[Mesh] Action Items! & Meeting Minutes

Rad meeting tonight! Here are notes, which shall be cross-posted to the wiki: http://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh =Action Items= ==Immediate== *OpenITP Grant - throw in your thoughts! - https://pad.riseup.net/p/510penITPapp - due March 31st *Market research on 4MB routers that will run OpenWRT *Juul will research binoculars and send info to Mark (carryover item) *Testing with satellite dishes - in sudo room next week! (after the main meeting) ==Longer Term== *Send out map and work on it *Update website **Commenting on nodes (Revent, Tidepools) *Come up with a handout for going door-to-door =Attendees= Jenny, Miguel, Mark B, Bill, Jordan, with some OaklandWiki meshing ;D, =Notes= *How the site works: **Create an account and put in the MAC address of the mesh router **Allows us to build a list of all the routers on the network *openmesh firmware runs a shell script when first installed, connects to openmesh.org and our own instance, 510pen, is recognized and fed directly to the router *How the portal currently works: **Pushes the HTML to openmesh.com if it updates *How the portal could work: **Data source on the mesh, some IP, every router could use static pages (using javascript restful endpoints) *We should get more routers! 8MB preferably, 4MB might work *We'd need more CPU - WRT4GL's should work - CPU can easily be maxed out depending on size of the mesh *Installing fibre along International Blvd - a highspeed access point would make it worthwhile to shoot across the city *Research fibre in East Oakland *Mesh nodes for GSM *RanchWiFi - Solar ISP - Matt's connection *Sudo GSM! We use all the protocols at sudo!! *Old Sonic routers?? **Opt-in with Sonic? - Dane Jasper *Should we abandon OpenMesh and flash routers with our own firmware? At the very least, we should field test the firmwares out there. *OpenMesh used to use OLSR, and is proud to have switched to batman-adv *802.11s - mesh standard - what's the deal? *BattleMesh!!! 4/20 in Denmark - we should keep tabs on how that pans out. Or.. go? =Reportbacks= *Jenny followed up in #oti on weatherproof equipment Ubiquiti equipments *Jenny and Mark B presented 510pen at Open Oakland. *Follow up with Tony on Cisco connection - "how many routers do you need?" he asked at Open Oakland meeting. Mark's answer, "ideally, one in every other house." *Bill did not flash the router ;) but his Coursera course is ending soon! bOm, 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 ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`