Daniel,
I found a PDU in a dumpster at a data center. It is a Power Tower from
Sentry.
PTXM-VO16-1-05
There were others but I only grabbed this one for sudoroom. They cut the
cords when they retired them, but I think it's NBD to wire up a new one.
Can't stay very long tonight, but after the weekend I can put a new cable
on it.
BTW, A fellow named Whitney was here asking about power distribution and at
the end of the conversation there will be 2 - 4X wall sockets on the back
walls which, together, will provide 30AMPS.
Later,
Chris.
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Chris Jefferies
(510) 409-0003 - mobile
Hi friends!
As some of you know, I recently started working with De Novo Group, a
non-profit composed principally of a bunch of CS researchers out of UC
Berkeley.
One of our core projects is called Rangzen. It's a mobile messaging app
that works over Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Direct to forward messages anonymously
over time. It uses mutual contacts to prioritize messages based on trust
(this is done using crypto to secure the actual identifying information of
mutual contacts).
It's early beta right now and very experimental. The current version of the
app shows you where you've been, and drops pins when it discovers others
using the app nearby. The GPS tracking would be disabled in the final
version of the app - for now, we're using it to study how mobility patterns
affect the exchange of information within the mobile mesh network it
creates.
*Want to help? Download the app here: http://www.rangzen.io
<http://www.rangzen.io>*
We're batting around ideas for a possible game as a large beta test, like a
scavenger hunt of some sort. The next feature to be rolled out in the
coming week or two is the ability to share and read messages. If you have
any ideas for an adversarial game that could replicate a censorship
scenario, I'd love to hear them!
Happy to answer any questions, receive and forward any feedback!
Jenny
http://jennyryan.nethttp://thepyre.orghttp://thevirtualcampfire.orghttp://technomadic.tumblr.com
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"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
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Hi!
There's a community potluck starting in half an hour at the Omni - come by
and bring or share in food, drink, and general Omni goodness!
Potluck goes from 6-8, mesh hacknight starts as always at 7:30, loosely
defined :)
<3
Jenny
http://jennyryan.nethttp://thepyre.orghttp://thevirtualcampfire.orghttp://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
~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`
So we got an old ~70 foot 5-segment telescoping antenna tower. We (jake and
myself) picked it up out in Modesto. With gas it cost us $145 so far. We'll
need some guy wires to stabilize it, which weren't included, so I'm not
sure what the final cost will be.
I'm proposing that sudo mesh buy it and that we mount it on the building
owned by Jake and Lilia in West Oakland (where me and Jenny are currently
renting a room) and put sector Rocket M5 routers on it with sector
antennas. It's a very flat area with few tall buildings.
What do you folk think?
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marc/juul
Dear mesh folks
Here's a first iteration of the mesh video. It is still a bit clumsy, but I
thought I'd show you this first stage and call for your participation!
Please do make comments and suggest images!
http://youtu.be/qva1SQSBDyE
Here is what I feel needs to be done, let me know if you want to help in
any of this or just give ideas and feedback!
- Make the background in the animation white - I've been exploring keying
and compositing but still searching. If anyone knows a fcp X expert I'd be
happy!
- Replace the shaky images or stabilize them in after effects.
- Replace the images of "underserved communities". And i'm unsatisfied
with pretty much the choice of images starting from "though it's connected
to the internet as we know it now, we're excited to build an internet of
our own..." So feel free to suggest things!
- except for the human who loves climbing :) But there is a need to find a
better resolution. The film is called *Never weaken* and is in the public
domain. I wanted an image of *Safety last!* but it's copyrighted to the
teeth.
- I would need to find the font that has been used for People'sOpen, so I
can write things in the end. On the wiki it says Doris and Anaheim but it
doesn't seem to be it, or is it?
- More and better images of tide pools being used.
- Better sound effects?
- Finally, there is text that I haven't edited in although it's awesome,
because we need to shoot it, and have a different mesh person say each of
the items that are listed. I can shoot it when I come back but feel free to
do it if you're inspired! The camera is available.
here is the text:
"we're excited to build an Internet of our own where people can access
local applications, like a map of gardens, garage workshops and local
businesses, a calendar of nearby events, a media library of music and
videos created by Oakland residents, and neighborhood bulletin boards,
further connecting us to our city's resources and culture."
Cheers
Noémie
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Noémie Serfaty
108 rue du Faubourg du Temple
75011 Paris
Tel: 06 27 76 88 84
Tel: 01 71 50 51 82
noemieserfaty(a)gmail.com
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I'll be there next week both nights to bang this flyer out.
Also, in reading various articles about the Internet Archive wifi
tower, I found this link:
http://richmondstandard.com/2014/02/richmond-free-wifi-project-expand-count…
Seems like they partnered with Building Blocks for Kids
http://bbk-richmond.org/ to get two repeaters out earlier this year.
Anyways, I sent an email to their operations gal introducing myself
and peoplesopen.net mesh... hopefully I can meet with someone from
their group to find out what their roadmap for more repeaters are,
etc. Would someone else from Sudomesh want to join me?
Talk to y'all soon!
- -Paige
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haha... Helloooo! http://beta.slashdot.org/story/205897
"In the annual battle of the buzzwords, the Internet of Things has won
<http://www.networkworld.com/article/2464007/cloud-computing/gartner-interne…>.
Each year the research firm Gartner puts out a Hype Cycle of emerging
technologies, a sort of report card for various trends and buzzwords. This
year, IoT tops the list. On another note, somewhat surprising is that
Gartner says the "cloud computing" is not just hype anymore, but becoming a
mainstream technology."
