, as
a perfect surveillance tool, a perfect pornography distribution tool, or
a perfect video on demand tool—not as the nervous system of the 21st
century. Time's running out. Architecture is politics. The changes we're
making to the net today will prefigure the future our children and their
children will thrive in—or suffer under."
Cooperate and Thrive, or Divide and Conquer? David P. Reed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RAnHWPS-Iw
"You never step into the same river twice. So it is with the Internet.
The Internet transcends any particular physical devices, any particular
services, country boundaries etc. But today it remains a collection of
rivers, with firm banks, a few major sources, and a vast
undifferentiated ocean of "consumers."
The Internet has begun to encompass the air around us. That is, almost
all of us in the West now carry the Internet with us, maintaining
constant connections to the rivers, attempting to create "rivers" in the
sky. Technically, rivers in the sky makes no sense at all. What will the
next phase of the Internet look like? How will it be built?
In this talk we will focus on two major technology issues that challenge
the future evolution of the Internet—radio networking architecture and
proximate interaction. In each, the core principles that helped the
Internet succeed are being discarded. What will happen?"
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Esunly Medina <esunly(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 2:15 AM
Subject: [sudo-info] Invitation to participate in a Community Networks
Wordwide Project
To: info(a)sudoroom.org
Dear member of Sudo Mesh,
I am a researcher in the European project on Community Networks CONFINE (
http://confine-project.eu/). Currently, we are working on a website to
include informational content of general interest about all active
Community Networks worldwide. We would like to include general information
about the networks but especially, some real-life stories about the impact
of these networks in people and communities. We would like to include
information about Sudo Mesh. If you are willing to collaborate in this
project, we would really appreciate if you could reply to this email
confirming your agreement and, if possible, including a brief presentation
of the Sudo Mesh network (its beginnings, geographical extension, number of
nodes, members, etc) and also all the information that you might find
interesting and would like to share with us. Also if you have an
interesting story about how Sudo Mesh has benefited the life of some
individuals or communities, we would love to hear about it.
Thank you very much for your help and I am looking forward very much to
hearing from you.
Best regards,
Esunly Medina
_______________________________________________
Info mailing list
Info(a)lists.sudoroom.org
https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/info
Hi there,
If people want to try to mount an antenna at my place tomorrow, that'd
be great. But it's going to take a bit of planning, as I'm unsure where
in my enclave would be best.
-If you have a very tall ladder to bring, let me know. Otherwise I'll
find one.
-I don't want to put my address out on this list, but maybe folks can
meet at Omni again and come over together? When?
I'm free starting at 1pm.
Wishing everyone a wonderful evening.
-abril
--
0x54FC570B
Hello everyone. So I've been lurking on the mailing list for a little while
and I don't quite know how to get involved. I figured I'd just put my goals
out there and get some perspective on if I can and should get involved more.
So my goal with the mesh is to setup an open source mesh in third world
countries that has an emphasis on bringing modern web development tools
offline. I am teaching some Nigerians but they regularly have bad internet.
Would it be reasonable to apply Mesh to bringing them offline accessible
tools?
My original plan was making a raspberry pi setup where they could make it
themselves and as it grows they can start to connect with each other. I
just don't know the limitations of this technology though.
Sorry if this is not how the Mesh group works.
Thanks,
Blaine
ᐧ
April - I tried to do a little research on California's restrictions on
community fiber and it's very confusing.
AB-2292 seems to allow for municipalities to fund fiber the same way they'd
find road improvements:
http://www.muninetworks.org/content/california-law-offers-new-way-finance-b…
Is this right?
