[Mesh] Meeting Minutes 7/4

Minutes as always reposted to the wiki: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/04_July_2013* * Action Items in bold below. Please take on action items and reply to this thread accordingly! :)* * * July 4th Meeting Minutes* Welcome to the Oakland Mesh Meeting: Freedom Edition. ... liberating ourselves from the telecoms since January 2013! *= New Action Items =* ** Reach out to the Berkeley folks to aim to reach the Internet Archive Richmond node (jenny)* ** Blog post on our setup of the first two nodes and describing the hardware we received (jenny)* ** Let's make a flier! Who can help? (jenny will start a thread on the list) * ** Next reportback on an active mesh - Jenny on OTI/Commotion* ** Research resilient ethernet cable (Adrian?) ** Tune the OpenWRT settings on the new nodes for RTS / CTS and ACK timing * ** Name brainstorm! Add to the "Naming" page here: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Naming* ** Website (contingent on name)* ** Splash page design* = Attendees = * Max B, Juul, Jenny, Jordan, Mitar, Adrian = Announcements = * Crowdfunding campaign is doing great with 26 days remaining: $2,053.00 (WePay), $56.92 (BitCoin) * Juul has started putting together bylaws for 501c3 status! - https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Bylaws * International Community Wireless Summit in Berlin Oct. 2-4: http://2013.wirelesssummit.org/ - ** Jenny submitted a workshop proposal and applied for travel funding = Report-backs = * Mitar from wlan-slovenia: ** Must be strategic and have many nodes ** Abundance of fiber / connectivity ** Major difficulty was getting beyond the techies and reaching the masses ** Primary selling point was to open wireless networks and choosing how much of one's bandwidth they can share, enabling connectivity across the whole city. ** Protected by connecting through a *VPN tunnel* to central servers. ** Get folks to deploy their own nodes - so they don't think of the mesh as a service provided, but rather a DIY endeavor ** Lead by example, the village / neighborhood will follow ** Point of centralization is the two guys with root access to the server who administer the nodes, firmware upgrades, etc (plz correct if incorrect) ** Focus on scalability ** Made a simple GUI for indicating router and getting an image instantly created for it = Notes = * Brainstorm on name for the mesh! ** COM - Cutting Out the Middleman ** OWN - Oakland Wireless Network ** Mitar recommends hacing the name by unaffiliated with the hackerspace and non-geographically-specific * Tax Status: ** 501(c)4 - non-tax-deductible ** 501(c)3 - can't do party politics (but can be political? - EFF is a 501(c)3!) * Social pressure to allocate bandwidth to the mesh, sharing connectivity * Adrian suggests, owning the first 100 nodes, with gradual replacement as the network grows to a full-on decentralized model * Our model as a 501c3 is to serve as a facilitator for the mesh. = Old Action Items = * Add your potential node to the map! - http://meshmap.sudoroom.org (we now have 23 potential nodes. keep em comin!) * Get batman-adv running at Hearth node, mesh with LiveLabs node * Find some tall rooftops for Adrian to test TDMA point-to-multipoint links * Research 501(c)x statuses: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Tax_Structure_Research - Marc did. --------- 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 ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`