Reposted for posterity at: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/25_July_2013

= Agenda =
*Introductions
*Update on crowdfunding campaign [https://www.wepay.com/donations/oakland-community-mesh-network]
*What to spend money on
*Overview of the Mesh as it stands!
*Firmware progress
*Community Outreach
*Name Brainstorm
 
=Attendees=
*Marc, Chris J, Jacob, Ryan, MaxB, Jenny, Paige, Olaf + others
:Marc - decentralization, citizen science, sysadmin
:Max - Free internet! Free networks.
:Olaf: Cryptocurrency, research, etc; Coinbase; Reading up on tunneling
:Jenny – Education and community outreach; Anthropology and documentation
:Chris J – Web stuff, splash pages, interfaces; OpenWRT experienced;  community tech enthusiast
:Jacob - community outreach
:Aaron - Outreach and alliances; policy work
*All would love to learn how to flash shit and do things on the ground.
:Paige - Learning hardware, community education and outreach
:Doug - firmware, implementations of the environment, webwork [software dev, web tech]; software dev, post nexus; free wifi enthusiast
:Mitch - Likes to code!
:Mitar - Nodewatcher; python/django-based application
:Tom - abandoned hardware
:Ryan - Graphic designer
 
=Crowdfunding Campaign=
*We're $50 short of our crowd funding goal!
*UPDATE: We hit our goal of 3k! See [[Inventory]] and [[Purchases]] for details
*$2250.00 to the routers
:→ Built a mesh network in Uganda

=What to spend money on=
*We have a bunch of street level nodes and a number of pt->pt and pt->multi-pt backbone links
*Cables and housing, etc.
*Outdoor Ethernet Cable – Shielded
*Outdoor Ethernet Plugs

=Overview of the Mesh=
*The wiki is well documented

=City – coalition-ing=
*If we depend on their interests, they will shut us down
*They can't shut us down

=Firmware=
:Firmware: Max B, Marc J, and Douglas
*Quality of Service
*3+ SSIDs
*Traffic and bandwidth shaping

=Name Brainstorm=
*https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Naming
*Should we get high and try to decide? Maybe not...
*Is there an advantage to having a separate "network" name and a "group" name
*Wycelium.net
*PeoplesWifi.org

=Notes=
*Pay for the nodes
*Tunneling setup for VPN protection
*We need a coalition of lawyers!
*Firmware – to change the ssid etc – chris j
*Points – sobdraken
*There's a lot of electromagnetic noise!
*Van-eck phreaking - pointing an antenna at a CTR screen, you can reconsturct it from far away
*Can see what people are watching from the same signal on the tv via power draw
*filter behind the meter that only lets 60 cycles through
*We own the gateways between our houses! I will install this to do this - it is open hardware, with only 16Hz of data
*A smartgrid would tell you to turn off this or that when the energy grid is overwhelmed

=Local Net=
*Tidepools Map               
*Internet Archive               
*Oakland Wiki
*Local Chat
**nodejs app for chat

=Mitar's Slovenia Repo=
https://github.com/wlanslovenija/

=Community Outreach=
*https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/Oakland
*There's an awesome list of community organizations:
:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ao_Q7DQvNFT-dEdhZUJaQ3dDY2plMjMxR3BNNmJuRlE#gid=0
:If you really want to be a part of the community outreach team you could try and get in contact with some of the organizations on that list!

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