*Will Martin*
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:00 PM, <mesh-request(a)lists.sudoroom.org> wrote:
> Send mesh mailing list submissions to
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>
> 1. relevant new white house statement (April Glaser)
> 2. Re: relevant new white house statement (tropical rain)
> 3. Fwd: [Delegates] 2015 Student Technology Fee Call for
> Proposals (Mitar)
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:26:04 -0800
> From: April Glaser <april.glaser(a)riseup.net>
> To: "mesh(a)lists.sudoroom.org" <mesh(a)lists.sudoroom.org>
> Subject: [Mesh] relevant new white house statement
> Message-ID: <54B6FB0C.8020704(a)riseup.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>
> video:
>
> http://www.whitehouse.gov/share/heres-why-we-need-invest-high-speed-broadba…
>
> so President Obama wants the FCC to preempt state laws that restrict
> community and municipal "braodband" initiatives. there are 20 states
> that do this now; it's mostly the result of ALEC lobbying on behalf of
> cable companies to pass a suite of anti-competitive laws back around 2005.
>
> in any event, this is a major signal that the funding environment might
> soon open. so it's great we're meeting to soon to chat the present/future.
>
> if anyone wants a bit more context into CA's awkward and weak
> restrictions on municipal fiber, prod me to explain !
>
> my best,
> april
>
> --
> 0x54FC570B
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 16:43:40 -0800
> From: tropical rain <tropicalstream(a)gmail.com>
> To: April Glaser <april.glaser(a)riseup.net>
> Cc: "mesh(a)lists.sudoroom.org" <mesh(a)lists.sudoroom.org>
> Subject: Re: [Mesh] relevant new white house statement
> Message-ID: <39036CD9-3937-4F96-BFA8-5A16F5DFBACD(a)gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
> As long as we don't capitulate to the ruling class to get funds :) they
> are actually trying to limit free speech on a global level and city
> governments are mostly towing that movement.
>
>
> We are in environmental crisis. I think mesh networks could be huge in
> that arena (as well as privacy rights and cooperation).
>
>
>
> > On Jan 14, 2015, at 3:26 PM, April Glaser <april.glaser(a)riseup.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > video:
> >
> http://www.whitehouse.gov/share/heres-why-we-need-invest-high-speed-broadba…
> >
> > so President Obama wants the FCC to preempt state laws that restrict
> > community and municipal "braodband" initiatives. there are 20 states
> > that do this now; it's mostly the result of ALEC lobbying on behalf of
> > cable companies to pass a suite of anti-competitive laws back around
> 2005.
> >
> > in any event, this is a major signal that the funding environment might
> > soon open. so it's great we're meeting to soon to chat the
> present/future.
> >
> > if anyone wants a bit more context into CA's awkward and weak
> > restrictions on municipal fiber, prod me to explain !
> >
> > my best,
> > april
> >
> > --
> > 0x54FC570B
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > mesh mailing list
> > mesh(a)lists.sudoroom.org
> > https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/mesh
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 22:59:00 -0800
> From: Mitar <mitar(a)tnode.com>
> To: mesh <mesh(a)lists.sudoroom.org>
> Subject: [Mesh] Fwd: [Delegates] 2015 Student Technology Fee Call for
> Proposals
> Message-ID: <54B76534.8090603(a)tnode.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>
> Hi!
>
> If you know any UC Berkeley student who would like to apply for some
> mesh equipment, or something else.
>
>
> Mitar
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: John Ready - GA President <president(a)ga.berkeley.edu>
> Subject: [Delegates] 2015 Student Technology Fee Call for Proposals
> To: GA Delegates <delegates(a)ga.berkeley.edu>
>
> Delegates,
>
> Please share this funding opportunity with your fellow grad students.
>
> Let me know if you have any questions.
>
> Best,
> John
>
> --
> John Ready
> President
> Graduate Assembly <http://ga.berkeley.edu/>
>
>
> =====================================
>
>
> The Student Technology Fee (STF) project proposal submission process is now
> open for fast track projects with a cap of $5000 per project.
>
> ELIGIBILITY
>
> Any student, faculty member, or staff member of the University of
> California, Berkeley is eligible to submit a proposal for consideration by
> the Student Technology Fee Committee. Individual students must obtain a
> fiscal sponsor to administer awarded funds, such as a registered student
> group, ASUC/GA, academic department, or other functional unit.
>
> ALLOWABLE COSTS
>
> This fee, assessed at $51 per semester, for seven years, provides funding
> to negotiate with commercial software vendors on behalf of students to
> secure volume licensing of software such as Microsoft Office and Adobe
> Creative Cloud. It also provides funding to support additional student
> technology services and initiatives. Fee funds are prohibited from
> subsidizing core information technology infrastructure.
