17 Jun
2013
17 Jun
'13
11:02 a.m.
Reading that description I'd say our mesh network project at sudoroom is
probably farther along than what he's offering for giving help, though it
would still be great to get his help. We recently purchased 100 routers and
our putting together plans for doing outreach in a neighborhood, which is
probably going to be San Antonio in Fruitvale.
If anybody is thinking of donating please consider giviving to our local
project instead at
https://www.wepay.com/donations/oakland-community-mesh-network
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Tony Barreca <tony.barreca(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
There's an active Mesh Network project in Oakland
once again, the central
locus of which is at Sudoroom.
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 3:05 AM, howard dyckoff <howarddy(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Most of the Mesh network activity was previously
confined to SF.
I think there was some activity in North Oakland 2-3 years back.
If I recall correctly, the cells have to be within half a mile or a third
of a mile of each other.... pls verify, I'm sure the range has increased
gradually.
And I think the min cost of a local neighborhood transmitter and antennae
was between $500 and $1000 a few years ago. I hope that pricing is better
now.
The problem, I think , is that the areas most in need of this have fewer
and less successful neighborhood associations and fewer households that
could afford to setup mesh nodes.
That's unfortunate since this could provide really inexpensive internet
access for everyone.
I am sure "Business Improvement Districts" could be involved, but there
are few of them operating in East and West Oakland. We'd need a big
grant to cover those areas -- or a lot of neighborhood organizing.
And we'd have to plan for some of the equipment being stolen. As an
example, the new library at 81st Ave, where we held an event earlier this
year, had many of its computers stolen a few weeks after it opened.
But I don't want to be too negative here. I would definitely support
this effort.
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Eddie Tejeda <eddie(a)codeforamerica.org>wrote;wrote:
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Hey everyone!
Checkout this cool project by Preston Rhea, from Open Technology
Institute at the New America Foundation. He's thinking that Oakland will be
one of the pilot cities. There are existing local mesh network projects in
the area, right? People know how those projects are doing? This could be a
collaborative opportunity.
http://crowdhitch.millennialtrain.co/campaign/detail/1330
The project is to spread locally-managed community wireless mesh
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networks around the country. I'll teach local
technologists and community
organizers how to use regular Wi-Fi routers and free, open source software
to build their own community Internet infrastructure.
The project will use Commotion <http://commotionwireless.net/>, a
free, open source software project designed to make it easy for anyone to
set up their own mesh network. We'll share tools and methods for
participatory technology pedagogy, and the routers that we set up together
will remain with the locals to seed their own mesh networks. With these
seeds spread, people in each city can continue to grow locally-managed
Internet networks and spur innovation on a shared platform accessible to
any resident.
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