[Mesh] This Week in Mesh! + Hack Night tonight, 7:30pm

*Announcements: * - The naming poll ends today! Please write in your choices for the name of the mesh before the meeting tonight. - Please reply to this thread if you'd be interested in having community outreach meetings concurrently with hack night or on a separate night (Monday evenings perhaps?) *Events: * - Tonight, 7:30-10pm: Hack Nights every Thursday starting at *7:30pm*(note time change) - Thursday, August 29, 7:30-10pm: GENERAL MEETING for strategy, planning & newbie orientation every Last Thursday. - Saturday, August 31 at sudo room: *PARTY LIKE IT'S 1984!:* Cryptoparty (12-3pm) + Lightning Talks (3-6pm) including Moxie Marlinspike (Open Whisper Systems), Danny O'Brien (EFF), Bill Budington (EFF), Craig Rouskey (Citizen Science / Science as activism) and presentation on the Oakland mesh! Followed by drinks + dance party. *Wiki:* - Juul created Mesh/Legal <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Legal> for legal logistics surrounding exit nodes & 501c3 - Maxb added status updates on the various Mesh/Firmware<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Firmware>components - Maxb created Mesh/Firmware/Web Admin Development<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Firmware/Web_Admin_Developmen… - Maxb added information on installing OpenWRT on a VM<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/OpenWRT#OpenWRT_on_a_VM> - Tunabananas created Mesh/MeshApps<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/MeshApps>for local services - Tunabananas updated the main page <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh> for changed meeting schedule and final update on crowdfunding campaign - Juul and Mitar added to Mesh/Firmware/Generating<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Firmware/Generat… - Juul created Mesh/Challenges<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Challenges>to highlight some of the challenges mesh networks face generally, Mitar and sjackisch added to it. - Juul created Mesh/Network Topology <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Network_topology> - Juul added extensively to Mesh/Firmware/Splash Page<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Firmware/Splash_page> - Chrisjx organized our hardware and updated the Mesh/Inventory<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Inventory>paget;page! - Tunabananas created Mesh/Walkthrough<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/WalkThrough>to condense documentation for flashing our Ubiquiti gear with OpenWRT and installing batman-adv. - Juul created Mesh/Decisions <https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Decisions>to discuss some of the decisions mesh networks need to make as they begin organizing *Recommended Reading:* - No Cell Service? Need 911? Mesh Networking May Help<http://www.governing.com/blogs/view/gov-mesh-networking-service-dur… - 2013 Community Wireless Summit keynote speakers announced<http://2013.wirelesssummit.org/content/announcing-keynote-spea… - Reply to this thread if you have come across good articles / sources on mesh! -------- Jenny http://jennyryan.net http://thepyre.org http://thevirtualcampfire.org http://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 ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`