>
> Funding categories include:
>
> ? Applications and Software Development
>
> ? Commercial Software Licensing
>
> ? Hardware and Technology Equipment Acquisition
>
> ? Investigative and Planning Projects
>
> ? Technology Events
>
> ? Training, Support, and Access to Technology Programs
>
> HOW TO APPLY
>
> Before submitting a proposal, please review the Student Service Fee
> Guidelines, proposal form, and reference materials located at
> http://techfee.berkeley.edu/proposals/submitting-proposal
>
> Instructions and link to the online project proposal form are also
> available here.
>
> SUBMISSION DEADLINE
>
> February 15, 2015: Online proposals due for the Spring 2015 Fast Track
> review process
>
> The complete calendar for 2015 and future terms can be found here:
> http://techfee.berkeley.edu/proposals/proposal-deadlines
>
> REVIEW AND APPROVAL PROCESS
>
> Proposals will be reviewed by the Student Technology Fee Committee (STFC)
> during the spring semester, with the intent of making decisions and
> allocating funds in the month of April.
>
> The STFC consists of eleven voting members with student, faculty and staff
> representation (two each from the ASUC, the Graduate Assembly and the
> Committee on Student Fees, one each from the Academic Senate, ASUC
> Auxiliary, Student Affairs IT, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and the
> Associate Vice Chancellor?IT and CIO).
>
> More information about STFC and a list of its currents members is
> available at
> http://techfee.berkeley.edu/about-committee/current-members
>
> If you have any questions about the STF project proposal submission
> process, please email techfee(a)berkeley.edu
>
> Thank you,
>
> Cassie Xiong and Jonathan Morris
>
> Student Technology Fee Committee Co-Chairs
>
>
> --
> http://mitar.tnode.com/
> https://twitter.com/mitar_m
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
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> End of mesh Digest, Vol 24, Issue 7
> ***********************************
>
Hi!
If you know any UC Berkeley student who would like to apply for some
mesh equipment, or something else.
Mitar
-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: John Ready - GA President <president(a)ga.berkeley.edu>
Subject: [Delegates] 2015 Student Technology Fee Call for Proposals
To: GA Delegates <delegates(a)ga.berkeley.edu>
Delegates,
Please share this funding opportunity with your fellow grad students.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Best,
John
--
John Ready
President
Graduate Assembly <http://ga.berkeley.edu/>
=====================================
The Student Technology Fee (STF) project proposal submission process is now
open for fast track projects with a cap of $5000 per project.
ELIGIBILITY
Any student, faculty member, or staff member of the University of
California, Berkeley is eligible to submit a proposal for consideration by
the Student Technology Fee Committee. Individual students must obtain a
fiscal sponsor to administer awarded funds, such as a registered student
group, ASUC/GA, academic department, or other functional unit.
ALLOWABLE COSTS
This fee, assessed at $51 per semester, for seven years, provides funding
to negotiate with commercial software vendors on behalf of students to
secure volume licensing of software such as Microsoft Office and Adobe
Creative Cloud. It also provides funding to support additional student
technology services and initiatives. Fee funds are prohibited from
subsidizing core information technology infrastructure.
Funding categories include:
• Applications and Software Development
• Commercial Software Licensing
• Hardware and Technology Equipment Acquisition
• Investigative and Planning Projects
• Technology Events
• Training, Support, and Access to Technology Programs
HOW TO APPLY
Before submitting a proposal, please review the Student Service Fee
Guidelines, proposal form, and reference materials located at
http://techfee.berkeley.edu/proposals/submitting-proposal
Instructions and link to the online project proposal form are also
available here.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE
February 15, 2015: Online proposals due for the Spring 2015 Fast Track
review process
The complete calendar for 2015 and future terms can be found here:
http://techfee.berkeley.edu/proposals/proposal-deadlines
REVIEW AND APPROVAL PROCESS
Proposals will be reviewed by the Student Technology Fee Committee (STFC)
during the spring semester, with the intent of making decisions and
allocating funds in the month of April.
