Good meeting last night. We covered a lot of ground. I've tried to highlight action items in red below.

Wepay campaign: at 2/3ds. $1293. We have 100 mesh routers.

   

Goals of the mesh project:

• off the grid communication,

• create an alternate way to communicate. more controlled by the people

• a way for disadvantage people to get internet access

• sustainable business model

• share internet connections. everybody has to buy their own internet connection

• usable phone service.

• why are you paying comcast?

• load balancing

• access to the internet

• .oakland domain name
  

• replacing the internet not controled by the powers

• encryption by default

• low-bandwidth free internet

Name:

• sudonet mesh

• sudomesh

• confusion with the word psuedo

• 510pen

• optomesh ??

Organization:

• nonprofit

• 501c3

• paperwork

• lots of tax forms

• under noisebridge

• nonprofit isp run by volunteers

• 501c4 same benefits as 501c3

• “social welfare” organization

• still get donor tax deduction

• orgs might have bias against them

• coops

• can’t get tax deductible donations

• nonprofit where donating can get you on the board

• we need to talk to lawyers

Business models

• cost

• buying routers

• people adopt routers

• people buy routers

• couple of full time real employees

• mounting routers/antennae

• managing of  network

• bandwidth

• electricity

• advertising on splash page

• name the wifi network as the web address

• sell service to business districts

• digital bulletin boards

• skill share board

• begging for cash model

• OLPC model,

• people pay 2x for themselves and someone else

• ISPs ToS don’t allow you to share bandwidth

• get local ISPs to contribute

• monkeybrains?

• competing with Unwired, and their radio frequency

• legal advisers???

Metaplanning for node deployment

• get in touch with people that have mesh network experience

• get familiar

• look at google earth for 3d building structures

• ham license

• study cram sessions

• get in touch with that community

• aprs network by ham radio operators

• weather

• packet radio

• allows you to mount masts

• allows you to amplify wifi

• fog/rain?

• aprs.fi

Mesh protocol Openwrt

• cjdns

• new

• runs as a program

• scales ?

• encrypted by default

• untested

• batman-adv

• lower level

• efficient multicast

• no encryption

• olsr

• older

• runs as a program

• runs on a lot of devices

• more tested

• 2000-3000 node network

• every node can be part of the mesh

• windows, android, linux

• babel

• really easy??

• Create an image that you can flash on all routers, two options:

• script after boot

• web page that generates a custom compile

• Get people with experience to come talk to us

Plan for testing received hardware and inventory management

• 100 routers

• mostly ubiquity picostations

• tagging

• barcodes

• put it in a spreasheet

• etch them end

• test them all

Plan for getting the local community involved and finding people willing to adopt a node

• highschools and college students

• Community watch

• neighborhood survaillance

• generalized outreach

Action items

• form sub groups

Neighborhood choice

• San Antonio neighborhood

• we have a good partners in the community

• LOLspace/Bikery

• none of us live there

• maybe harder to do troubleshooting/outreach

• West Oakland neighborhood