Thank you for the notes, Andy! :D
...and excited about all the progress ~ especially the dashboard and disaster radio!

I think having regular weekly node installs again is a great idea, and that Jorrit taking lead on talking with new folks is awesome (but totally feel free to ask for a sub if you start to burn out on it <3)

I forgot the new pad link name, so I was on /sudomesh/... sorry about that. I'm home with family in upstate NY for a week.

Re: the RESIST grant, plz contribute to the writing if you can at https://pad.riseup.net/p/sudomesh_resist_grantapp
  • I am thinking we don't have it quite together to apply for this round (it's a bit too much work unless someone else can also crunch on it this week), but it's good to get some text and materials together.
  • The deadlines for the next rounds are early June, early Aug, and early Sep, which are far more reasonable :)
Re: the annual meeting, our bylaws state actually that a minimum of 10 days notice is required for a meeting - however, that the chair/president (currently me) needs to create a committee that nominates new board members 30 days before their election. i think it's overkill given the size of the group, but here are nominees based principally on who's currently actively and consistently involved with the project:
  • Current board is Jenny, Marc, Jeremy, Jake, Matt, ChrisJ, MaxB, Pete, Arlo (elected at the 9/15/2015 annual board meeting)
  • Of this group, currently active participants are myself, Marc, Jake, and Matt
  • Vote to remove: Jeremy, ChrisJ, MaxB, Pete, Arlo, Matt unless any of them speak up here wanting to stay on the board (cap is 11 directors)
  • Nominating: Daniel, Will, Andy D, Lesley, Jorrit, Jehan, Eve, Grant
Any nominees are welcome to decline :) Or if I missed someone, plz nominate them on this thread.

Anyone want to be an officer? A nonprofit technically needs to have a chair/president, a secretary, and a treasurer. Roles and responsibilities are detailed in the bylaws.
  • Current officers are me (president), Pete (secretary) and Marc (treasurer). I don't believe any of us are particularly attached to the roles either way ;)
  • We can also elect additionally a Chair and any number of Vice Presidents
One thing we should probably eliminate is the membership component of our bylaws, which is mostly just a hassle for a group that has no formal membership reqs, but I'll list agenda items like that that out in the announcement email.

~!~ mesh the planet ~!~

Jenny

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On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 12:41 AM, Andrew Dollard <andrewdollard@gmail.com> wrote:
Here they are! Also @ https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/4_April_2017


People's Open Network
4 April 2017to
= intros =

andrew, juul, jorrit, ian?
josh: never played with mesh networks but curious
eve, daniel, jeff, lesley

= updates =
Mike, carpenter friend of Daniel, confirmed today that will be helping build the gate at the server area.


== NSF Grant (competition?) ==+

* Panel in Oakland: POSTPONED until unknown date in the summer.
* juul let them know we're willing to help out in various ways
* https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/03/07/2-million-prize-building-accessible-internet/

== RESIST grant: Jenny ==

Due this Friday

== Dashboard/firmware update ==

jehan: The dashboard has reached a good stopping point, and grant knows how to deploy it. I'll be back at sudo this Sunday to do a final QA on it to make sure it is ok. cool, am looking into where/when to insert the new repo in the firmware build, makefiles based off wlan slovenia

== battlemesh ==

Jehan: I want to look into bringing some of our many n600's to battle mesh and helping them set up their testbed. Also, what about taking another stab at getting some good confirmed connectivity at some of the houses around the omni?

== NPR interview update? ==

He's still working on it. Monday he requested I connect him to Mitar, which I did.

== New installation updates? ==

Jake took a long pre-crimped ethernet cable from the shelf and will fix his new node (had loose connection).

== Disaster Radio update ==

Started working on an ESP8266-based version using NodeMCU here: https://github.com/sudomesh/disaster-radio-nodemcu
grant interested in helping out, building modules?

We have a working system and development framework that so far does: wifi, dhcp server, dns server and webserver serving up a node.js app

juul will be adding a new access point to the people's open net home node firmware 

== Monitoring / map software update ==

* No code progress since last week. 
* Had discussion on Sunday about node mapping: 
: For now we should simply have a "register your node" feature on the map where you can add your email, phone and node location (all optional)
: In the future we might want better
* Need to deploy to server. 
* Andrew interested in working on it?

== inventory security: gate project update ==
daniel has a carpenter friend he's gonna ask to help out

== Annual meeting: April 18, 7:30 ==

juul will ask if jenny wants to send invite

Need to send email

== Discussion of working groups / nominations of facilitators ==
lesley: everyone is contributing to multiple things overlapping with the proposed subgroups, why do we need this?
jorrit says he is talking a lot... is interested in taking lead for on-boarding possible contributors
eve: what's the branding of people's open
lesley: decentralized, without leaders, without surviellance, be clearer on messaging
grant: scalable collectivisation

create node mounting group, jeff volunteered his house for a node mounting demo, Sunday 1pm, BRING YO BIKE HELMETS
we don't have a tall ladder, or van?

daniel: we should make sure we do our installations right. so they look nice. 


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