[Mesh] Meeting Minutes June 11th

*July 11th Meeting Minutes [reposted here<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/11_July_2013> ] * = Agenda = *Update on crowdfunding campaign [ https://www.wepay.com/donations/oakland-community-mesh-network] *Report-back on existing mesh: Jenny on OTI's Commotion project *Firmware overview *Name brainstorm! [https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Naming] **Set tentative deadline? Three weeks? =Attendees= *Marc, Mikey, Nader, Jenny, Miguel, Jacob, Mitar, MaxB =Announcements= *We now have $2,203.00 from the WePay, and still around 0.7 Bitcoins (about $70 depending on the date) =Report-Back= *OTI's Commotion Project is currently being tested in Red Hook, Brooklyn and Detroit (3 different community meshes) - https://commotionwireless.net/ *[1] http://ulysses.detroitfuturelab.org/, [2] http://www.our-morningside.com/, [3] http://ms-mesh.org/ =What we're doing= *Mesh the east bay! (at least to start with....) *Batman-adv firmware at least for first deployment *Planning on getting bandwith donations in order to serve the internet to hosts. *Free to the "consumer" *Business ideas - local businesses could put small ads on splash page *VPN tunnels mean IPs could be hidden *TOR exit node? Limits liability =Today I learned= *https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Today_I_Learned *It would be nice to hold one on mesh networking *Introducing mesh to the public =Firmware Stuff= *New Page: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Firmware *Firmware brainstorm: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Firmware **Mesh, Public, Private **Bandwidth shaping **Remote administration (if allowed) **Web admin interface ***Change private SSID ***Status of node ***Sharing allocation **Report/status **Local services =How to Pitch to Community= *Opening up / sharing your wifi for neighbors to use *Why paying twice, at home and when on move? =Naming= *For 10$ you could vote on a name! *should it be independent of organization, geography, and hacker space? *SSIDEAL; Route-Around *Need to determine our organizational structure - non-organizationally-linked neutral name =Berkeley Co-op Folks= *Would like first to mesh the houses *Would also dig potentially creating the link between houses and the Internet Archive link in Richmond =Technological Stuffs= *VPN in kernel space: https://github.com/wlanslovenija/tunneldigger =Misc Notes= *Newer Ubiquiti firmware *CJDNS - https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns *VPN tunnels for directing mesh traffic *Look up legal liability w/ regards to traffic crossing "our" VPN *One VPN connection is enough for a largeish network *"Please choose the legal regime for your traffic" *cooperation between networks (sharing VPNs, group buys, ...) *Become a reseller, or make our own hardware =OTI network (Commotion)= * Redhood Brooklyn + Detroit * useful in New York - Sandy * Tidepools http://tidepools.co/ * now concentrating in Detroit * small mesh networks, 8-9 nodes * Open??? networks (GSM) * inflatable towers for GSM - crazy stuff http://openbts.org/ =Action Items= *TOR =Post-Meeting Discussion Groups= *wlan-slovenia & VPN etc; --------- 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 ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`