[Mesh] Hacknight Notes 12/12/13

*A note on hacknights, flows and collaboration:* *We typically start around 7:30 with a go-around of brief introductions and updates on what we've been working on and/or what we plan to work on that night. *I'd like to suggest a Check-in around 10pm to provide opportunity for people to a) feel comfortable leaving if they want to, and b) receive feedback on whatever it is they've been working on. *Would also like to encourage people to task themselves publicly by adding Action Items to the notes *And to link dump indiscriminately! Reposted for posterity at https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/12_December_2013 - edit at will Attendees - Deekoo, Jeremy, Jenny, Maxb, Marc, Daniel, Deekoo, Xavier, Luis Updates - Jenny and Matt went to SF State to give a presentation on Sudomesh to a computer networking for business students class. Went well! It was 40 minutes long and there was a lot of eye contact! No sleeping in the back!! - For future presentations we could set up a mesh! - Internships! - Prof is interested in tinkering with 802.11s + library in a box - MaxB working on the build server & firmware generator - ready to do a new walkthrough for creating nodes - Deekoo has gotten the Nanostation working (can pick up MonkeyBrains 5GHz from 2 miles away!), Nanobridge not working, wants to do range testing - We could run the PoE off of old laptop batteries! Mounted on a pedicab! Bandwidth/speed test + spectrum analysis - Luis is working on setting up / learning about BATMAN, interested in working on client-side interfaces - Jeremy + Daniel did a bunch of video interviews this past weekend! Interested in education + outreach - Daniel applied for us to receive a donation of 3 racks, 13/14 hard drives - Jenny + Matt + Mitar spoke with Ralf from Internet Archive - Notes to be put on wiki - https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Meetings - Marc has been finishing up the node configurator, let's test it on a router tonight! - Also working on stickers with basic info such as private SSID + password, admin login info - Xavier interested in applications of mesh for activism Ideas - Add a link on the site for "I'd like to get an intro to the mesh" - Talk to technology coordinators in schools - Local applications still in need of a portal page; Luis wants to help design the frontend - Tech Support: Send or bring us your router and we'll give you a node - Daniel suggests a block party to test the range of the mesh! - Talk to people who own properties about mounting nodes on the rooftops. - Inspiration from the FNF - convinced the owner of a housing complex to provide free Wi-Fi, after which point the chronically empty apartments were filled! Checkins - Chris has a pretty sweet CAD design for a 3D printed enclosure for the Sparkys! - Deekoo tested most of our 5GHz routers - 3 Nanobridges working [Checked out one], 2 not working [plz edit with correct data] - Jenny reading Cook Report interviews w/ Altermundi & FNF folks: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Interviews_with_other_meshers#Altermundi_Int… - MaxB compiling.. - Firmware generator is ready to roll! playing nicely with the node configurator - https://github.com/sudomesh/openwrt-firmware-config - Juul tweaking node configurator - https://github.com/sudomesh/node-configurator - Scattered brainstorms Action Items - Jenny to put Internet Archive and SFSU notes on wiki: - https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/InternetArchive - https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Presentations#Professor_Sameer_Verda.27s_Wir… - Jenny update To Dos & Add Meetings/Presentations to Nav - https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/ToDos - https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Meeting - https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Presentations - Daniel & Jeremy to edit video / do more interviews [Sunday] - Marc to test node configurator on a pico - Matt and Jenny to revamp presentation Linkdump - East Bay Broadband Consortium<http://www.ebbroadband.org/action_plan.asp> - East Bay Connects helps people find affordable broadband services<http://www.eastbayconnects.com/> - MileMesh project starting up in Hoboken, NJ <http://www.milemesh.com/> - Koruza prototype can be 3D printed! (optical wireless networks aka LASERS!) <https://dev.wlan-si.net/wiki/KORUZA/Prototype> - COOK Report on the Global Free Network Movement<http://blog.altermundi.net/media/uploads/nov-dec_2013_crpp.pdf&… Jenny's Excerpts<https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Interviews_with_other_meshers#Al… - PHP Network Weathermap <http://www.network-weathermap.com> - LibreMap being actively developed :) <https://github.com/libremap> - Altermundi documentation (in Spanish) <http://docs.altermundi.net/> - Altermundi projects <https://colectivo.altermundi.net/projects> -------- 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 ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`