Great to hear from so many interesting folks; we're weaving together a pretty awesome human tapestry here :)
I'll CC the Free Network Foundation list too for this intro, since I've just recently joined though I've been a supporter since Occupy.
What fascinates me most about mesh networking is the way in which it mirrors the heterarchical nature of society itself - or at ideals which we must strive to attain: cooperation, symbiosis, and the cultivation of the commons.
My interests lie at the intersection of anthropology, technology, communication and social justice. With Juul and a bunch of the other folks on this list, I've been helping to grow
Sudo Room since its inception as a third space for creation, education, and humans to grow together in collaboration with the surrounding community. The latter goal has been by far the most profound challenge, in my opinion. As such, I see my role as one of community outreach, coalition-building, co-education, research and documentation for purposes of translation, history, storytelling, and copy-paste-forking.
Outside of this project, which is currently my primary focus, I also work at
Open Garden, a startup developing a suite of applications for sharing connectivity amongst Android phones, tablets and computers. I occasionally
give talks and publish in the field of digital ethnography (or, as I like to call it, cyberanthropology). Other current projects include developing an
outreach spreadsheet for organizations in the Downtown Oakland area (and soon East Oakland),
building bridges to other hackerspaces
around the world, planning caravans and tools for connecting intentional communities/hackerspaces/autonomous communities generally, and trying to overcome writer's block through self-care.