The STFC consists of eleven voting members with student, faculty and staff
representation (two each from the ASUC, the Graduate Assembly and the
Committee on Student Fees, one each from the Academic Senate, ASUC
Auxiliary, Student Affairs IT, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and the
Associate Vice Chancellor–IT and CIO).
More information about STFC and a list of its currents members is
available at
http://techfee.berkeley.edu/about-committee/current-members
If you have any questions about the STF project proposal submission
process, please email techfee(a)berkeley.edu
Thank you,
Cassie Xiong and Jonathan Morris
Student Technology Fee Committee Co-Chairs
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Hi all,
We discussed the idea of doing a 1-2 day retreat that's aside from the
weekly gathering of just core members, since it's hard to focus at
sudoroom. Also it seems that we are at a moment when we might want to
make a few decisions. We can decide the agenda together in advance.
Here's a poll to help find a day:
https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/mesh_pseudo_retreat/
Some things it'd be nice to get clarity on, for example:
-Should the network first offer an uplink or first serve a local
networking need?
-Community needs assessment to try to see if we can initially deploy a
network towards some end?
-How can we better clarify how people's open is different from other
mesh projects on the website?
-What kind of project management would help move the firmware along?
-We could even invite Preston from OTI to talk to us about what
worked/what didn't in Commotion deployments
These questions have come up in conversations at the last couple mesh
meetings. I've also been chatting with folks around Oakland who gave me
some initial ideas about what could go on a network. Clarity here will
also help w/ grant possibilities.
We can do it at one of our places or reserve a room at omni. It doesn't
have to be an all day thing, and it should be interesting. I'll do some
research in advance.
Hope y'all are all alright.
yours,
a
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hi there,
tomorrow i'll be helping some friends for a few hours at the Greenpeace
warehouse at 7th and Adeline from 11-2. we'll be outside in the parking
lot building things.
955 7th St., Oakland
if people want to stop by, turns out it's a potential node site to check
out with great roof access (if it makes sense on our mapping). could be
a great local partner in the future.
all my best,
april
--
0x54FC570B
Hi!
Come to Battlemesh to Slovenia! :-)
Mitar
-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Musti <musti(a)wlan-si.net>
Subject: Battlemesh V8 - Maribor, Slovenia
Hi,
I would like to invite you to Battlemesh V8 [1] conference, an event
normally joining approx. 60 to 100 wireless hackers, mesh developers
(BATMAN, OLSR, Babel, ...), OpenWRT developers, WiFi community people,
students, academics, WISP people and enthusiasts from all over the
world. During a week of rather informal program, we share knowledge,
hack things, compare routing protocols and much more.
This year Battlemesh V8 will be held in Maribor, Slovenia, in a very
nice environment under mountain Pohorje.
Currently the date is not yet set and we invite you now to consider
participating and vote on the date that would suit you. If you are
planning to go to CCC camp this summer and travel from other continents
to Europe, one of the proposed event dates is chosen with this in mind
to be possible in a single trip.
Please vote [2] which date is more appealing for you, out of the two
options. The weather is generally nice, expect between 20-30 degrees
Celsius, mostly sunny.
22nd - 28th June 2015
This date is extremely appealing as music festival Lent
http://www.festival-lent.si/en/ starts on 26th and offers a two week
long series of events on up to 34 stages of various sizes across town
and is a great option to prolong your stay during this most vibrant season.
3rd - 9th August 2015
This date precedes CCC (13th-17th August) in Germany, offering an
excellent opportunity to combine travels from all over the world first
to Slovenia and then to Germany for an extended period of great events.
Travel from Maribor to Zehdenick (near Berlin) is feasible with night
train(39EUR+) or flying from Graz airport(90EUR+), sometimes
coach/carsharing options also available.
Feel free to send me any questions you may have.
[1] http://battlemesh.org/
[2] http://doodle.com/u87m93n6mtgtc5nt
Kind regards,
Musti
wlan slovenija
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