[Mesh] Notes from 12/26 Hacknight

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 December 26th Hacknight Reposted for posterity at https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/26_December_2013 =Attendees= *MaxB, Jeremy, Jenny, Marc, Deekoo, Pete Forsyth =Updates= *Jenny and Pete brainstormed some intro flyers last week - Jenny will work on "elevator pitch" / & mission/vision today **MeshThePlanet.Org: Planet blog aggregator, calendar, directory/map [https://github.com/libremap], resources [legal, technical, graphical, historical, etc], software tools, forum? *Jeremy went through the video interviews - they look great! He and Daniel have been going through and marking good segments *Marc is debugging the last bits of the firmware & node configurator ( see this email: https://lists.sudoroom.org/pipermail/mesh/2013-December/000672.html ). Upgraded Sudo Room's internet with two new access points. Got the spectrum analyzer working on our firmware (see below) **Portable spectrum analyzer: Mac G4 battery to power the Bullet M5, mounted on a pole and hooked up to a GPS, running the stock AirOS spectrum analyzer software. *MaxB tackling web admin bug, going to write some scripts for more seamlessly incorporating firmware updates onto the build server *Deekoo has been barreling through the build scripts for OpenWRT - got it to download a build root in a secure, but not yet audit-able fashion - still security holes all the way down \o/ =ToDos Tonight= *MaxB on web admin bug [done] *MaxB writing scripts [done] *Jenny making sudomesh gravatar [done] *Jenny on mission/vision & elevator pitch & blog posts [not done] *Juul squishing bugs [partially done] *Deekoo banging on the build scripts [presumedly done] =Notes= *Bugs were squished. Marc knocked off 4/5 off his ToDos from the email (linked above). *Jenny taught Pete git, and meanwhile made a sudomesh gravatar: http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/787ec18db5a9c270fa420c8a0c49cdde.png *Pete taught Jenny how to common our media, uploading WNDW to wikimedia commons & wikisource and converting it to markdown (see below). *Will we deploy any nodes before the New Year? To be continued... =Gratuitous Link Dump= *Pete uploaded the 3rd edition of Wireless Networking in the Developing World here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wireless_Networking_in_the_Developi… and then we realized Matt had already done this: *https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wireless_Networking_in_the_Developing_World *and also on Github: https://github.com/wrought/wireless-networking-in-the-developing-world/tree… *Jenny's thesis, to go on WikiSource! - http://thevirtualcampfire.org *Network Startup Resource Center - http://nsrc.org/ *Secure peer-to-peer networking - lots of great documentation! - https://gnunet.org & https://gnunet.org/bibliography *The Oakland CORE training for emergency preparedness has morphed into this: http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/OFD/s/EmergencyPreparedness/LearnLe… *Also this: http://www.buzzfeed.com/jwherrman/millions-of-dogecoins-stolen-in-apparent-… *Video of our presentation at SFSU: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8-eLJ4lDLg&feature=youtu.be *Article on Village Telco & the Mesh Potato: http://ecopreneurist.com/2013/12/23/green-business-ideas-mesh-network-telep… ~!~ Jenny http://jennyryan.net http://sudomesh.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 ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`